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  2. Estates of the realm - Wikipedia

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    The Second Estate (deuxieme état) was the French nobility and (technically, though not in common use) royalty, other than the monarch himself, who stood outside of the system of estates. The Second Estate is traditionally divided into noblesse d'épée ("nobility of the sword"), and noblesse de robe ("nobility of the robe"), the magisterial ...

  3. Ancien régime - Wikipedia

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    The French Revolution and the creation of modern political culture. Vol. 1, The Political Culture of Old Regime. Oxford: Pergamon Press. Behrens, C.B.A. Ancien Regime (1989) Black, Jeremy. From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fate of a Great Power (1999) Bluche, François (1993). L'Ancien Régime: Institutions et société (in French) (Livre de ...

  4. Estates General (France) - Wikipedia

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    Opening of the Estates General on 5 May 1789 in the Grands Salles des Menus-Plaisirs in Versailles. In France under the Ancien Régime, the Estates General (French: États généraux [eta ʒeneʁo]) or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects.

  5. Estates General of 1789 - Wikipedia

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    The suggestion to summon the Estates General came from the Assembly of Notables installed by the king on 22 February 1787. The Estates General had not been called since 1614. In 1787, the Parlement of Paris refused to ratify Charles Alexandre de Calonne's program of financial reform, due to the competing interests of its noble members. Calonne ...

  6. List of constitutions of France - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of France, under the Ancien Régime, was an absolute monarchy and lacked a formal constitution; the regime essentially relied on custom.That said, certain rules known as the fundamental laws of the Kingdom were outside the power of the monarch to change without further consent.

  7. States provincial (France) - Wikipedia

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    The pays d'etat (red) of ancien regime France (the pays d'imposition in yellow). In France under the ancien régime, a states (or estates) provincial (états provinciaux [eta pʁɔvɛ̃sjo]) or estates particular (états particuliers [eta paʁtikylje]) [1] (to distinguish them from the Estates General; but see § États particuliers below) was an assembly of the three estates of a province ...

  8. Pays d'états - Wikipedia

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    In red, the pays d'états in 1789. Under the Ancien Régime, a pays d'états (French pronunciation: [pei deta], lit. ' Land of states ') was a type of généralité, or fiscal and financial region where, in contrast to the pays d'election, an estates provincial or representative assembly of the three orders had retained its traditional role of negotiating the raising of taxes with the royal ...

  9. Fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France - Wikipedia

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    Les lois fondamentales de la monarchie française d'après les théoriciens de l'ancien régime [The fundamental laws of the French monarchy according to the theorists of the ancien régime] (dissertation). Bibliothèque des Ecoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome. Paris: Albert Fontemoing. OCLC 1039742074. Archived from the original on 2022-12-30