By concentrating on Louis's role, the chapters on the Diamond Necklace Affair, the Assembly of Notables, the
Estates General, and the October Days provide another lens through which to see those events and the catastrophic examples of the results of Louis's indecision.
This was done in 1295 with the Model Parliament, in France in 1302 with the
Estates General, in Spain in 1476 with the Cortes de Madrigal, in Germany with the 1495 Reichstag, in Russia with the 1549 Zemski Sobor.
* Through submissions to the
Estates General in Quebec with regard to the abolition of the denominational school system in Quebec, 67% of Quebecois agreed and 88% wanted community schools notwithstanding the religion of the parents.
At the
Estates General in Blois, Henri III had both the duke of Guise and his brother Cardinal Louis assassinated.
The achievement of one side's sovereign's war aims (whether it be the Parliament, the Committee of Both Kingdoms, the Royal Council or the
Estates General in Scotland) is defined as constituting success, whether by design or through the mistakes or ineptitude of other generals.
In October 1995, Education Minister Jean Garon appointed a Commission for the
Estates General on Education (CEGE), which after 16 months of work submitted a report titled Renewing Our Education System: Ten Priority Areas.
Thus, from approximately page 50 onward, Neely provides the story of the decision of the Parlement of Paris that the
Estates General should meet in the forms of 1614 favorable to the privileged orders.
Finally in May 1788 he bowed to popular pressure and summoned the
Estates General. It was too late, the people began to revolt.
Miller does not cite Colin Lucas's perceptive 1973 observation that it was the Revolution, in separating the nobility and the third estate at the
Estates General, which made the bourgeoisie not the other way around, as "classic" Marxists argue.
In 2001, she collaborated in organizing the
Estates General of Neighborhood Women and their publication in 2002 of a national petition, Ni Putes Ni Soumises, "a manifesto of demands" (113) that was initially ignored by politicians and the media.
He was a progressive minded priest who espoused the ideals of the French Revolution, was elected representative to the
Estates General in 1789 and later to the Convention.