The Aristocratic Revolt Flashcards
Calonne to Necker:
“The only effective remedy… [is] by recasting all that is unsound in [the] constitution”
Assembly of Notables created in…
22 February 1787
The Assembly consisted of … notables and … non notables
144, 10
Assembly dismissed in …
Late May 1787
Doyle on Parlement de Paris:
“They were bale to delay and obstruct government policy.. [and] they had developed this technique into a major vehicle of opposition”
Saint-Etienne said that the nation saw the parliaments as…
IMPORTANT QUOTE
“a barrier to depotism of which everyone was weary”
Brienne presented tax reform to the Parliament, which were rejected on the …
2nd July 1787
Louis XVI issues a lit de justice to force the Parliament to approve of Brienne’s idea in…
6th August 1787
Parlement exiled to Troyes…
15 August 1787
Guillaume de Lamoignon said:
“The Parliament of Paris… is the only body that has the right to speak; but let there be no illusion that if any citizens had this right, it would make the same use of it.. it is the nation that the king responds when he responds to the Parliament”
Louis XVI said in response to the Duc d’Orleans
“That is of no importance to me.. it is legal because I will it”
The day of Tiles was:
10 June 1788
Schama on the day of tiles
“Signified the breakdown of royal authority…It warned the elite… that there was an unpredictable price to be paid for their encouragement of riot… and it delivered the initiative for further political action into the hands of a younger, more radical group”
King calls the Estates-General because he has only … left in the bank
400,000
Schama on bankruptcy…
The king had “enough money for the government to function for one afternoon”
