The Crisis of the French Monarchy
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| What happened on the Eve of the French Revolution? | The interest and payments on the royal debt amounted to just over one-half of the entire budget.
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| In what year, was Louis XV appointed Rene Maupeou as chancellor? | 1770
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| Who was Rene Maupeou? | He abolished the parlements and exiled their members to different parts of the country.
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| During the second half of the eighteenth century... | French nobles and professional and commercial classes all had the same goals and interests about the administrative reform that would support economic growth.
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| How did the Parlements portray the French monarchy? | The parlements portrayed the monarchy as despotic, acting arbitrarily in defiance of the law.
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| Who was Marie Antoinette and what did she gain a reputation of? | She was the wife of Louis XVI and she gained a reputation of sexually misconduct and extravagance.
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| Who was Jacques Necker and what did he want to do? | He was a royal director-general of finances and he argued that the budget was in surplus, when American expenditures were removed from the American war.
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| What did Charles Alexandre de Calonne encourage? | 1)Internal trade 2)Lower some taxes such as gabelle on salt 3)To transform the corvee, the peasant’s labor service on public works into money payments 4 He wanted to impose a tax in which all landowners would have to pay no matter their social status.
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| What happened in February 1787? | Calonne met with an Assembly of Notables, to gain support of his new ideas, and the assembly refused it.
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| What did Etienne Charles Lomenie de Brienne do? | Brienne appealed to the Assembly of the Clergy to approve a large subsidy, which was refused
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| What happened in the Summer of 1788? | Bankers refused to extend short-term credit to the government
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| In July 1788... | The King, through Brienne, agreed to convoke the Estates General in the next year.
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