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Procès-verbal des séances des députés des Communes, depuis le 12 juin 1789 jusqu’au 17 juin, jour de la Constitution en Assemblée Nationale
On the 17th of June 1789, the Tiers-Etat dediced to form a National Assembly (491 yes against 90 no), with the power of collecting taxes and managing the national debt.
OUVERTURE DES ETATS-GENERAUX A VERSAILLES.5 MAI 1789 - Auguste Couder
The Estates-General (or States-General) of 1789 (États-Généraux de 1789) was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the nobility, the church, and the common people. Summoned by King Louis XVI to propose solutions to his government’s financial problems, the Estates-General sat for several weeks in May and June 1789 but came to an impasse as the three estates clashed over their respective powers. It was brought to an end when many members of the Third Estate formed themselves into a National Assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution.
Procès-verbal des états-généraux tenus à Tours du 6 au 14 avril 1468 en présence du roi Louis XI.
The general Estates called in by Louis XI refused to dismember Normandy for the brother’s King, Charles of France, and decided the appanages would only procure a life annuity.
Etats généraux réunis par Louis XIII dans la salle de l’hôtel du Petit-Bourbon au Louvre, 27 octobre 1614
Louis XIII ascended to the throne in 1610 at the age of eight-and-a-half, upon the assassination of his father. His mother, Marie de’ Medici, acted as Regent until Louis XIII came of age at thirteen but she was not, however, able to prevent rebellion by nobles like Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé, the next-in-line to the throne. Marie agreed to call an Estates General assembly to address Condé’s grievances.
This Estates General assembly was delayed until Louis XIII formally came of age on his thirteenth birthday. Although Louis’s coming-of-age formally ended Marie’s Regency, she remained the de facto ruler of France. The Estates General accomplished little, spending its time discussing the relationship of France to the Papacy and the venality of offices, but not reaching any resolutions.
Robert Le Coq, dans une diatribe contre les officiers du roi, XVe siècle, Grandes Chroniques de France
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Robert le Coq was a French bishop and councillor.
Le Coq belonged to a bourgeois family of Orléans, where he first attended school before coming to Paris. In Paris he became advocate to the parlement (1347); then John II appointed him master of requests, and in 1351, a year during which he received many other honors, he became bishop of Laon.
At the meeting of the estates which opened in Paris in October 1356 le Coq played a leading role and was one of the most outspoken of the orators, especially when petitions were presented to the dauphin Charles, denouncing the bad government of the realm and demanding the banishment of the royal councillors. Soon, however, the credit of the estates having gone down, he withdrew to his diocese, but at the request of the bourgeois of Paris he speedily returned. The king of Navarre had succeeded in escaping from prison and had entered Paris, where his party was in the ascendant; and Robert le Coq became the most powerful person in his council. No one dared to contradict him, and he brought into it whom he pleased. He did not scruple to reveal to the king of Navarre secret deliberations, but his fortune soon turned. He ran great danger at the estates of Compiègne in May 1358, where his dismissal was demanded, and he had to flee to Saint-Denis, where Charles the Bad and Étienne Marcel came to find him. After the death of Marcel, he tried, unsuccessfully, to deliver Laon, his episcopal town, to the king of Navarre, and he was excluded from the amnesty promised in the treaty of Calais (1360) by King John to the partisans of Charles the Bad. His temporalities had been seized, and he was obliged to flee from France. In 1363, thanks to the support of the king of Navarre, he was given the bishopric of Calahorra in the kingdom of Aragon, which he administered until his death in 1373.
