The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
338 Chapter XIV Calonne, alarmed, drew up a comprehensive set of measures. His ideas were es- sentially those of Turgot, but he ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 339 sent the Third Estate, and they included over forty of the very parlementaires that Calonne was ...
340 Chapter XIV King is only a national treasurer, and “what is not used for the common good be- longs to the citizens.” This wa ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 341 ing May 8, 1788.^12 By far the greatest number appeared in provincial towns, now roused to a hig ...
342 Chapter XIV ters in office from 1718 to 1789 only three were not nobly born; of these, Dubois was a cardinal, Sartine a none ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 343 These short- lived provincial assemblies, an experiment that led nowhere, at least advanced the ...
344 Chapter XIV North of Provence, in Dauphiny, much the same happened, with significant dif- ferences. The Parlement of Grenobl ...
The Aristocratic Resurgence 345 to Versailles in 1789 were to transfer these methods to the national stage, and contribute to th ...
346 Chapter XIV should take part in the operations of government. They did not agree on how this was to be done. Were existing c ...
CHAPTER XV THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: THE EXPLOSION OF 1789 You will see that these are materials for a superb edifice. —THOMAS JEFF ...
348 Chapter XV constitution,” he wrote to Madison in November.^1 He was having discussions with Lafayette about a French declara ...
The Explosion of 1789 349 course to which no acceptable alternative seems to exist. If their behavior becomes abnormal, it is be ...
350 Chapter XV the modern theory of the democratic state) that the country did not, strictly speak- ing, “consent” to taxation; ...
The Explosion of 1789 351 aside, when the Parlement of Paris, on its reinstatement, made it a first order of business to declare ...
352 Chapter XV 1788, these things seem to have come to the surface. The class issue was politi- cized; it seemed possible to do ...
The Explosion of 1789 353 their ideas and discover how many others there were who agreed with them. Each meeting was a little sc ...
354 Chapter XV appointed permanent committees of correspondence to remain in touch with the deputies. Electoral organization in ...
The Explosion of 1789 355 domestic servants and other dependents, who most willingly accepted the preemi- nence of the nobility. ...
356 Chapter XV by a few noblemen and a good many priests, was obviously in a revolutionary frame of mind. The King was indeed ir ...
The Explosion of 1789 357 high official in the naval administration, refused to accept the royal peace offering, and insisted on ...
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