HTST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jacques Necker, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Tennis Court Oath
7 Apr 2015
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Main factors: absence of traditional institutions capable of solving france"s problems, debt, rise of the middle class, education and enlightenment, poverty ideals. Louis xvi the decline and fall of the monarchy: antithesis of louis xiv 1643-1715, who acted like a king , virile, aristocratic bully. To handle complex issues the system must be idiot proof: england- cabinet, national debt, back of england, parliament, france, directors of general of finance (jacques turgot and. Charles alexandre de calonne: cut government spending, create a system of free trade, authorize the sale of church property, equalization of salt and tobacco taxes, establish a universal land tax. Estates general 1789: jacques necker to appease the press, representatives chosen by election based on population , 1201 delegates, including 291 nobles, 300 clergy and 610 members of the third estate to cahiers de doleances. No parliament no history no rules: enlightenment ideals, books of grievances cashiers de doleances , constitutional monarchy with estates general.
