HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - War Of The First Coalition, Charles Alexandre De Calonne
Document Summary
France under louis xv was in a constant state of financial crisis. Crisis = worse by the huge debts contracted to finance the 7yw. Defeat = financially exhausted and with a huge debt. Increased tensions between the king and the aristocracy, particularly in the parlements, the courts of the french judicial system. Magistrates within the parlements began to refuse to publish royal decrees in an effort to hamstring the royal government. Louis xvi - 1774 was heir to a divided kingdom deeply in debt. 1783 appoints charles de calonne as financial minister. 1787 assembly of notables convenes, rejects calonne"s debt-relief proposals. The new king made the situation worse by committing france to yet another costly war, the american revolution. In desperation, louis xvi agreed to call the estates general in 1789 to deal with the fiscal crisis. The estates general represented the three orders or estates of. French society the clergy, the nobility and the commoners.
