History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Seigneurial System Of New France, Great Fear, Assignat

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1401E
• Professor: Pierre Reynard

Document Summary

1792: anti-hapsburg rebellions in hungary and in the southern (belgian) low. A calling for a meeting of the estates general. When the monarchy found themselves facing problems, he would call on representatives form members of the three estates: only the guidance of the three estates could pull the country out of its troubles. The monarchy refused to call the estates general: it could be a good thing or a bad thing for the monarch, the last gathering of the estates general happened in 1614. The people didn"t fully understand what it did. They did understand that all three estates would be represented. Not sure what they are being represented for or why. Did not know how it was going to be shaped or their role: the amount of people involved, the amount from each estate and the power that they would have. They people did not know how to make the monarch call an estates general.