To the nineteenth-century historian the French Revolution was largely a battle of ideas and its outbreak the more or less fortuitous climax to a series of political crises—the rejection of Calonne’s proposals for tax reform by the Assembly of Notables of 1787, the convocation of the Estates General, and the king’s …
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To the nineteenth-century historian the French Revolution was largely a battle of ideas and its outbreak the more or less fortuitous climax to a series of political crises—the rejection of Calonne’s proposals for tax reform by the Assembly of Notables of 1787, the convocation of the Estates General, and the king’s …