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Overture to Revolution - The 1787 Assembly of Notables and the Crisis of France's Old Regime (Hardcover)
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Overture to Revolution - The 1787 Assembly of Notables and the Crisis of France's Old Regime (Hardcover)
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The Assembly of Notables which met between 22 February and 25 May
1787 was a major turning point in French, even world history: it
was the first link in an unbroken chain which led to the French
Revolution, which itself formed the template for the modern world.
The reform programme which finance minister Calonne, with the full
backing of Louis XVI, presented to a hand-picked Assembly of
Notables would have transformed France. She would have ended up
with a Napoleonic system: equality without liberty. Since that is
what she got in the end, after wading through oceans of blood, it
might have been better if she had taken the shorter route. Liberty,
however, in 1787 was valued more highly than equality and the
Notables mercilessly exploited this preference to defeat Calonne
and the king. By 1789, equality was back on the agenda and remained
there through the vicissitudes of the coming years - but too late
for Calonne (who was in exile) or for the king, who never recovered
from the blow the Notables had dealt him.
In the light of modern scholarship and the latest archival
information, John Hardman integrates the various facets of this
seminal assembly, which are often considered in isolation (the
king, the royal council, the Notables, the role of Necker, and that
of public opinion) into a lucid analytical narrative, interspersed
with the Notables' critique of Calonne's measures as they were
successively presented to them.
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