Assembly of Notables

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The Assembly of Notables was an assembly convened on February 22, 1787 by Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the minister of finance of France. It preceded the Estates-General of 1789.

The first stage of the French Revolution was the Nobles' revolt in which the privileged orders resisted the efforts of Jacques Necker and the court to reform the state's finances. A key event associated with this stage was the Assembly of Notables. It was a council of eminent citizens of Paris and the surrounding regions.

France had borrowed heavily to finance its war effort during the American Revolution, and again to pay arrears on the original loans. A mounting debt crisis caused Calonne to convoke an assembly of notables, in hopes they would agree to a land tax. They refused, and on May 25 the assembly was dissolved.

  • Lefebvre, Georges; The French Revolution, Volume I: From its Origins to 1793 Elizabeth Moss Evanson (translator), New York, Columbia University Press (1962). ISBN 0-231-08598-2.


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