The Assembly of Notables The Assembly of Notables was the second advisory council created to advise the French monarchy. It was created in the sixteenth century. It had significant power when it was called for but was only meant to look after the interests of the upper classes of French ...
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, controller-général des finances to Louis XVI from November 1783 to April 1787, provides the structuring centre to John Hardman's high political account of the Assembly of Notables of 1787. Calonne offers more than an optic through which the political stakes of the...
National Assembly, any of various historical French parliaments or houses of parliament. From June 17 to July 9, 1789, it was the name of the revolutionary assembly formed by representatives of the Third Estate; thereafter (until replaced by the Legislat
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès was a churchman and constitutional theorist whose concept of popular sovereignty guided the National Assembly in its struggle against the monarchy and nobility during the opening months of the French Revolution. He later played a