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    assembly of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects. It had a separate assembly for each of the three estates (clergy, nobility and commoners)...
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    (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate). It was the last of the Estates General of the Kingdom of France. Summoned...
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  • Provinces) emerged. Historically Estates General (France) (before 1789) Estates-General of 1789 (France) States-General of the Batavian Republic (Dutch...
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    The Estates General of 1560–1561 was a national meeting of the three estates of France, the clergy, nobility and commoners convoked by François II, though...
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  • through estates was the norm in Europe until the advent of popular representation beginning with the French Revolution. The Estates General of France were...
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    The Estates General of 1576 was a national meeting of the three orders of France; the clergy (First Estate), nobility (Second Estate) and common people...
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    Estates General of 1593 was a national meeting of the three orders of France that met from January to August 1593. Unlike any other Estates General of...
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    The Estates General of 1588 was a national meeting of the three orders of France; the clergy, nobility and common people. Called as a part of the concessions...
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    The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early...
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    Generalitat and the Estates General of France during the Ancien Régime. Several geographic place names are derived from the States General. In 1609, Henry...
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