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    In France under the Ancien Régime, the Estates General (French: États généraux [eta ʒeneʁo]) or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly...
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    subjected to the system of commendatory abbots. Geoffroy de Billy, later député aux états-généraux for the region of Blois from 1576 to 1577, became abbot...
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    and the agreement was ratified by the Estates-General (French: Les États-Généraux). On 22 March 1421 Henry V's progress in his French campaign experienced...
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    (University of Chicago Press, 1984) p.592 Roger Chartier, "À propos des États généraux de 1614" ("About the States General of 1614"), in Revue d'histoire moderne...
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