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3.5- The Assembly of Notables

Revolutions

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The Land Tax and the Church's Debt Liquidation

The notables were eyeing a new order where aristocratic led provincial assemblies would start wielding real power at the expens of what was obviously an incompetent central ministry. The last major complaint about the assemblies came from men representing the pa de ta generality. These guys already enjoyed the right to call their estates provincial, a right that allowed them to negotiate better deals with the crown than subjects living in the pa delexion regions. So like i say, these complaints are kind of enlightened self interest and then just naked self interest. A further source of tension when discussing the land tax was what to do about church property. In short, the answer turned out to be the church would accept taxation on its

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