The Physiocracy of the Assembly

After dropping the bombshell that the monarchy was more than a hundred million livres in the red, cologne inexplicably refused to open the royal ledgers to scrutiny. This naturally raised suspicions that he was cooking the books for his own purp His further claim that the comte randu had been a total fraud was also taken as a self serving ploy to blame neker for deficits probably run up by cologne himself. I don't think it even occurred to him that the notables wouldn't approve the package, let alone that this would all lead to him kicked out of the ministry in disgrace.