The Story of the French Revolution by Ernest Belfort Bax | Episode 1 |
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The French Revolution - Chapter Three
The financial extravagances of the court have been the occasion of giving articulate expression, and the remedy for which is offered to those who can read in the social contract of rousseau. The dispute between the court and the local legal councils called parliaments led to the crippling of their powers by the king. One set of these remonstrants formed themselves into a club called the breton club for the ventilation of their grievances. Such was the origin of the vast club organization, which exercised such a stupendous influence, not only in paris, but in france during the following years.
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