The Current Crisis in the Paris Parliament

Dies premenile and duport smelt blood in the water. Absolutism was flailing, helpless and vulnerable. Both men believed now was the time to push for an estates general. But moderates within the paris parliament held a very different view. They did not perceive the current crisis as the dying breaths of absolute monarchy. Instead they perceived it as the death of their own parliaments. The moderates reasoned that one of two outcomes would occur from continuous opposition to the crown. Either the king would find the political capital to suppress the parliaments,. or alternatively, an estates general would be caulled.

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