By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to ... recognized that a crisis loomed. He convened the Estates-General, made up of the Roman Catholic clergy (the First Estate) the nobility ...
From big cities like France's Marseille, to smaller towns in Normandy, people are rejoicing as their local Catholic heritage ...
The Estates General, the body meant to represent the whole of the people, had not met for 175 years. Most of France belonged to the Third Estate (the commoners), which did not feel their ...
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