WHAT WAS THE ESTATES-GENERAL AND WHY DID FRENCH MONARCHS NOT WANT TO CALL THIS BODY TOGETHER FOR BUSINESS?

The first Estates-General was gathered by King Philip IV in 1302 during a conflict with the Pope. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Estates-General was convened sporadically, usually to obtain political, financial or military support from the Three Estates. The last Estates-General before the French Revolution was held in 1614

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the estates general was a representative body consisting of three estates, the first estate (clergy), second estate (nobility), third estate (commoners). the french monarch did not want to call the body together because they were extremely divided and the commoners had very little rights/political and social authority

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