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Instead it seems a thing of contingencies and unforeseen consequences (not least the summoning of the Estates-General itself). (xiv) Schama resists the totalizing impulses of other narratives, the intellectual tendency to characterize the Revolution in the most general and comprehensive terms.
Schama's revolution Daniel Little 2009
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He was a member of the Breton club, the forerunner of the Jacobin club, and represented the Third Estate in the Estates-General.
Names 2007
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Instead it seems a thing of contingencies and unforeseen consequences (not least the summoning of the Estates-General itself). (xiv) Schama resists the totalizing impulses of other narratives, the intellectual tendency to characterize the Revolution in the most general and comprehensive terms.
Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009
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At the convocation of the Estates-General he joined the Third Estate, the citizens, while he was also a member of the second estate which he headed the liberal minorty.
Archive 2007-09-23 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Approximately one hundred years later, Sir Walter Scott looked back on the period leading up to the fateful meeting of the Estates-General (on May 5, 1789), and wondered at the provoking behavior of Louis XVI's government:
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Estates-General opened the representatives of San Domingo had no legal standing.
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Estates-General to the principles of equality and liberty, and to the ability and energy of the little group of intellectual leaders who made up the Society of Friends of the Blacks.
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The nation had no Parliament to represent it and voice its demands, for the Estates-General [7] had not been summoned since 1614 A.D.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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Estates-General, which had been promised for 1792.
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In the National Assembly the contest between Friends of the Blacks and defenders of slavery began in connection with the application of a delegation for admission to the Estates-General as representatives of
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