1788
Louis XVI convokes the Estates General for 1789
Faced with a fiscal crisis after the failure of reforms in 1787, Louis XVI called the Estates General, which had not met since 1614, as a last attempt to approve new taxes.
1788
Faced with a fiscal crisis after the failure of reforms in 1787, Louis XVI called the Estates General, which had not met since 1614, as a last attempt to approve new taxes.