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The first Estates General — The assembly of the three orders gathered in 1302
A king short of money and at war with a pope summoned the representatives of the three orders for the first time, and asked them to back him. They did. The assembly he invented to justify himself would, nearly five centuries later, cost one of his successors the throne. (Editorial synthesis)
The first Estates General took place in Paris. (source: Larousse)
The first Estates General ended in public opinion associated with the crown’s political decisions in the king’s conflict with the pope. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
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