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How important was the Revolt of the Nobles in forcing Louis XVI to call an…

- - - - 7 years war costed 1.3 billion livres
      - 68% of expenditures on French budget was spent on war
      - Because of the American war of independence french debt rose to 3.3 Billion Livres
    - - rapid population increase from 21.5 mil in 1700 to 27 mil in 1730
      - John Laws borrowing money scheme failed because investments in Louisiana failed
    - - Calonne attempted to increase tax on 1st and 2nd estates but failed e.g land and landowners tax
  - - - failure to reform worsened debt and increased tensions between the nobility and the monarchy
      - emphasis on taxation unified 1st and 2nd estates witch lead to the revolt on the nobles
      - Necker's compte rendu (budget statement) was inaccurate and suggested a surplus of 10 million livres which lead to notables viewing Calonne's reforms as unnecessary
        
        Calonne also ignored criticisms of Assembly of Notables which increased tensions
- - - - Royal officials were mobbed in Paris and Toulouse
      - Marie Antoinette wrote to her brother about the breakdown of royal order
      - Royal troops attacked on "day of Tiles" June 1788
    - - Church only offered 1/4 of the Don Gratuit requested by Brienne - June 1788
      - Liberal Nobility and Leading Bourgeoise came together to demand the end of fiscal (monetary) privileges
    - - Without being able to implant new taxes Brienne suspended payments from the royal treasury and the short term loans dried up
      - He saw he had no choice but to bring forward the calling of estates general
  - - - Meaning the threat would have petered out if left alone and posed no real threat to Louis's reign
    - - meaning the The urgency of debt and the severity of the financial crisis facing France left Louis with little room to manoeuvre, forcing his hand in calling the Estates-General
- - - - The ideas of the philosophes
        
        Fundamental laws of the kingdom
        
        couldn't be changed without consent of Estates general
        
        Introduction of ideas of challenging the monarchy
        
        However influence was mostly confined to Paris
        
        "People were France not the king" Rousseau
        
        Paris Parliament rejected Calonne's tax reforms
        
        accusations of ministerial despotism,
        
        Ideas have started to spread to provincial regions such as the day of the tiles
        
        Rousseau
        
        wanted liberty and equality based on the will of the people
        
        Paris parliament acting on behalf of the will of the people