Just have him not summon the General Estates. If he is a competent king, he forced his reform agenda and does not need to summon the General Estates. Summoning the General Estates was the proof of his failure and inability to govern.
Just have him not summon the General Estates. If he is a competent king, he forced his reform agenda and does not need to summon the General Estates. Summoning the General Estates was the proof of his failure and inability to govern.
How would he possible improve the tax system without it though? The parlements were refusing the lits des justice. The assemblée des notables refused to comply and recommended the estates-general be called. He'd run out of options.
The parlements refused to pass his reforms because the fool of a king showed up all of a sudden and ordered them to do it.Prior to that,his financial minister almost managed to persuade the parlements into enforcing his new tax laws but they ended up getting pissed and want to defy the king after he ordered them to do it in person.
Another thing is that Louis XV curbed the power of the parlements and their ability to defy the king,but his stupid grandson restored their power because he wants to be popular with the nobles.
Final thing is that the assembly of notables could have passed the law on the condition that the royal family publish their accounts,but once again,the stupid king refused.
Couldn't they pull a palace coup though?Louis' bodyguards(the ones that have personal contact with him at all time) are all nobles--even the Swiss Guards and the Gardes Francaises didn't have as much physical contact as these guys.Basically this. Louis XVI should have never restored the Parlements in the first place. He basically started his reign with a clean slate and chose to shoot himself in the foot for some more popularity. Without the Parlements to oppose him a Sovereign could have easily passed the necessary reforms. They might cause a noble revolt a la Fronde, but the French army should be able to deal with that.
Couldn't they pull a palace coup though?Louis' bodyguards(the ones that have personal contact with him at all time) are all nobles--even the Swiss Guards and the Gardes Francaises didn't have as much physical contact as these guys.
The parlements refused to pass his reforms because the fool of a king showed up all of a sudden and ordered them to do it.Prior to that,his financial minister almost managed to persuade the parlements into enforcing his new tax laws but they ended up getting pissed and want to defy the king after he ordered them to do it in person.
Final thing is that the assembly of notables could have passed the law on the condition that the royal family publish their accounts,but once again,the stupid king refused.
Apart from an incapaciting illness that would prevent him to show off too openly his opposition to most of EG and revolutionnaries change, I see nothing.
At the point EG were to be called, the situation rotten far too deeply.
And as we have a king that while not exactly a tyrant, wasn't for giving up his political powers and refused compromise even when his supporters asked him so...The better way is to shut him up efficiently.
Sadly he wasn't a competent king. The man was an idiot. He was obsessed with hunting and had absolutely no idea about how to reform France, other than to appoint a series of fiscal incompetents who made everything worse. By 1788 he felt that he had no choice but to convoke the Estates-General.
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCcQFjAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.edu.au%2Feducation%2Ftitles%2FdownloadSamplePage%2F9781107506442%2F1257%2FChapter%25205-web.pdf&ei=hZiCVb-zC9Lz8gXugbUg&usg=AFQjCNFHsLOZT9FTmmx58egNzduVpBWZOA&bvm=bv.96041959,d.dGc&cad=rjaWhen did the financial minister do this? Do you have a source?
Again, do you have a link for this? I'd love to read up on it.
https://www.cambridge.edu.au/education/titles/.../Chapter%205-web.pdf
page 10-12 describes how close Brienne was to fixing the situation and how the king f#$ked it all up.The Assembly of Notables wanted to audit the King's spending in return for tax and he said no.When he asked the Parlement to pass his law,he turned up in person and tried to strong arm them into acquiescence when they were almost persuaded by his Brienne into acceptance.
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCcQFjAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.edu.au%2Feducation%2Ftitles%2FdownloadSamplePage%2F9781107506442%2F1257%2FChapter%25205-web.pdf&ei=hZiCVb-zC9Lz8gXugbUg&usg=AFQjCNFHsLOZT9FTmmx58egNzduVpBWZOA&bvm=bv.96041959,d.dGc&cad=rjaThanks, but that link doesn't seem to work.