You’re going tonhave to risk it. If you don’t give an inch you won’t lose a mile but the entire distance. France cannot continue without drastic reform. If its financial position was better then you could talk about not giving in on points. But its not. You’re staring down national insolvency. Right. Now.
Except no, that isn’t true at all, and is based on outdated views of the revolution. Most of the Second Estate did agree that some change was needed, ESPECIALLY among the notables, who were not reliant on their tax exemptions for solvency. The largest resistance in the second estate were from former Third Estate men who had purchased their way into the Second.
The First Estate was also not nearly universally opposed to reform, as many of them were local priests who disagreed greatly with upper level clergy about affairs. What turned hoth these groups decisively against the revolution later was when the nutty side of the 3rd Estate got into power and decided that alienating, and then murdering, all of their opposition was the solution to every problem.