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This is derived from this thread.

What I want to know is, if French finances get bad enough that Louis XV called an Estates General roughly a quarter century ahead of OTL, what could likely follow?

JTBC -- I am looking for this thread to deal only with the effects of calling an Estates General early, not how this event could come about, or if it's plausible (though I welcome ideas on that subject in the thread linked above)
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