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So as most of you know, in his last years King Louis XV began a reform program designed to break the power of the parlements and reform the tax system, reforms that seemed to be going well. However, when he died Louis XVI discontinued them due to their unpopularity among the nobles and clerics, dismissing his grandfather's ministers and appointing replacements of a weaker quality. So what if Louis XVI had been persuaded to continue the reforms and keep the ministers on? Would early, successful reforms enable France to avoid a revolution or was it inevitable by the time Louis XVI came to the throne?
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