Excerpt from Recueil de Documents Relatifs à la Convocation des États Généraux de 1789, Vol. 1
Cette complexité des institutions, que la convocation des États généraux mit ou remit en activité, nous forcera à entrer dans des détails, et cette introduction ne sera pas aussi brève que nous le voudrions nous tâcherons du moins de ne rien dire qui ne soit indispensable à l'intelligence des textes qu'on va lire.
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