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After assessing the situation, Necker insisted that Louis XVI call together the Estates-General, a French congress that originated in the medieval period and consisted of three estates. The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate the nobility, and the Third Estate effectively the rest of French society.
A similar protest with the parlements forced Louis XVI to convoke the Estates General in 1789. In 1787 the kingâs financial minister, Etienne Brienne, attempted to push through fiscal reforms that included a new land tax.