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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.
Louis XIV required that the greater nobles attend his court (at their own expense) and in return he gave them offices with fine titles but little power. The King wanted the nobles at court so that they could not build up independent power in the provinces.ouis XIV on the Fronde. There was a prince of my own family and of great renown at the head of my enemies and a host of plots in the state. The parlements were in the habit of (and enjoyed) usurping authority, and in my court fidelity was hardly to be seen without some accompanying self-interest.