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The clergy and the nobles had dominated the Estates-General throughout the Middle Ages and expected to do so in the 1789 meeting.

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Siding with the nobles, the king ordered the Estates-General to follow the medieval rules.

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Unlike Parliament, however, the Estates-General never became an independent force that limited the king’s power.

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Like the English Parliament in its early years, the Estates-General helped to increase royal power against the nobility.

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Men were still living who could recall the day when France had a real parliament, the Estates-General as it was called.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett