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

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

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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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The Estates-General arose almost at the same time as the English Parliament, to which it corresponded, but it never secured the extensive authority of that body.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton