An Assembly of Notables (French: Assemblée des notables) was a group of high-ranking nobles, ecclesiastics, and state functionaries convened by the King...

The 1596 Assembly of Notables (French: Assemblée des notables de 1583) was a gathering of many important French nobles, prelates, financial officials and...

The 1560 Assembly of Notables (French: Assemblée des notables de 1560) was a gathering of the political elite of the kingdom of France from 21 to 26 August...

The 1583 Assembly of Notables (French: Assemblée des notables de 1583) was a gathering of much of the political elite of the kingdom of France in addition...

Napoleon I to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by an assembly of Jewish notables in answer to the twelve questions submitted to it by the government...

democratic. The meeting of notables advised the prince to arrange the election for a Norwegian Constituent Assembly to decide the form of government and eventually...

and the Assembly of Notables. Realizing that the Parlement of Paris would never agree to reform, Calonne handpicked an Assembly of Notables in 1787 to...

signaled the outbreak of the French Revolution. The suggestion to summon the Estates General came from the Assembly of Notables installed by the king...

themselves for the decisive siege of Yorktown. Lafayette returned to France and was appointed to the Assembly of Notables in 1787, convened in response to...

arranged a Mexican Assembly of Notables to declare the establishment of the Second Mexican Empire in July 1863, putting an end to the era of the Second Federal...

instituting anything new. In the Assembly of Notables of 1787, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette had used National Assembly and Estates General synonymously...

affecting the kingdom, he was among those advocating for an Assembly of Notables. The Assembly in turn called for a Estates General, which L'Hôpital opened...

1788, a second Assembly of Notables was convened by Jacques Necker, to consider the makeup of the next Estates-General. The Parlement of Paris recommended...

ordonnance of 1629 (Code Michau), drawn up in accordance with the cahiers of 1614 and with the observations of various assemblies of notables that followed...

outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French writer and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836). Written during the Assembly of Notables between...

Major, J. Russell (1974). "Bellièvre, Sully, and the Assembly of Notables of 1596". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 64 2. Moote, A....

Controller-General of Finances, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, at the urging of Vergennes, to call a session of the Assembly of Notables, after a hiatus of 160 years...

by the Assembly of Notables in answer to the twelve questions submitted to it by the government. It did not follow the halakhic procedures of the traditional...

among those who pressured for the calling of an Assembly of Notables in late 1560. When the assembly met at Fontainebleau, hostility emerged between Coligny...

crown was created upon the decree of the Assembly of Notables in 1863 for the Second Mexican Empire. The crown of the First Mexican Empire was made for...

such as the 1787 Assembly of Notables, which he used as a platform to advocate liberal reforms. This style was held by the wife of Monsieur le Prince...

nobility via an Assembly of Notables. However, the nobility refused to help—their power and influence had been steadily reduced since the reign of Louis XIV—and...

Archbishop of Paris should at least believe in God!'. In 1787, in the Assembly of Notables, Loménie de Brienne led the opposition to the fiscal policy of Calonne...

problems of the crown had not yet gone away, and desiring to create a more definitive solution, the Guise oversaw the calling of an Assembly of Notables. Conscious...

spending to "buy" the country's way out of debt. Again this failed, so Louis convoked the Assembly of Notables in 1787 to discuss a revolutionary new fiscal...

reported estate of a person. In the Medieval Kingdom of Portugal, the "Cortes" was an assembly of representatives of the estates of the realm – the nobility...

caliphate had just been abolished. On 5 June 1924 at a meeting of the Assembly of Notables in Riyadh, all present urged Ibn Saud to declare jihad on the...

The Senate of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: مجلس أعيان, Heyet-i Ayan or Meclis-i Ayan; Turkish: Ayan Meclisi; lit. "Assembly of Notables"; French:...

fiscal reform to break the cycle of expedients upon which he had relied. To this end he summoned an Assembly of Notables which met from November 1583 to...

wedding of their only daughter Germaine in January 1786. The impending national bankruptcy of France caused Calonne to convene an Assembly of notables under...