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starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 days agoThey did try to negotiate, though. It’s where left wing and right wing comes from. The left wing in parliament was against the king, the right wing were royalist.
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starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 days agoThey did try to negotiate, though. It’s where left wing and right wing comes from. The left wing in parliament was against the king, the right wing were royalist.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2 days ago
I’m going to say yes and no to that one. At the time they establish forevermore what is left-wing and what is right-wing, we’re past the estates general being called and I think also past the tennis court oath. For me, that’s already revolutionary times, they just haven’t cut Louie’s head off yet.
Before that, I don’t think there was much exchange between the second and the third estate. I am sure there were nobles who were willing to change things around. But it also wasn’t a case where the second and the third estate, and maybe even the king, could agree on something and that would’ve been the end of that. France was riddled by internal fiefdoms with their own dumb trumpian tariffs. Any relief for the third would have had to involve rationalizing the economy and there were powerful lobbies (like the farmer general) who wouldn’t like that. Plus, people were hungry and hungry people don’t think straight. And Louie would’ve preferred to stick his head in the sand anyway and other than maybe Necker none of his ministers satisfied the requirements of “forward looking.”