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Why did the estates general of 1789 end in failure?

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The First and Second Estates disrupted the assembly because they could not agree.

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The simplest answer to this question is that by the summer of 1789, when Louis XVI summoned the Estates-General, the fiscal crisis that beset France in the late eighteenth century was probably too far gone to be salvaged

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