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After assessing the situation, Necker insisted that Louis XVI call together the Estates-General, a French congress that originated in the medieval period and consisted of three estates. The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate the nobility, and the Third Estate effectively the rest of French society.
When Louis XVI summoned the Estates General for 1789, many considered it a revolution, a sign that his monarchical power had collapsed. Between 1614 and the late 1780s the kings of France tried to forget the Estates General. To summon the assembly would be a sign their absolutist monarchy was no longer absolute.