Election of representatives to the Estates–General. One of the traditions of the Estates–General was to request cahiers de doléances or lists of grievances from the realm. In accordance with this tradition, the drawing up of the cahiers had been officially decreed on 24 January. (The cahiers number in the thousands and constitute one of our richest sources of historical information about late eighteenth–century France.)

“Election of representatives to the Estates–General. One of the traditions of the Estates–General was to request cahiers de doléances or lists of grievances from the realm. In accordance with this tradition, the drawing up of the cahiers had been officially decreed on 24 January. (The cahiers number in the thousands and constitute one of our richest sources of historical information about late eighteenth–century France.),” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed May 17, 2024, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/764.