On the eve of the meeting of the Estates General in 1789 a contemporary print showed a humble peasant whose bent back bore, lashed to him like the proverbial albatross, a fat ecclesiastic, representing the church, and a gaudily dressed noble representing the aristocracy.
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Europe: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)
January 1, 2001, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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"On the eve of the meeting of the Estates General in 1789 a contemporary print showed a humble peasant whose bent back bore, lashed to him like the proverbial albatross, a fat ecclesiastic, representing the church, and a gaudily dressed noble representing the aristocracy."
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