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Estates General
or Estates‑General
noun
, French History.
- the States-General.
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The Estates General were accordingly summoned to meet on May 1, 1789.
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The committee from the Estates General, however, did not wait for this part of the celebration.
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Punctually at that moment a delegation appeared from across the way, from the Estates General.
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In 1439 the Estates General approved a plan devised by the king, for putting an end to this evil.
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The Estates General, after hearing a statement of the case from one of Philip's lawyers, agreed to support their monarch.
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