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In France under the Ancien Régime, the Estates General (French: États généraux [eta ʒeneʁo]) or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects.It had a separate assembly for each of the three estates (clergy, nobility and commoners), which were called and dismissed by the king.It had no true power in its own right …