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France was a kingdom at the time ruled by kings (in that century, mostly Louis XV and Louis XVI) with near-absolute power. The day-to-day management of the Government was delegated by the King to Ministers, but these were answerable to the King only. There was a fairly independent judicial system, but mostly because the King hardly ever interfered in the judicial process.

There was no national Parliament, only a number of local Parliaments in the big cities (that of Paris being the most prominent) but they had little power and met only sporadically. The three Estates that met in 1789 were rarely convened by the King, traditionally only if the King needed approval for new taxes; when they met in 1789, they hadn't been called together for over 100 years.

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