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On May 5, 1789, I convened the Estates-General at Versailles, not out of revolutionary zeal, but as a last resort to salvage royal authority amid bankruptcy and bread riots. I had approved the abolition of serfdom in royal domains, commissioned the first national census, and authorized Turgot’s grain liberalization, reforms that alienated nobles and bakers alike. My signature appears on the Edict of Versailles granting civil rights to Protestants, a quiet rupture with centuries of Catholic supremacy. Yet my greatest act of sovereignty was also my undoing: I permitted the National Assembly to form, then hesitated for weeks before recognizing it, each delay deepening the chasm between throne and people. I kept meticulous records of my daily hunts, not as idle ritual but as a desperate anchor to order in a world unraveling. This wasn’t weakness alone, it was the exhaustion of a man trained to rule by divine right trying, haltingly, to govern by reason.
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