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The Dauphin replied to these demands evasively, and a few days later left for Metz, 121 How France is Governed leaving Paris in a state of fermentation. When he returned he was again obliged to convoke the States. They met in the month of February, and in order to satisfy them the Dauphin was obliged to sign, in March, 1357, a great ordinance of administrative and financial reform, which was already touched by a kind of demo- cratic spirit. Unfortunately dissensions between the Estates ensued ;... violent language was ex- changed, and intrigues had crept into the assembly. As, on the other hand, they had to play a very ungrateful part in the eyes of the nation, having to levy heavy war taxes, and as in attacking abuses they were jeopardizing many interests, they quickly became unpopular in the provinces. The deputies of the " good towns, " moreover, found the journey to Paris long and costly, so much so that at subsequent assemblies the members were far less numerous. The col- laboration of the King and the nation had been regarded, in an hour of terrible crisis, as neces- sary to the public safety.
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