In France under the ancien régime , a states provincial or estates provincial ( états provinciaux ) was an assembly of the three estates of a province, "regularly constituted, periodically convoked and possessing certain political and administrative functions, of which the main one was to vote on the impôt ". Only the pays d'état had rights to such estates. This arose from the specific legal conditions of their historical incorporation into the royal domain (e.g., Burgundy, Foix, Languedoc) or into France itself (e.g., Béarn, Corsica, Dauphiné).
4-609: States Provincial may refer to: States Provincial (France) , assembly of a province in ancien regime France Provincial council (Netherlands) , Provinciale Staten in Dutch, the elected assembly of a province of the Netherlands Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title States Provincial . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
8-726: The états particuliers ("estates particular"). For example, in Burgundy the counties ( comtés ) of Auxerre , Bar-sur-Seine , Charolais and the Mâconnais each had their own états particuliers in the early modern period. These would send representatives to the Burgundian états provinciaux in Dijon. Only the Mâconnais retained its own états in 1789; the rest had been absorbed into the Burgundian estates general. The impôts were
12-457: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=States_Provincial&oldid=992649579 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages States Provincial (France) Within a pays d'état , regions could have their own particular estates,
16-400: The provincial estates' main preoccupation and raison d'être throughout the ancien régime . Their formal assent to the impôts was generally accompanied by the drafting of complaints to send to the king or his councils. In contrast to the pays d'état , any area where impôts were fixed by the king's representatives (known as the élus ) were known as pays d'élection . This distinction
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