In February 1787 his finance minister, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, convened an Assembly of Notables, a group of nobles, clergy, bourgeoisie, and bureaucrats selected in order to bypass the local parliaments.

This group was asked to approve a new land tax that would, for the first time, include a tax on the property of nobles and clergy.

Soon, the right to choose the monarch was settled on an exclusive group of princes, and the procedure of seeking the approval of the remaining nobles was abandoned.

As the result of the battle, the Seven Boyars, a group of Russian nobles, deposed the tsar Vasily Shuysky on, and recognized the Polish prince Władysław IV Vasa as the Tsar of Russia on.

* 1444 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.

This group moved easily between Welsh and English societies and languages, occupying important offices for the Marcher Lords while maintaining their position as uchelwyr — nobles descended from the pre-conquest Welsh royal dynasties — in traditional Welsh society.

The Prussian Confederation (, ) was an organization formed in 1440 by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia to oppose the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

On 14 March 1440, a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 Prussian cities, under the leadership of the Hanseatic cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), and Thorn ( Toruń ), founded the Prussian Confederation in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).

In December, a small group of nobles assassinated Rasputin and in January 1917 the Tsar's uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas, was asked indirectly by Prince Lvov whether he would be prepared to take over the throne from his nephew, Tsar Nicholas II.

A group of nobles, led by Lithuanian magnates including Duke Michael Wiśniowiecki ( the former Lithuanian grand chancellor nominated by Augustus II ), crossed the Vistula River to Praga and the protection of Russian troops.

A group of nobles supporting Stanisław formed the Confederation of Dzikow late in 1734, and under their commander, Adam Tarło, tried to fight the Russians and Saxons, but their efforts were ineffective.

In September 935 ( in older sources 929 ) a group of nobles — allied with Wenceslaus ' younger brother Boleslav — plotted to kill the prince.

One of the few untitled servitors of George III to escape this fate was the treasurer Qutlu Arslan who now led a group of nobles and wealthy citizens in a struggle to limit the royal authority by creating a new council, karavi, whose members would alone deliberate and decide policy.

* A group of Hungarian nobles help Charles III of Naples to overthrow Queen Mary as ruler of Hungary and Croatia.

The Staufens, in addition to claiming the private Salian lands which clearly fell to them, also claimed all of the crown lands gained under Henry IV and Henry V. Lothair's attempts to seize the crown lands following approval from a group of nobles meeting in Regensburg provoked Staufen reaction.

In 1320, the Declaration of Arbroath was sent by a group of Scottish nobles to the Pope affirming Scottish independence from England.

Edward III also had the support of a group of Scottish nobles, led by Balliol and Henry Beaumont, known as the ' Disinherited.

In 1252, a group of nobles that could witness and support deeds, known as consuls et cives Solodorenses, first appears in the town.

* The Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia has a crown, presented to Prince Philippe of Araucania in 1986 by a group of Araucanian nobles.

As a result, Balash was removed by a group of nobles and priests and Kavadh was installed as emperor.

Following the death of Bahram II in 293 CE, Bahram III was proclaimed king in Fārs by a group of nobles led by Wahnam and supported by Adurfarrobay, King of Mesan.

In March 1560 a group of disaffected nobles ( led by Jean du Barry, seigneur de la Renaudie ) attempted to abduct the young Francis II and eliminate the Guise faction.

He subsequently joined the Lords of the Congregation, a group of Protestant nobles who were against the marriage of the young, Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Dauphin of France ( later to become Francois II of France ), but betrayed their plans.

A number of Persian nobles discovered that their new ruler was an impostor, and a group of seven nobles formed a plot to kill him.

Twenty years before a group of Easterners had bought out the Haskell claims in the rocky hills south of Grass Valley.

From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.

Finally, as time began to run out, he headed into Ormoc and glide-bombed a group of houses that Intelligence had thought might contain Japanese supplies.

Since then, and since the pure grain had gotten him divorced from every decent -- and even indecent -- group from Greenwich Village to the Embarcadero, he had become a sucker-rolling freight-jumper.

During the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

The Gross group had been formed for the express purpose of advising the Secretary General.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

Peter Marshall noted that Bang-Jensen had later referred to his two interviews with the Gross group as `` unfortunate experiences '', and after his second meeting on the sixteenth the Dane refused to attend further hearings without legal counsel.

He had talked one other member of the group to stay with him, but that friend had tired of not eating regularly and returned to Savannah.

The publication of Father Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the group available in print so that a general picture of what it contained can now be had without difficulty.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.

The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates on grain, as they had planned to do this month.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.

Why had he crossed the dark water, to bring back a group of reclaimed soldiers or to skulk in a foul-smelling hole??

Ask any group of ballerinas to do ten push-ups or three chin-ups and the results, considering the amount of physical training they have had, will be very disappointing.

The adherence of many in the population to the Indian background in their pedigree, and emphasis upon the fact that their ancestors had never been slaves, becomes of prime interest in determining how far these elements promote the self-image of the intermediate status of the group in society.

Though it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.