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 | | Pauline-Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, marquise de Vintimille, his mistress from 1739 to 1741, had sponsored the war party that brought France into the inconclusive War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) against Austria and Britain. |
 | | It was aristocratic opposition to the fiscal, economic, and administrative reforms of the controller-general of finance, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, in 1787 that forced the king, in July 1788, to summon the States General, the representatives of the clergy, nobility, and commoners, for the following year and thus set in motion the French Revolution. |
 | | Louis's resistance to popular demands was one of the causes of the forcible transfer of the royal family from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace in Paris on Oct. 6, 1789. |
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