ABSTRACT
With no end to the press debate on ‘privilege’ in sight and deadlock – or disarray – within the ministry as to how to respond to the demands being made by Third Estate pamphleteers, the Princes of the Blood become seriously alarmed. This memorandum was sent to the king on 12 December 1788 by five of his brothers and cousins (the Comte d’Artois, the Prince de Condé, the Prince de Conti, the Duc de Bourbon and the Duc d’Enghien). Two, the Comte de Provence and the Duc d’Orléans, refused to sign the protest.
