Accordingly he called, for the first time in more than one hundred fifty years, a meeting of the national parliament, the " Estates General, " composed of representatives of the " three estates" —the clergy, nobility, and commoners.

因此，他在一百五十多年来第一次召集国民议会会议，即由“三级” ——神职人员、贵族和平民——的代表组成的“三级会议” 。