States provincial (France)

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).

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.

Only the Mâconnais retained its own états in 1789; the rest had been absorbed into the Burgundian estates general.

[3] The impôts were 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.