Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University870710.18287/2542-0445-2021-27-2-51-60Research ArticleFormation of provincial assemblies in France in 1787KoutsevaE. A.<p>Candidate of Historical Sciences, associate professor, associate professor of the Department of General History</p>eakuceva@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6959-5215Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education0608202127251601205202112052021Copyright © 2021, Koutseva E.A.2021<p>Administrative reform in France begins in an economic crisis. Calonne, then Lomnie de Brienne proposed to introduce a new local administration to improve the collection of taxes, new local authorities were asked to entrust control over their distribution and collection, as well as the management of public and road works. A three-tier system of elective assemblies was introduced in the municipality, in the district or department, and in the province. The article examines the process of the formation of provincial assemblies and the identification of their functions in the summer of 1787. For this, the adoption of regulations of provincial assemblies and their reflection in the press will be considered, the functions of assemblies according to the rules and functions noted in the minutes of assemblies in different regions will be compared and analyzed. The article analyzes the edicts on the creation of provincial assemblies in the kingdom in the summer of 1787, regulations of the provinces of Champagne and Rouen, regulations on the functions of assemblies, minutes of meetings of provincial assemblies, the French and Dutch press. In the course of writing the article, comparative and problem-chronological methods were used. The events of the end of the Ancien Rgime were developed in Russian historiography, but the issues of transformation in the administrative sphere were less studied, which will be discussed in this article. Provincial assemblies, created to improve the situation, have not fully fulfilled their task. Despite the delineation of functions between the old and the new administration, conflicts will arise that worsened the situation in the country. The new administration did not have enough time, already in 1788 elections to the States General began.</p>provincial assemblies in Franceadministrative reform of 1787Loménie de Briennedistrict assembliesmunicipal assembliesAncien Régime in FranceXVIII century.провинциальные собрания во Францииадминистративная реформа 1787 г.Ломени де Бриеннокружные собраниямуниципальные собранияСтарый порядок во ФранцииXVIII в.[Baudens 2011 – Baudens S. (2011) De la province à la nation. Débats sur la constitution des états provinciaux à la veille de la révolution: le cas de l’Anjou. Annales historiques de la Révolution françaice, avril-juin 364. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4000/ahrf.12024.][Berthe L. 1966 – Berthe L. (1966) Les Assemblées provinciales et l'opinion publique en 1787–1788. Revue du Nord, no. 189, pp. 185–200. DOI: http://doi.org/10.3406/RNORD.1966.2566.][Condette-Marcant, Rigaudière, 2001 – Condette-Marcant A.-S., Rigaudière A. (2001) Bâtir une généralité: Le droit des travaux publics dans la généralité d’Amiens au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, 661 p. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4000/books.igpde.3402.][Doyle 2009 – Doyle W. (2009) Aristocracy and its enemies in the age of revolution Oxford: Oxford University Press, 371 p. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199559855.001.0001.][Doyle 2012 – Doyle W. (2012) The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 583 p. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199291205.001.0001.][Kaiser, Van Kley 2011 – Kaiser Th.E., Van Kley D.K. (Eds.) (2011) From deficit to deluge: the origins of the French Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. 345 p. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/9780804777193.][Grasser 1998 – Grasser J.-P. (1998) Une Histoire de l'Alsace. Paris: Edition J.-P. Gisserot, 123 р.][Hardman 2000 – Hardman J. (2000) Louis XVI. The silent king. London: Arnold, 224 р. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2001.10525774.][Hollander, Pageot 1989 – Hollander d' Р., Pageot P. (1989) La Révolution française dans le Limousin et la Marche, 1787–1799. Toulouse Privat, 317 р.][Mousnier, 1984 – Mousnier R.E. The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598–1789. Vol. II. The Organs of State and Society. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. 695 p. Available at: http://www.onscene.ru/The-institutions-of-France-under-the-absolute-monarchy-1598-1789--society-and-the-state--or--cRoland/14/efgdia.][Saint-Bonnet 2011 – Saint-Bonnet F. (2011) Le «constitutionnalisme» des parlementaires et la justice politique. Les équivoques des «lits de justice» du XVIIIe siècle. Revue d'histoire politique, no. 15 Parlement[s], pp. 16–30. DOI: http://doi.org/10.3917/parl.015.0016.][Blumenau 2017 – Blumenau S.F. (2017) Attitude of society the king`s ministers before and at the beginning of the French revolution of the 18th century. The Bryansk State University Herald, no. 1 (31), pp. 11–15. Available at: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=28896563. (In Russ.)][Veremchuk 2009 – Veremchuk L.P. (2009) Two French historians' assessment of Lomenie de Brienne reform. Tomsk State University Journal, no. 325, pp. 73–74. Available at: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=13418840. (In Russ.)][Skocpol 2017 – Skocpol T. (2017) States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China. Translated from English by S. Moiseev; D. Karasev (Ed.). Moscow: Izd-vo Instituta Gaidara, 552 p. Available at: https://vk.com/wall139355750_2585 (In Russ.)][Chudinov 2013 – Chudinov A.V. (2013) Ancien Regime in France and its fall. Moscow: Rossiiskii gumanitarnyi nauchnyi fond, 180 p. Available at: https://coollib.com/b/487851/read. (In Russ.)]