Abstract
The Estates General of Languedoc successfully opposed the growth of arbitrary royal power during the first half of the sixteenth century by insisting on their right to consent to taxation and by refusing to permit the unchecked sale of royal offices. As a local body concerned with local and regional matters, the Estates maintained its rights and privileges in a period of increasing control on other fronts by the crown.
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