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Calonne is desperate but not without ideas. To rally the support of the public opinion, Calonne publishes a Collection des Mémoires, prefaced by an aggressively worded Avertissement, that pitted the Third Estate against the Nobles. ("Privileges will be sacrificed!")

This pamphlet was drafted by the lawyer Gerbier and designed to promote Calonne's answers to the objections of the Notables. It simultaneously attacks the stance of the Notables but asks to give them a break because they have already agreed to fix the problem (100% not true.) Calonne sends this memorandum to all parishes in the kingdom. Many people will hear it read to them from the pulpit.

This entire promotional scheme will utterly backfire because the public doesn't trust Calonne and, on top of that, the Notables will feel betrayed. In fact, this step seals the definitive rupture between Calonne and the Notables.