Related question if that’s okay, but why was almost the reverse true on the lead up to the French Revolution only a decade later? The king was pushing really hard for very unpopular tax reform, and he kept having to hire new ministers to try, and fail, to implement them before he’d fire them and hire a new one. But instead of being mad at the king, most protests blamed those policies on the nobility and on the finance and justice ministers. After the failed Assembly of the Notables, the people even marched saying “long live the king, down with Brienne and Lamoignon.” All this, despite the fact that the transcript of the Assembly of the Notables was published openly to the public, so it’s not like the king’s intentions were secret, and the king even did the typical absolutist thing of doing a lit de justice ceremony ordering the parlement to carry out his plan, but the public still largely blamed the ministers and nobility.