Abstract
It was at the time of the Hundred Years' War that the assemblies of provincial states appeared in the institutional landscape of the French monarchy. They were convened to allow the king of France to impose new sums to finance the conflict against the kingdom of England. Indeed, they were competent to vote the tax and organize its distribution within the province. At the same time, in the early years of the 15th century, in Vivarais, some lords and representatives of the towns met and formed an assembly to set up the payment of the various extraordinary tax demands of the king. From 1424, this assembly was subordinated to the States General of Languedoc and remained so until the Revolution. During the same period, the other dioceses of Languedoc also set up similar assemblies called diocesan assiettes. In Vivarais, this assembly took the name of particular States. If its action was similar in several points to that of the diocesan assiettes, it was distinguished from the latter by an autonomy and wider attributions. Until 1789, the particular States actively participated in the administration of the diocese of Vivarais, of which they were the principal incarnation.