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Tke Program: "My boys are in!" shouted a gleeful Poujade last week. He himself did not run for office. At his headquarters villa, he said that the first order of business should be the convocation of Etats Généraux, a throwback to the ancien regime before the French Revolution, when the clergy, the nobility and the lower classes were the three estates who met to advise the King. "They will be formed by delegates of different social classes ... I hope that the government itself will convoke them. I am not so naive as to believe that it will be easy to do. In any case, the Assembly must announce its intentions very quickly. If not, it will collapse." Presumably, the Etats Généraux would then abolish the National Assembly and rule in its stead—though Poujade is characteristically vague about details.