MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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70%
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10%
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30%
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15%
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Detailed explanation-1: -"The clergy and the nobles together constituted 3% of the French population. They owned about 60% of the land.
Detailed explanation-2: -The First Estate was the clergy, who were people, including priests, who ran both the Catholic church and some aspects of the country. In addition to keeping registers of births, deaths and marriages, the clergy also had the power to levy a 10% tax known as the tithe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Approximately 10% of the land in France was owned by the church. This number varied greatly between various cities and regions. In Paris, the First Estate owned as much as 25% of all property.
Detailed explanation-4: -The nobility owned a significant percentage of the land of France outright – about one-third – and had lordly rights over most of the rest of it.
Detailed explanation-5: -About 60 percent of the land was owned by nobles, the Church and other richer members of the third estate. The members of the first two estates-the Clergy and the nobility, enjoyed certain privileges by birth such as exemption from paying taxes.