USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. This assembly was composed of three estates – the clergy, nobility and commoners – who had the power to decide on the levying of new taxes and to undertake reforms in the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The commoners were represented by the third estate in the Estates-General. The Estates-General was composed of three estates, or groups representing sectors of French society: the nobility, the clergy, and the commoners.

Detailed explanation-3: -The third estate in France was made up of wage laborers and free peasants, and it was this estate that played a pivotal role in starting the French Revolution in 1789. The leader of the third estate who led the French Revolution was Maximilien Robespierre.

Detailed explanation-4: -France under the Ancien Régime (before the French Revolution) divided society into three estates: the First Estate (clergy); the Second Estate (nobility); and the Third Estate (commoners). The king was considered part of no estate.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Third Estate was frustrated at the Estates General meeting in 1789 because that Estate represented the interests of the common people, and these were at odds with the interests of the elites of the First and Second Estates.