USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Third Estate comprised poor servants, small peasants, landless labourers, peasants artisans, big businessmen, merchants and lawyers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Third Estate was made up of everyone else, from peasant farmers to the bourgeoisie – the wealthy business class. While the Second Estate was only 1% of the total population of France, the Third Estate was 96%, and had none of the rights and priviliges of the other two estates.

Detailed explanation-3: -French society was divided into three classes known as Estates with the First Estate being the clergy, the Second Estate being the nobility and the Third Estate, which included the rest of the society consisting of peasants and the middle class merchants and professionals.

Detailed explanation-4: -A majority of the population belonged to the third estate of commoners. These were the lawyers, merchants, businessmen and peasants. The nobility belonged to the second estate.

Detailed explanation-5: -The best known system is the French Ancien Régime (Old Regime), a three-estate system which was made up of clergy (the First Estate), nobles (Second Estate), peasants and bourgeoisie (Third Estate).