MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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First State
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Second State
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Third State
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Four State
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Clergy was the first estate . Nobles were second estate. The third estate included middle classes, the artisans and the peasants.
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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Before the revolution, French society was divided into three estates or orders. The First Estate contained around 130, 000 ordained members of the Catholic church: from archbishops and bishops down to parish priests, monks, friars and nuns. The First Estate occupied a prestigious place in the social order.
Detailed explanation-4: -clergy, a body of ordained ministers in a Christian church. In the Roman Catholic Church and in the Church of England, the term includes the orders of bishop, priest, and deacon. Until 1972, in the Roman Catholic Church, clergy also included several lower orders.
Detailed explanation-5: -The First Estate-the highest level of the feudal class system-was the clergy. Clergy, by definition, is a body of ordained ministers (bishops, priests, and deacons) in a Christian church. Before the French Revolution, there were around 130, 000 members of the First Estate.