HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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the First Estate
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the Second Estate
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the Third Estate
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the aristocracy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Third Estate was made up of everyone else, from peasant farmers to the bourgeoisie – the wealthy business class.
Detailed explanation-2: -The deputies of the Third Estate (the Commoners) were the greatest in number, dressed in black with a gold and black overcoat.
Detailed explanation-3: -Society in the Kingdom of France in the period of the Ancien Regime was broken up into three separate estates, or social classes: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.
Detailed explanation-4: -Third Estate (cont.) About 8% of the population, or 2.3 million people, constituted the bourgeoisie, or middle class, who owned about 20 to 25% of the land.
Detailed explanation-5: -III. The third estate comprised of rest 90% of population of France which includes peasants, workers, artisans, lower rank court officials, lawyers, landless labour, servants etc. All the taxes were to be paid by third estate while other two enjoyed various privileges and has full authority to impose taxes.
Detailed explanation-6: -The Third Estate comprised poor servants, small peasants, landless labourers, peasants artisans, big businessmen, merchants and lawyers.