HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Peasants, Clergy, Nobles
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Nobles, Clergy, Peasants
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Clergy, Nobles, Peasants
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Nobles, Peasants, Clergy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first estate was the clergy; the second estate, the nobility, and the third estate the commoners. The year was 1789, the French King Louis XVI had been on the throne for 15 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Three Estates French society comprised three Estates, the aristocracy, the clergy and the bourgeoisie and working classes, over which the King had absolute sovereignty. The First and Second Estates were exempted from most taxes.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Third Estate The rural included free peasants (who owned their own land) who could be prosperous and villeins (serfs, or peasants working on a noble’s land).
Detailed explanation-5: -France society, before the French Revolution, was divided into three estates: the First Estate (clergy); the Second Estate (nobility); and the Third Estate (commoners).