FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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a bunch of radicals
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the most useful component of French society
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those who adhered to liberalism
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the business and professional elite
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the community of artists and musicians
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the pamphlet, Sieyès argues that the third estate – the common people of France – constituted a complete nation within itself and had no need of the “dead weight” of the two other orders, the first and second estates of the clergy and aristocracy.
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: -The Third Estate comprised poor servants, small peasants, landless labourers, peasants artisans, big businessmen, merchants and lawyers.
Detailed explanation-5: -In What is the Third Estate? Sieyès argued that commoners made up most of the nation and did most of its work, they were the nation. He urged members of the Third Estate to demand a constitution and greater political representation.