WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Third Estate represented the overwhelming majority of the French population, from the wealthy urban elite to craftsmen and the peasantry.

Detailed explanation-3: -(i) The third estate was on the last rung of the French society. This estate was constituted of ‘big businessmen, merchants, court officials, lawyers, peasants, artisans, landless labour and servants.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -1. The Third Estate contained around 27 million people or 98 per cent of the nation. This included every French person who did not have a noble title or was not ordained in the church.