FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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The third estate, the urban middle class
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The first estate, the wealthy and politically powerful
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The second estate, the wealthy
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The fourth estate, the poor lower class
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Detailed explanation-1: -What does bourgeoisie mean? The term bourgeoisie refers to the social order that is dominated by the so-called middle class. In social and political theory, the notion of the bourgeoisie was largely a construct of Karl Marx and of those influenced by him.
Detailed explanation-2: -The moyenne bourgeoisie or middle bourgeoisie contains people who have solid incomes and assets, but not the aura of those who have become established at a higher level. They tend to belong to a family that has been bourgeois for three or more generations.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Medieval France, the term “bourgeois” described those who lived in towns. As Karl Marx argues, those Medieval urbanites developed into the industrial elite of the 1800s as a result of the Industrial Revolution: a major transformation in the economy due to growing manufacturing.
Detailed explanation-4: -Despite the Third Estate’s enormous size and economic importance, it played almost no role in the government or decision-making of the Ancien Regime. The frustrations, grievances and sufferings of the Third Estate became pivotal causes of the French Revolution.