FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Question
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merchants
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peasants
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nobles
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. – This group included merchants, industrialists, and bankers who controlled the resources of trade, manufacturing, and finance and benefited from the economic prosperity after 1730.
Detailed explanation-2: -Historically, the medieval French word bourgeois denoted the inhabitants of the bourgs (walled market-towns), the craftsmen, artisans, merchants, and others, who constituted “the bourgeoisie".
Detailed explanation-3: -The middle classes (the bourgeoisie) possessed the greater part of the fortune of France, whereas the privileged orders were ruining themselves.
Detailed explanation-4: -At the apex of the Third Estate’s social hierarchy was the bourgeoisie or capitalist middle classes. The bourgeoisie were business owners and professionals with enough wealth to live comfortably. As with the peasantry, there was also diversity within their ranks.