Clergy and nobility formed the first and second estates. Clergy and NOBILITY-These were the rich peoples who extracted taxes from the third estates.

What did the First Estate do in the French Revolution?

1. The First Estate was one of France’s three social orders. It contained all persons ordained in a Catholic religious order, from cardinals and archbishops down to priests, monks and nuns.

What was the First Estate in France’s population?

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The First Estate consisted of the clergy and numbered about 130,000 people who owned approximately 10% of the land. – Clergy were exempt from the taille, France’s chief tax.

What was the main cause of the French Revolution?

The upheaval was caused by widespread discontent with the French monarchy and the poor economic policies of King Louis XVI, who met his death by guillotine, as did his wife Marie Antoinette.

What was the first estate of the French Revolution?

The First estate was the clergy. The higher clergy consisted of nobles, while the lower clergy were basically commoners, and were parish priests. The clergy collected tithes, and owned about 10 percent of France’s land, for which no taxes were paid. The clergy also ran schools, kept records, and supported the poor.

Who are the members of the first estate in France?

In 1789 France, there were around 100,000 members of the First Estate, 400,000 members of the Second Estate, and around 27 million members of the Third Estate. Some members of the First Estate (the clergy) were commoners before they became clergy. Many of them sided with the issues and concerns of the Third Estate.

Who was the Third Estate in France in 1789?

(1789) The Third estate was everybody else – 98% of the population, who owned 60-70 percent of the land in France. The third estate could be divided into three groups: the bourgeoisie, the sans culottes, and the peasants.

How did the French government develop the Estates General?

Estates General. The French government developed the Estates General to show, at any given time, that they had the support of the French people. However, the way the estates were set up, ‘support of the people’ wasn’t necessarily true. There are three estates in the Estates Generals, and they all had one vote.