Estates General
Background/Origin
Issues
Peasants
Clergy
Knights/ nobility
Comments
The Third Estate comprised about 25 million people – the majority of France’s population: the bourgeoisie, or the middle class, peasants, and all other commoners
There was a wide range of social hierarchy within the 3rd estate there were innumerable social ranks, tied to occupation, purchasing power, size and type of land tenure, citizenship, ownership of farm animals, and free or unfree status
Unlike the First and Second Estates, the Third Estate were compelled to pay taxes, the bourgeoisie (middle class) found one way or another to be exempt from them.
The heavy burden of the French government therefore fell upon the poorest in French society—the peasantry, the working poor, and the farmers.
This lead to much resentment from the Third Estate towards its superiors and issues later on.
The Estates-General meeting of 1614, revealed one of the body’s major weaknesses—the inability of the three orders to agree because of conflicting interests.
The Third Estate refused to consent to the abolition of the sale of offices unless the nobles surrendered some of their privileges, and the meeting ended without action.
The deputies of the Third Estate, fearing that they would be overruled by the two privileged estates in any attempt at reform, led in the formation of the revolutionary National Assembly,
This signaled the end of representation based on the traditional social classes.
majority of people in france the bourgeoisie, peasants, and all other commoners
Ranks within the 3rd estate tied to occupation, land ownership, citizenship, ownership of farm animals, and free or unfree status influenced the place of the European peasantry in the social hierarchy compelled to pay taxes, the bourgeoisie found a way to be exempt from them heavy taxes fell upon the poorest in French society much resentment from the Third Estate towards its
Issues
Peasants
Clergy
Knights/ nobility
Comments
The Third Estate comprised about 25 million people – the majority of France’s population: the bourgeoisie, or the middle class, peasants, and all other commoners
There was a wide range of social hierarchy within the 3rd estate there were innumerable social ranks, tied to occupation, purchasing power, size and type of land tenure, citizenship, ownership of farm animals, and free or unfree status
Unlike the First and Second Estates, the Third Estate were compelled to pay taxes, the bourgeoisie (middle class) found one way or another to be exempt from them.
The heavy burden of the French government therefore fell upon the poorest in French society—the peasantry, the working poor, and the farmers.
This lead to much resentment from the Third Estate towards its superiors and issues later on.
The Estates-General meeting of 1614, revealed one of the body’s major weaknesses—the inability of the three orders to agree because of conflicting interests.
The Third Estate refused to consent to the abolition of the sale of offices unless the nobles surrendered some of their privileges, and the meeting ended without action.
The deputies of the Third Estate, fearing that they would be overruled by the two privileged estates in any attempt at reform, led in the formation of the revolutionary National Assembly,
This signaled the end of representation based on the traditional social classes.
majority of people in france the bourgeoisie, peasants, and all other commoners
Ranks within the 3rd estate tied to occupation, land ownership, citizenship, ownership of farm animals, and free or unfree status influenced the place of the European peasantry in the social hierarchy compelled to pay taxes, the bourgeoisie found a way to be exempt from them heavy taxes fell upon the poorest in French society much resentment from the Third Estate towards its