There were many grievances among the Third Estate on the eve of the French Revolution. The Third Estate was discontent with unequal taxation‚ the interference of the government of the people’s lives‚ and unreasonable persecution of different religions. The Third Estate was made up by the merchants‚ peasants‚ and the laborers (bourgiosie). The bourgiosie were the only ones that were able to address the Third Estate grievances. One of the main grievances of the Third Estate were the high taxes
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Third Estate The Grievances of the Third Estate was the list of ideas that the cahier of the Third Estate sent to the Estates General on how the new Constitution should be drafted. It included the injustices on how the Third Estate was currently being treated‚ as well as ideas to restore their social standing and rights. The document begins by stating the people’s loyalty to the King and then lists the Third Estate’s wishes. Then they go on to tell him about each of the grievances of each of the
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the grievances of the Third Estate in 1789? There were three national ‘estates’ in France‚ the First Estate made up of all clergy ranging from Archbishops to Priests and the Second Estate made up of nobility were the ‘estates’ that did not need to pay any tax at all. The Third Estate was defined negatively as everybody who did not belong to the first two estates including the bourgeoisie‚ the artisan workers and the peasants. With a total population of 28 million people‚ the Third Estate was the
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people were divided into 3 categories: The Clergy‚ Nobility‚ and Commoners or Medieval ranking named the 3rd‚ 2nd and 1st estate respectively. The 3rd estate were commoners and mainly really poor workers who worked under harsh conditions for little pay. This estate; the commoners were the ones who rose up against the other two and started the French Revolution. Their main grievances were; the nobility spending their money unwisely‚ the country’s growing debt‚ and the fact that they were starving while
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Before the French Revolution‚ there were three estates‚ or classes: the nobility‚ the clergy and the commoners. The nobility and the clergy had many more privileges than the third estate and that is what caused the French Revolution. The Third estate was composed of the peasants‚ the workers and the bourgeoisie; unlike the other segments of the Third Estate‚ the bourgeoisie was able to communicate its grievances to the public during the period after the French Revolution: 1789-1799. The peasants
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What is The Third Estate? Forging The Modern World What is the Third State? What has it been until now in the political order? What does it want to be? What is necessary that a nation should subsist and prosper? These are the questions you need to ask yourself when you read Emmanuel (Abbe’) Sieyes’s “Qu’est-ce que le tiers etat?” or “What Is the Third Estate?” Emmanuel Sieyes was a French monk who was an important participant in many stages of the French Revolution
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WHAT IS THE THIRD ESTATE? Abbe Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes As an ambitious clergyman from Chartres‚ Abbe Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes was a member of the First Estate. Yet Sieyes was elected deputy to the Estates General for the Third Estate on the basis of his attacks on aristocratic privilege. He participated in the writing and editing of the great documents of the early revolution: the Tennis Court Oath‚ and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. The pamphlet for which he is immortalized
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government and philosophy. Source A‚ a visual source‚ “1789 – Burden of the Third Estate”‚ depicts the three estates and the vast differences putting pressure on the struggling French society. The smallest and highest estate titled the ‘first estate’ is represented by a man dressed in a Mitre hat‚ Crosier and cross motifs to represent the church‚ like clergy and bishops‚ who owned land‚ money and were exempt from tax. However‚ this estate did not alleviate the burden‚ depicted by his fingers only grazing
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failed to treat the members of the third estate as equals to the members of the first two led to the French Revolution‚ which was ultimately successful in what it set out to achieve. The systems in place prior to the French Revolution led to much of the unrest in France. With the social Estate system‚ 98% of the French population (the third estate) was treated unfairly by the the other two estates. This included paying the majority of France’s taxes. The third estate was greatly upset with this system
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11/10/14 Cahier of the Third Estate of Dourdan The Cahier of the Third Estate of Dourdan was a list of things that the Third Estate in France wanted. It talked about how the Third Estate wanted to be equal to the other to‚ the Clergy and the Nobles. They also wanted to have the same amount of votes that both the Clergy and Nobles together because when they voted on something the Clergy and Nobles would just team up and out vote the Third Estate even though the Third Estate was the majority of people
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