Estates-General
Estates-General
estates-general
"Les états-généraux", in English the Estates-general.
nobles
Nobles and clergy
peasants and townspeople had the same rights as nobles
The nobles who left France to escape the revolution were called "les émigrés", from the verb"emigrer", to emigrate.
fables
Nobles who fled France
Nobles were called patricians.
boyars
The Nobles.
The nobles who fled France but hoped to restore the monarchy were the Emigres.