What is the first estate of the french revolution?

Answer 1

The First Estate in France consisted of the Catholic Clergy. It was the largest land owner in the country and like the nobility of the Second Estate it was a small part of the population and paid no taxes for the operation of the government.

Answer 2

The Three Estates were 1) Clergy 2) Nobility 3) Third Estate NOTE: The Third Estate was, in French, the Tiers Etat. It had many times more members that the other two but, because voting was by estates, it was consiostently ouvoted. Thus the majority of the people had no say in the government. It was in France, therefore, that the phrase 'Le Tiers Monde' was coined, in English 'The Third World'.

Answer 3

The Second estate was the nobility. Nobles held the highest positions at court, in the church, and in government. Nobles had many privileges, and we as good as exempt from paying taxes. They had the ability to collect taxes from the peasants on their land, including old feudal taxes that should have been irrelevant in the day, but were collected so the noble could live extravagantly. The nobles owned between 20 and 30 percent of the land in France, but consisted of about 1.5 percent of the population. Ironically, it was these nobles who offered their estates as places to hold salons, when the philosophes were the ones who ended up criticizing the nobles. Under nobility there was nobility of the robe and nobility of the sword.

Answer 4

The second estate did not exist in the French Revolution. It had been abolished as a special political unit at the start of the French Revolution.

In the Estates General, the French representative government which met occasionally in the past, there had been three groups called estates. The Nobility, or first estate, made up one body. The clergy, or second estate, made up one body. And the common people, or third estate, made up one body. If all three bodies of the legislature agreed on a bill, it became a law.

At the beginning of the French Revolution all three groups met together as one body, the Constituent Assembly. It did away with the requirement that an assembly consisting of clergy and one of nobility approve laws. France then became a regular republic and separate estates ceased to exist.

(Actually France still lets people inherit and keep feudal titles. The titles are meaningless.)

Answer 5

the three estates:

la noblesse (the nobility)

le clergé (clergy)

le tiers-état (all the others, including the very large peasanry, and a very small part of 'bourgeois' who represented the lot in the assembly)

Answer 6

the nobility