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What is a secular person's belief about the clergy or first estate?
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Was clergy the Third Estate?
No, the Clergy formed the First Estate of France.
Was the First Estate composed of the clergy?
Yes, the Catholic clergy.
What is the first estate?
The Clergy.
What is the first estate made up of?
The first estate of the Estate General represented the Clergy (which is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion). The second estate represented the Nobility and the third the Commoners.
First Second and Third Estates?
The Third Estate was the commons or the ordinary people, the First Estate being the clergy and the Second Estate the nobility .
What was the role the First Estate?
The First Estate consisted of the Catholic Clergy.
What made up the First Estate?
Catholic priests. The "first estate" under the French pre-revolutionary Ancien Régime was the clergy.
Before the revolution to what social class did the clergy belong?
The Catholic clergy were the First Estate.
What is the First Estate made of?
The Catholic Clergy
Which estate did the Clergy belong to?
In the French Estates-General, the Clergy were represented by the First Estate. The Nobility were represented by the second, and everyone else was represented by the Third.
Clergy and nobles did not pay these?
Taxes. During the old regime the Clergy (1st estate) and the Nobility (2nd estate) did not have to pay taxes, meaning the bourgeoisie (3rd estate) had to pay all the taxes.
What percentage of the third estate in the french society was the clegry?
Zero. The Clergy were the FIRST Estate.
