First Estate: 0.5%
Second Estate: 1.5%
Third Estate: 98%
The First Estates was the Clergy; the Second Estates was the Aristocrats; and the Third Estates was the poor.
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.
Estimates vary, but between them they're unlikely to have numbered much over half a million, or 2% of the population, despite a big expansion of the "service nobility" in the previous 150 years.
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The French Estates General was made up of three main groups. This first Parliament consisted of the First Estates of clergy, the Second Estate of nobility, and the Third Estate of commoners.
From paying taxes.
The first and second estates detested the French revolution as it threatened to remove them from power and wealth.
Only the third, the first and second were exempt!
The National Assembly was formed mostly by members of the third estate, while the Estates General consisted of the first, second, and third estates.
The National Assembly was formed mostly by members of the third estate, while the Estates General consisted of the first, second, and third estates.
The National Assembly was formed mostly by members of the third estate, while the Estates General consisted of the first, second, and third estates.
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