Around 80%
about 80 percent.
To control the population. About 90% of the people were peasants or serfs, another 5% would be noble and the rest were the clergy. The clergy controlled the nobles, the nobles controlled the majority of the population. The 90% served, fed, and fought for the 10%.This worked well for the people at the top. Not so well for those at the bottom.
The two types of clergy were regular clergy and secular clergy. Regular clergy were those who were in monastic orders, and so were regulated by the rules of those orders; they included monks and abbots. Secular clergy were those who served the secular population; they were deacons, priests, and bishops serving the secular people, or people who were not clergy.
The three estates were the clergy , nobility and the peasants/trades people, etc. Clergy - was the largest owner of the land - clergy was exempt from paying taxes to the state. Nobility- nobles further enjoyed feudal privileges and some privileges from birth. Peasants and trades people - peasants were obliged to render services to the lord, work in his house or fields, work in the army or to participate in building roads. They had to pay a number of taxes to the slay and to the church.
Those who are not members of the clergy. These are members of the church with different duties.
The French nobles most often spent their money on homes and decorations for those homes. They also built fortifications to protect those homes.
The lesser nobles were those not in the monarch such as Lords, who in turn had vassals, who in turn had vassals of their own.
The three estates were usually some variant of those who prayed (the clergy) those who fought (the nobility) and those who worked (everybody else, but usually agricultural workers).
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The clergy had responsibilities of their office, to the Church and their superiors. Secular clergy were responsible for the spiritual well being of their parishioners, and regular clergy had responsibilities within their orders, which could include anything from transcribing manuscripts to growing vegetables, washing dishes, or singing in a choir. Peasants had the responsibility of doing their work, which was usually raising crops. They had to pay rent or do labor for their lords. Sometimes they had other responsibilities on their manors, but these varied. On some manors, the peasants had to elect their own reeves. It was possible they would be called to do duties for the manorial court. The responsibilities of the nobility were most like those of the secular clergy, in the sense that they were responsible to their superiors but also had people for whom they were responsible. They had to support and obey they king and superior nobles, but they also had the responsibility to protect the peasants who lived on their manors. This went a good deal farther than the work secular clergy did, however, because it required them to attend to things that were physical, social, legal, military, official, where the secular clergy were only engaged in things spiritual. Unlike the nobility, the peasants and regular clergy usually had now one at a lower station for whom they had responsibilities.
The secular clergy are ordained priests who serve within a diocese under the authority of a bishop. They typically focus on pastoral work and serving the needs of a specific parish community, as opposed to members of religious orders who follow a specific rule and live in a community dedicated to prayer and service.
During the French Revolution, Catholicism was the official religion of the French state. On those times, the clergy wore long white robes.