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What was the estate-general?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 4/1/2022

A general assembly that represented French Estates - Clergy (first estate), Nobility (second estate), and commoners (third estate). Clergy and Nobility were quite powerful, whereas the Commoners consisted of "normal" people and the poor with little/no power on any governmental/legislative decisions whatsoever. The absolute monarchy in France ruled without convening it at all from 1614 until 1789.
A Parliament made up of the three estates :)

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Nash O'Hara

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3y ago

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