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The Third Estate consisted of all citizens who did not belong to the nobility or the Church, so basically we are talking about 95% of France's population in the 18th century.

The main issue they had with the Crown that they paid most of the taxes without having anything to say about - or any reports on - how the money was spent (it is often said, but not true, that the nobility and the Church were exempt from taxation in pre-revolutionary France. Technically that was true, but both these Estates paid yearly and usually considerable amounts in 'voluntary' payments to the Crown).

The second issue was that the Estates General was almost never convened to be consulted on governing affairs unless - usually financial - problems of the Crown had already gotten out of hand. The last meeting before 1789 had been over a hundred years ago.

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