third estate?
The third estate
The Third Estate was the commons or the ordinary people, the First Estate being the clergy and the Second Estate the nobility .
Everyone else excluding the 1st estate and 2nd estate, so the bourgeois made up the third estate. Particularly the rich people.
The Third Estate.
The 3rd estate represented the bourgeoisie, meaning the commoners.
Poor farmers
The peasants/common people were in the Third Estate. The wealthy merchant class was also in the Third Estate. The Second Estate were the nobility. The First Estate was the church/clergy.
There are 3 estates : the first estate, the second estate, and the third estate. The third estate were the poorest in France and were mostly peasants but the first estate contains priests and religious people who are very rich
97% of the French population belonged to the third estate.
2% The first estate took up 1%, and the third estate took up 97%
The Third Estate or 97 per cent of the population - the common people.