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The First Estate, speaking in terms of the Kingdom of France, was comprised entirely of The Clergy.
Prior to the 1789 French Revolution, the legal system in France had several drawbacks. These included a lack of equality before the law, with privileges based on social class and the influence of the clergy. Additionally, there were arbitrary punishments, excessive taxation, and a lack of fair representation for the common people in the legal system.
The third estate in France was the overwhelming majority of the citizenry and included everyone who was NOT part of the clergy or the nobility. The group of the Third Estate with the largest population was the peasantry and farmers. The group of the Third Estate which was the most politically astute was the bourgeoisie, made of lawyers, doctors, bankers, public officials.
The 1st estate was represented by the Clergy. The 2nd estate was represented by the Nobility. The 3rd estate was represented by the Bourgeoisie
The relationship of the three estates in France is that the whole population of France was put into one of the three estates. The first estate contained only 1% of the population, the second estate contained 3 % of the population, and the third contained 96% of the population.
The French working class. It includes the peasants, the bourgeois, and the merchants. Essentially, the Third Estate was everyone who was not a part of the noble class (Second Estate) or the clergy (First Estate).
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There were 3 estates: the third estate was the bourgeoisie. They represented 97% of all inhabitants of France. There other two estates (the first and second) were the nobility and the clergy (the representatives of the church).
Bourgeoisie is typically used in English to refer to a middle class or wealthy class that acquired their wealth through means other than nobility, such as being bankers, doctors, lawyers, businessmen, merchants, professors, artisans, etc. This meaning is typically stressed in both French Revolutionary literature, where the bourgeoisie are contrasted favorably with the nobility because they worked for their wealth, and in Communist literature, where the bourgeoisie are viewed negatively for hoarding wealth from the proletariat (lower class of laborers).
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Richest members of the lowest class. The Bourgeoisie was made up primarily of educated professionals, such as bankers, lawyers, doctors, capitalists, merchants, academicians, etc. These individuals made their wealth and contributed greatly to development of France, but did not have titles of nobility (so they could not be part of the Second Estate) nor were they members of the clergy (so they could not be part of the First Estate).
Not to the nobility, but to Protestants