The 1st estate was represented by the Clergy.
The 2nd estate was represented by the Nobility.
The 3rd estate was represented by the Bourgeoisie
Meaning, the 3rd estate WAS the bourgeoisie.
The population of France was divided into three estates based on their social class. The First Estate consisted of the clergy, the Second Estate consisted of the nobility, and the Third Estate consisted of the commoners, including the bourgeoisie, peasants, and urban workers. This division was a significant aspect of the social structure in pre-revolutionary France and played a role in the tensions that led to the French Revolution.
First Estate: clergy Second Estate: nobility Third Estate: everybody else; bourgeoisie, proletariat, and peasants. They made up the vast majority of the French population, but were constantly trampled on and underrepresented.
The bourgeoise were a class which owned property, made business or some kind of trading. They were not nobles but usually had more money than any of the privileged classes. They belonged to the third estate in France before 1789.
No, they were part of the first estate: the Clergy. - or would have been, had not being female disqualified them from all political activity.
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).
Third Estate was the generality of people which were not part of the other estates, or commoners. Bourgeoisie were middle class.
The Third Estate was the estate in which the bourgeoisie belonged to.
That was the third estate.
The high bourgeoisie. The poorer elements of the Third Estate had no time to worry about such things.
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).
The bourgeoisie was made up of wealthy people while the third estate was made up of nobles.
During the Old Regime in France, the bourgeoisie was part of the Third Estate. This estate comprised the common people, including merchants, professionals, and laborers, who were not part of the clergy (First Estate) or the nobility (Second Estate). The bourgeoisie played a significant role in the economic development and ultimately became a key force in the French Revolution, advocating for political rights and social change.
The Bourgeois The revolutionaries
The 3rd estate represented the bourgeoisie, meaning the commoners.
The bourgeoisie was different than the rest of the third estae
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 Third, like everybody who was not noble or clergy