The first Estate was the Clergy, the second the nobility, and the third, well, everyone else, rich and poor, from rich Bourgeois to famished peasants. The third estate is the one that paid all the taxes.
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It is nobility,relegious leaders, lowest class these 3 estates are made of a soclial structure for the french society.
1st Estate: Nobility
2nd Estate: Clergy
3rd Estate: Everyone else
The First Estate was made up of clergy. The Second was the nobilty. The Third was everybody else, aka 95%-99% of the population
The society was classified into 3 estates. 1st and 2nd estates were rich . 2nd estate people were loyal to King. the 3rd estate contained the poor like Merchants, cobbler's etc.,
in an old feudal system called the "old regime". this system split the groups into three estates, or classes. The clergy of the catholic church made up the first one, nobles made up the second, and peasants were the third and lowest class. the lowest group contained the rich as well as the poor and only the last last estate i.e. the third one only paid the taxes and was highly discriminated from the other two estates.
The Estates-General (or States-General) of 1789 (French: Les États-Généraux de 1789) was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly consisting of representatives from all but the poorest segment of the French citizenry. The independence from the Crown which it displayed paved the way for the French Revolution.
The Clergy, the Nobility, and the wealthy non nobles.
In political theory the distinction is between civil society and the presumed, earlier state of nature.A civil society is a society in which people are involved in social and political interactions free of state control or regulation. Community groups, voluntary associations and even religious groups, as well as access to mass media and the Internet are important parts of a civil society.What relation is civilized to the word civil?