Question

a growing middle class in france during the 18th century envisages an end to privileges analyse ghe statement

Answer 1

Before the 18th century there were only two classes in France, the noble class and the peasants.

The peasants were uneducated and unaware about the social and economic situations in the country but the middle-class people were highly educated and had good knowledge about the society, its norms and its functioning.

Gradually unrest started to ignite among the peasants about the disparities and the difference in privileges which evoked persistence of equality.

Answer 2

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middle class, who earned their wealth through an expanding overseas trade and from the manufacture of goods such as woolen and silk textiles that were either exported or bought by the richer members of society. In addition to merchants and manufacturers, the educated in the third estate included professions such as lawyers or administrative officials. They believed that no group in society should be privileged by birth. Rather, a person’s social position must depend on his merit. These ideas envisaging a society based on freedom and equal laws and opportunities for all, paved way for the emergence of the middle class.

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