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1. Louis xvi
2. The clergy and nobles belonged to the first and the second estate respectively.
3. i} Tax levied by the church comprising 1/10th of the agricultural produce.
ii} Tax to be paid directly to the state.
iii} The people who belonged to the first estate. They belonged to the church.
They were exempted from paying the taxes.
4. The French society was divided into 3 estates.
(i) The Clergy
(ii) The Nobility and
(iii) Businessmen, merchants, court officials, peasants, artisans, landless labour and Servants.
The members of the first two estates, that is, the clergy and the nobility, enjoyed certain privileges by birth. The most important of these was exemption from paying taxes to the state.
Peasants, belonging to the 3rd estate made up of 90 per cent of the population. Peasants were obliged to render services to the members of the 1st and 2nd estate and to work in their houses and fields and to serve in the army or to participate in building roads.
During the late 18th century the middle class emerged. They gained money mainly from trades. they helped the third estate people to gain freedom from the first and the second estate people.