Question

Describe the social, political and economic life people during french revolution (For 5 Marks describe it in detail)

Answer 1

The french society was divided into three estates and only the third estate had to bear the burden of tax payment.
Peasants made up about 90 per cent of the population. However, only a small number of them owned the land they cultivated.
About 60 per cent of the land was owned by nobles, the Church and other richer members of the third estate.
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.
The nobles further enjoyed feudal privileges. These included feudal dues, which they extracted from the peasants.
Peasants were obliged to render services to the lord to work in his house and fields to serve in the army or to participate in building roads.
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Teh citizens of france were divided into three stratas one containing the clergy second for the nobles and third was distributed amongst evryone.These third strata people suffered a great injustice as the above two stratas recieved a bunch of profits.The land of frnace was almost in their hands.They collected a lot of money frm the third estate.The third estate was recieving a very negligible amount of salary and still they had to pay heavy taxes.

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