how was the French society in the 18th century divide
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In the political thinking of the time, society was divided into three “estates” or classes: the lords spiritual (bishops, etc.), the lords temporal (nobility), and commoners (everyone else). All below the king, of course. Sometimes as a kind of joke the press was referred to as the “fourth estate,” but that had no real standing in law or political philosophy.
These classes had nothing at all to do with what we commonly think of as “estates,” i.e., either large pieces of property, usually in the countryside, or the complete property holdings of a person, usually compiled upon his or her death. (Thus “estate planning,” “heir to the estate,” etc.) I mention this only because there is occasional confusion over the same term used for such different meanings.
These classes had nothing at all to do with what we commonly think of as “estates,” i.e., either large pieces of property, usually in the countryside, or the complete property holdings of a person, usually compiled upon his or her death. (Thus “estate planning,” “heir to the estate,” etc.) I mention this only because there is occasional confusion over the same term used for such different meanings.
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they were divided into three estates
- clergy(1st estate)
- nobility (2nd estate)
- working class (3rd estate)
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