how was the system of estates in french society organised ? explain
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The French society was divided into 3 estates. 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.
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- French Society was divided into three estates:
- Clergy-consisted the people invested with special functions in the church.
- Noblility-consisted members of royal family and people who served them.
- Third Estate-consisted of rich people such as big businessmen,merchants,court officials,etc.,poor people such as peasants and artisans,and very poor people such as small peasants,landless labour and servants.
2. Peasants made up about 90 percent of population but only a small number of them owned the land they cultivated.
3. The people from first two estates enjoyed certain privileges which included exemption from paying taxes and extraction of fuedal dues from peasants.
4. The church also extracted taxes,called tithes, from peasants.
5. So,all the members of third estate had to pay taxes which comprised of a direct tax,called taille,and a number of indirect taxes which were leived on articles of everyday consumption.