Question

what was estate general? how did it function.

Answer 1

Estate general was an elected body of the active citizens
it looked after the functioning of the administration and also the suffrage processes used to take place

Answer 2

Estates-General, also called States General, French États-Généraux, in France of the pre-Revolutionary monarchy, the representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy and nobility—which were privileged minorities—and a Third Estate, which represented the majority of the people.