what were the social causes that aggravated the revolution
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Under the Ancien Régime they were part of the Third Estate, as they were neither clergymen (the First Estate) or nobles (the Second Estate). Given their powerful economic position, and their aspirations on a class-wide level, the bourgeois wanted to ascend through the social hierarchy which was formalised, as aforementioned, into the Estate system. This is reflected by cahiers submitted by members of the Third Estate in March to April 1789: those of Carcassonne demanded that Louis "assure to the third estate the influence to which it is entitled in view of...its contribution to the public treasury".[2] This desire for higher social position resulted in high levels of bourgeois entryism into the Second Estate throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. This entryism was enabled by several factors, for example the poverty of many noble families meant that they married bourgeois families; the nobles gained bourgeois wealth, the bourgeois gained noble status. Moreover, corruption was rife, with many bourgeois simply attaching the noble particle 'de' to their name, or assuming nonexistent titles. Investigations into this behaviour were stopped in 1727.