social classes called estates. At the top was the king and below him was the first estate that consisted of the clergy and priests. Below them was the second estate and this is where the nobles stood. Lastly at the bottom was the third estate and this was made up of the majority of the population and they were known as commoners. Life wasn’t easy at the time especially because France was in an economic crisis. Our story will follow the life of “Billy”, a peasant in the third estate. We will get…
Home is where the heart is. While many people take the saying loosely, stitching it on copious throw pillows, poet Savannah Brown takes it literally. Every body part has a room to correlate to. Throughout Savannah Brown’s “real estate,” the speaker continuously describes herself by comparing herself to a home. The speaker begins the poem describing the type of home she is. She says, “i am my own / i have built myself a one bedroom / single bed home in my bones” (1-3). Clearly, a one bedroom,…
because the bourgeoisie wanted more freedom. In France around the 1700’s the three estates (Clergy, Nobles, Bourgeoisie/Peasants) faced 3 different kinds of oppression, political, economic, and social oppression. The first estate known as the Clergy or the Catholic Church did not like the enlightenment ideas. The second estate were the nobles. They had 2% of the population but owned 20% of land and paid no taxes. This estate also did not…
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main ranks were the First Estate, Second Estate, and Third Estate. The monarch, however, stood above all social rankings. The First Estate was the highest of the social class pyramid. They consisted of well educated clergymen, had access to high offices, and did not pay any taxes. The Second Estate was below the First Estate. They were wealthy nobles who were spared from paying taxes. Together, the First and Second Estate, made up of about 2% of the population. The Third Estate was at the bottom…
noblesse oblige is heavily neglected because the aristocracy has a deep hatred for the third estate, the aristocracy uses their riches for their own personal gain, and the rich make no effort to help the less fortunate. The upper class of France during the French Revolution constituted only three percent of the population, yet a majority of those in the first and second estate disrespect and detest the third estate completely. Monsieur the Marquis, a character in the text, displays a strong…
During the French Revolution we to see how the French society begins to drastically change. The revolution starts in 1789 and lasts until 1799. The old regime of France divided France into three social groups, called estates. The first estate is the clergy. The second is the Nobility and the Third includes the middle class, the urban working class and the peasants. The clergy and nobility had many rights and owned together 35% of the land while only making up 5% of the population. They didn’t…
Pre-revolutionary society was split up into three estates, the clergy in the First Estate, the nobility in the Second Estate, and everybody else in the Third Estate (@). All three estates had the same amount of power in the government despite the fact that the Third Estate contained eighty percent of the population of France (@). Recent poor harvests had decreased the income of the peasants and led to increased…
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