Estates of the realm

social change is coupled with violence and as we have seen within the French Revolution those who are comfortable in an old regime will resist change to the point that the revolutionist have no choice but to resort to violence. In the end the Third estate has the recognition and rights they desired but at the cost of the other classes availability to these rights. Thus although the revolution, sparked by Enlightenment ideals,managed to instate some social change it fails to answer every problem…

seemed great unrest was rising between the three estates. This unrest in France’s society came from the poor conditions of the third estate, which was 97 percent of the population. The unfair conditions of the three estates lead to new-enlightened ideas, the French Revolution, and the Reign of Terror. Before the revolution France was under a political system of three social classes. The first estate was made up of Roman Catholic clergymen; these estates held just over 10 percent of land in…

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…

French peasants did not have any representation in government so they were unable to get what they needed. When the peasants were locked out of the Estates General meeting and King Louis did not agree with what they wanted, which was for each delegate to get a vote in each state, they were even more angered. As a result of this, the 3rd Estate citizens soon formed a National Assembly, which split into two groups. The Radicals opposed King Louis and the idea of a monarchy, which eventually led…

factors and had a huge effect on the rest of the world. When Louis XVI took control of France, the country was already in debt from financing the American Revolution. After several bad decisions made by Louis XVI, the idea of rebellion formed. The Third Estate was sick of the present government and demanded a new one. So, they formed an alliance with each other called the National Assembly. When led by Maximilien’s power, ideas of the Enlightenment came about and the new National Assembly…

concerns, drove the French Revolution up to the summer of 1794.” is incorrect. This historical uprising was sparked by all of these principles at one point or another. The feudal system in France divided the country into three classes, or estates. The first estate was the clergy, who had massive amounts of wealth and land in France. The second was made up by the nobility. At the time the aristocratic status of the nobility was more extravagant than ever. These people with royal blood would waste…

Society consisted of Third Estate. The Third Estate was made of the commoners and peasants of France. They didn’t have many rights or much money and their problems were ignored (Pipe, Jim 10). The main cause of the French Revolution was the structural inequality and unfair rights. This lead the Third Estate to believe that the Second and First Estates were enjoying life at the expense of their own lives and well being (The French Revolution 1- 2). When the Third Estate were tiered of not being…

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…

During the late 1700’s, the citizens of the Third Estate in France suffered from a severe economic crisis caused by deficit spending, failed harvests which led to famine, and tax inequality across the three estates. In June of 1789, the poor, hungry citizens of France rose up in revolution against the monarchy and overthrew the king’s rule in pursuit of a constitutional government. While the eventual arrival of the Age of Napoleon brought relative peace in France, his rule strayed from the…

It is questionable whether this would have occurred without the impetus provided by What is the Third Estate? and seems to be the greatest effect of the pamphlet. William Doyle disagrees in Aristocracy and its enemies in The Age of Revolution, saying that the importance of What is the Third Estate? “was to stoke up social resentment in advance of the elections by reiterating all the unmerited advantages enjoyed by the noble order at the expense of…