Estates of the realm

The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning Book Review Tim Blannings Romantic Revolution book reveals a movement that started 200 years ago and has continued to shape the world around us. He focuses on the political change that took place in France in 1789 when the French people overthrew there monarch that secured independence and freedom and an economic change that took place with the massive industrialisation of Britain. These revolutions changed the society, life, and culture and had massive…

Revolution started in 1789 when the Third Estate (the commoners) of France revolted against the government. They were unhappy that they had to pay disproportionately high taxes, and were underrepresented in the voting of the Estates General (the governing body). As the Third Estate learned of the ideas of the Enlightenment, they became the leaders of the French Revolution. The common folk owned much more land than the First Estate (the Church) and the Second Estate (the Nobles), but they had…

social classes. France was divided into three groups called estates. The First Estate was made up of clergymen, who owned 10% of land in France, and the Second Estate was nobility and royalty. They owned 20-30% of the land. These two estates were the top two provinces and they were exempt from paying taxes. The rest of the people in France belonged to the Third Estate, which was roughly 97% of the population. It was the only taxed estate and was commonly…

In the third estate in France, the people were not treated as equal as the people in the estates above them. Document #5 describes this situation when it says: “Every citizen has the right to participate personally or through his representative in its formation. ...All citizens, being equal in the eyes of…

bankruptcy of France, the inequality of the Estates, and the slaughtering at the Bastille. Bankruptcy was a repeating problem for the French government. This bankruptcy began when France went to the 7 years war. As rivals against Britain, Louis did not hesitate to go to war with Britain. The only problem with this was that the…

experienced many years of inequality and oppression with the members of the Third Estate having to pay the most. In the midst of a financial crisis, the country of France was barely surviving on its own, and the unclear distinctions between the social classes was not helping. In order to fix the country, France drew inspiration from both its own citizens and from citizens in the colonies abroad. Abbé Sieyès’s What is the Third Estate? and the Declaration of Independence marked the beginning of…

equality between the three estates. Since France created the new democracy, it also originated nationalism. The revolution changed the economy by having financial difficulties and caused the influence of the American Revolution. From the beginning of world history, the french revolution was one of the most significants events: since it developed a democracy for the world to follow. France generated a hierarchy that included three separated divisions, these were known as estates. There was the…

A sizeable portion of the Third Estate was exceedingly poor to the degree that they had little choice but to seek change. When such change was denied them, the peasantry revolted. Most conflict has some underlying economic cause, whether it be taking resources from another, or generating a source of income by creating such conflict. In this case, however, the lower class was allowed to starve until it was too late to reverse the vengeance towards the upper classes that had built up because of…

the King shares the power with no one else beside himself and God. The Estate-General was one major cause of the French Revolution. The people of the French society were broken up into three estates; the members of the Roman Catholic Clergy were on top of the hierarchy, referred to as the First Estate (17). The Nobels were in the Second Estate, they made up about 2% of society and owned about 20% of the land (25). The Third Estate was made…

Due to the imbalances in the estates system and how King Louis XVI ruled France The Estates system was a social class that separated into three groups. First Estate was the Clergy or people who worked for the church. Only 1% of the population were in this class. Second Estate was the Nobles or people of high birth who made up 2% of the population. Then comes the Third estate, with 97% of the population in this class, they were awfully treated the worst. The third estates had to pay higher…