Estates of the realm

were divided into three large social classes called estates. The First Estate held the clergy, the Second Estate was rich nobles, and finally the Third estate was everybody else, they remain 97% of the population. In the late 1780’s French people were faced starvation because of the bad harvest. Also, France was in huge debt due to King Louis XIV and his queen, Marie Antoinette, who continued to live on the top of luxury life. Meeting of the Estates General Louis found the solution which was…

be the third estate and everyone riding on him would be the first and second. The author of this source would have been a third estate sympathist, showing that the third estate was the backbone or the horse that carried the other estates around. The third estate being made up of the majority of people had to give the most. They paid more taxes and no say in government they were blindly led around chained to the never ending chain of poverty. Abbe Sieyes, a friend to the third estate tried to…

Explain how the Enlightenment, The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution led to the development of Sociology as a social science. A number of events contributed to the development of Sociology as a social science. Firstly, the Enlightenment was a time of improvements made in science, politics and philosophy. During the 1600s and 1700s the Enlightenment thinkers questioned superstition and tradition, they embraced scientific methods in order to gain an understanding of the world in a…

The Romantic Era is commonly known as the time period between 1825-1900. The romantic area can be classified by a turn in music towards individualism, when looking back on the previous era, the classical era, it is noticed that the romantic era contains much more reflection on the composers emotions. This essay will discuss the political power, economics, society and science in regards to music in this era of musical brilliance. The political power during the romantic era became influenced by…

people and a push away from the Old Regime social structure. Under the French Old Regime there were three estates, or classes. The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate was the nobility, and the Third Estate was the working class. It was made of the Bourgeoisie, or middle class, the workers, and the peasants. The clergy and nobility were in control and did not pay taxes. The Third Estate, however, paid extremely high taxes and did all the farming, building, and other labors. In 1770s,…

French Revolution, the 3rd Estate had almost no voice in the government and they also paid a majority of the country’s taxes. When the country had too many debts to pay off, the king decided to hold a meeting to decide which estate would pay more taxes. The 1st and 2nd Estate voted(3rd Estate had only 1 vote) on the 3rd Estate paying the extra taxes. This meeting was known as the Estates General, and was one of the major catalysts leading to the revolution. The 3rd Estate began to see that they…

Part B The French Revolution was the most violent and universally significant if all the similar revolutions in the West of the 18th century. The feudal regime had been weakened, which resulted in poor conditions for the peasants. Wealthy merchants and commoners, often called the bourgeoisie, wanted more political power, while peasants, who had attained a fairly good standard of living, wanted feudalism to burn out so that they could own land (since they had the capability to do that). Since…

times as the high taxes are crushing the peasants. 2. a. The conclusion that I can draw about the relationship between the percentage of the population in each estate and the percentage of land owned by each estate is that the larger the percentage of the population in each estate, the larger the percentage of land owned by that estate. b. The unfair conditions that existed in pre-revolutionary France were that the…

Estate- The way the population was divided as it had been since the Middle Ages, into three orders. Relics of feudalism- aristocratic privileges which were obligations that survived from an earlier age. Bourgeoisie- a middle class which was another part of the third estate. Sans- culottes- ordinary patriots without fine clothes. 2. Louis XVI- also known as Louis Capet, he was king of France and was forced to call a meeting of the Estates- General to raise new taxes. Tennis Court Oath- the…

levels. This caused the middle class to seek a constitutional monarch. The deputies of the Third Estate, who represent commoners and the lower clergy, met on an indoor tennis court, in dissent of King Louis XVI’s order to disperse. The document the national assembly…