No, they were a class unto themselves.
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Good, but they considered themselves to be over taxed, unappreciated and misunderstood.
It meant the urban middle class, meaning lawyers, factory owners, doctors, etc. Basically, people who were doing well but weren't noble. The bourgeoisie made up approximately 8% of France's population at this time.
The bourgeoisie is the ruling/leech class. The bourgeoisie lives off the efforts of others and adds little if nothing to society.
The Third Estate was the estate in which the bourgeoisie belonged to.
The bourgeoisie was different than the rest of the third estae