Catholic priests. The "first estate" under the French pre-revolutionary Ancien Régime was the clergy.
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The FIRST estate was the Clergy - Bishops and priests, Abbotts, monks and friars. Their representatives were mainly Bishops and Abbotts, all appointed by the King and all members of the nobility by birth.
The SECOND estate was the Nobility - from Princes and Dukes down to local squires and all their sons - every child of a noble was noble by birth.
The tird estate, of course, was everybody else.
First Estate: Clergy
(Second estate:Nobility)
Third estate: Everyone else; peasants, middle class etc.)
first estate second estate and third estate.
The first estate was made up of clergies The second estate was made up of nobilities The third estate was made up of everyone who is not included in the first and second estate (According to Abbe Sieyes "what is the 3rd estate?" - everything)
The Catholic Clergy made up the First Estate. The French Nobles made up the Second Estate. The commoners were all lumped into the Third Estate.
Everyone else excluding the 1st estate and 2nd estate, so the bourgeois made up the third estate. Particularly the rich people.
The first Estate was the Clergy, the second the nobility, and the third, well, everyone else, rich and poor, from rich Bourgeois to famished peasants. The third estate is the one that paid all the taxes.