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Name the three classes in France prior to the French Revolution?
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∙ 14y ago
The first estate was of the clergy. The second was of the nobility, and the third was everyone else: peasants, merchants, lawyers, industrial workers, artisans,
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe First Estate was the Catholic Clergy, the Second Estate consisted of the Nobles, and the balance was everyone else in the Third Estate.
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∙ 13y agoThe First Estate which consisted of the Catholic clergy, The Second Estate which included the nobles and the Third Estate which was mad up of everyone else.
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∙ 14y agoYou probably mean the Three Estates, which were:
The First Estate - the Clergy
The Second Estate - the Nobility
The Third Estate - everybody else
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∙ 15y agoNoble,Bourgeois,and Peasant
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∙ 13y agoThe Three Estates.
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What was the name of the middle class of people in France?
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Did France ever recover from the french revolution?
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What was the name of the middle class of people in France?
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How did realism begin?
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