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French revolution Social class The Three estates Table of Three Estates * middle ages nobles had been soldiers, fighting for france, ran the countrys education and religious right, king gaveclergy their own estates and privileges, by 1789 they were less important. || 138 archbihops, 28000 canons and priors 37000 nun and 23000 monks 60,000 parish priests || || the king and queen nobles of the sword princes of royal blood dukes marquises counts viscounts barons knights. ||
 * took part in violent revo.
 * all over france
 * violence changed life
 * destroyed everything, governemtn laws religion
 * Peasants 20 million farmers
 * Town workers 2 million (traders shopkeepers craftsmen, builders
 * boureois 2 million (middle class)
 * Noble 120,000-350,000 land owning, ruleing class
 * french law, peoepl blonged to estates.
 * First estate - elergy, people who made a living by working in the churt
 * Second, were the nobility.
 * Third was eveyrbody else.
 * mattered because people in first and second estate had privlages or rights, advantages(financial certain taxes)
 * Estates || Privleges || Population ||
 * First Estate (clergy) || *  had their own law courts,
 *  did not hav to pay certain taxes
 * Second Estate (nobility) || *  had the right to carry a sword
 *  got special treatmnet in law courts
 *  did not have to pay certain taxes
 *  did no hav to do military service
 * Third Estate || none || everyone else: lawyers doctors merchants etc. ||

Poverty
 * greatest inequality wealth.
 * big difference between poor and rich.
 * so poor relied on charity to survive.
 * lived under very hard circumstances
 * government worked out that a family of 5 needed 435 pounds a year for its basic needs. 202 for basic need and 233 for food

Unequal taxation
 * poor, still pay taxes.
 * two types of tax, 1 tax paid directly to governemnt 2 indirect taxes which peopel paid whenever they bought certian goods
 * 10-15% of yearly income to government.
 * some did not hav to pay tax
 * nobles, clergy did not have to pay a lot of the tax, and when they did they did not pay more than anyone else

Feudal Rights and Dues Dues
 * right of the oven, mill, press, hunt( landlord to ride over fields while hunting), warren(keep rabbits), dovecote(keep pigeons) market rights, pay tax on produce which tehy took to markets held on the lords land.
 * corvee - do several days of unpaid work for land lord each eyar
 * Cens- peasnts had to pay tax to the landlord each year
 * Champart- peasants had to give the landlord a protion of their crops each year
 * Also had to give the church a tithe. (giving them 1/10th of yearly income)

Philosophes The Calas affair
 * educated people, who questioned how the citiy was organised.
 * group of writers journalists scientiests,. shared thinking. Reason.
 * only way to know if something was true was to observe and test it.
 * Example
 * Lavoisier, became famous, discovering hwo things burn.
 * before they thought eveyrthign burned contained phlogiston,, but Lavoisier studied it and believed it was wrong. suggested instead that things burned when burning material combined with discovered gas.
 * Involved in social and political issues.
 * built farm to try out different methods.
 * most famous, Writer Voltaire.
 * questioned power and belief of French Church
 * Jean Calas, merchant, living among catholics, son hung himself , people beleived calas murdered his own son, to stop him converting to the catholic faith. later on executed in public.
 * Voltairebelieved he was innocent. found him guilty because he was a protestant. cleared calas's name.
 * Major wrongs in french society, refusal to allow non catholics to follow their own religion, cruelty of law.

Change in public opinion
 * 1780 most educated people agreed on a number of basic i deas and values.
 * more humane, torture free system. favoured non catholics.

Summary The French revolution was divided into three estates. First estate - elergy, people who made a living by working in the churt Second, were the nobility. Third was eveyrbody else. The three estates mattered because people in first and second estate had privlages or rights, advantages(financial certain taxes). Philosphes also took part during the french revolution they tested eveyrhting out. During the french revolutions it was really unfair, unqeual taxation, and they had "Dues" to complete.

Questions Why did they did not notice the injustice early on?

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