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This is a picture of landlords hunting over the lands owned by the peasants. During the french revolution, the peasants were not allowed to kill rabbits or pigeons, so that their landlords can have their hunting activity on their crops, even it it effects their farming.

Notes:
 * French revolution begun in 1789
 * there are 4 different casts - peasants(20 million people), town workers(2 million people), bourgeois(2 million people), and the nobles(120000 - 350000 people).
 * first estate - Nobles - people who worked at the churches
 * second estate - Bourgeois - Royal blood
 * third estate - Peasants, workers - people who do farming, doctors, etc.
 * first estates privileges - do not need to pay certain taxes, and had their own law courts
 * second estates privileges - can carry weapons, did not have to pay certain taxes, got special treatment in law courts.
 * third estate - none
 * poverty was shown throughout france, "an entire family lives in a single room,in which the four walls are bare, the beds have no covers, and the kitchen things are piled up with the chamber pots. all the furniture together is worth 20 pounds" (Revolution in france book).
 * the privileges the first and second estates have, is that they do not need to pay such high taxes, as the 15% - 20% yearly income taxes the third estate pays
 * there were many unequal enforced law in the france revolution. such as, peasants were not allowed to own their own oven, and has to pay a landlord in order to bake their own food. useing the windmill and press, the peasants also have to pay their landlord in order to use it.
 * the landlord, is allowed to hunt on peasants crops, even destroying the crops. they hunt for pigeons and rabbits, who the peasants are not allowed to kill even if they harmed their crops.
 * the peasants had to pay taxes to the landlord each year, and addition to that a large portion of their crops.
 * people had to pay a tenth of their yearly income to the churches.
 * a group of educated people, realized the unfair society, and decided to question it, they are the philosophy.

Questions:
 * Why did it take so long for people to start questioning the unequal governing?
 * why were the nobles in a higher class than the royal kings and queens?