About 80% of the Third Estate were agricultural workers or peasants who lived and worked on the land owned by the Nobility or the Catholic Church. They were the subsistence farmers, swineherds, shepherds, dairymen, milkmaids and vinters who produced the grain, meat, produce and wine that fed and clothed the nation.
The French Third Estate consisted mostly of commoners. The leaders of this social class formed the National Assembly, which effectively began the French Revolution.
Everybody who wasn't the clergy or the leaders
The National Assembly.
The Lowest Class
The Clergy - Bishops and Priests
June 17, 1789
The third estate. The first estate was made up of the clergy, the second estate was made up of the nobles and the peasants made up the third estate.
The peasants/common people were in the Third Estate. The wealthy merchant class was also in the Third Estate. The Second Estate were the nobility. The First Estate was the church/clergy.
The relationship of the three estates in France is that the whole population of France was put into one of the three estates. The first estate contained only 1% of the population, the second estate contained 3 % of the population, and the third contained 96% of the population.
The second estate was the Nobility.
June 17, 1789
The Third Estate had as many members as the other two put together; but it was decreed that each Estate had ONE vote. That was why the Third Estate declared itself to be the National Assembly, and that declaration (the Tennis Court Oath affirmed it) was the start of the Revolution.
The Third Estate
National Assembly
Yes and no. The representatives of the Third Estate were middle class, but the Thirtd Estate itself was everyb ody who wasn't noble or a priest.
From 17 June to 9 July 1793.
There is no evidence of substance that supports this view.
The Third Estate to seek change that included a new tax code and a new government that was responsive to the people's needs.
If the estate is declared bankrupt by the court the heirs receive nothing and the creditors are out of luck.If the estate is declared bankrupt by the court the heirs receive nothing and the creditors are out of luck.If the estate is declared bankrupt by the court the heirs receive nothing and the creditors are out of luck.If the estate is declared bankrupt by the court the heirs receive nothing and the creditors are out of luck.
The Third Estate was the estate in which the bourgeoisie belonged to.
the members of the third estate had to pay money
The third estate consisted of the commoners/peasants.