Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Three Estates
- First estate
- About 130,000 people
- The clergy
- 138 archbishops and bishops
- 2,800 canons and priors
- 37,000 nuns and 23,000 monks
- 60,000 parish priests
- Privileges
- Had their own law courts
- Didn't have to pay certain taxes
- Second estate
- Between 120,000 and 350,000 people
- Nobility
- King and Queen
- Nobles of the sword
- Princes of royal blood
- Dukes
- Counts and Viscounts
- Marquises
- Barons
- Knights
- Privileges
- The right to carry a sword
- Special treatment in law courts
- Didn't have to pay certain taxes
- Didn't have to do military service
- Third Estate
- About 27 million people
- Everybody else
- Lawyers
- Doctors
- Businessmen
- Merchants
- Soldiers
- Craftsmen
- Shopkeepers
- Peasants
- Privelages
- None