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French Revolution - History, W.I.P. - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Three estates
        
        The First Estate - The Clergy
        
        Consists of around 150,000 people
        
        ~150 bishops, 25,000 monks, 40,000 nuns, and 50,000 lower clergy (including parish preists)
        
        In charge of running the churches, and educating the people about religion. They reinforced the kings divine right to the throne
        
        Some of the higher ranking clegry had important positions in government, however a large portion were parish priests who were very poor
        
        Owned around 1/10th of the land
        
        The Clergy got money through land taxation, as well as tithes through the church
        
        Privileges
        
        Not Subject to the Taille (main tax)
        
        Couldn't be enlisted in the military
        
        Tried in separate courts made up of other members of the third estate
        
        The Second Estate - The Nobility
        
        Consisted of around 400,000 people
        
        The Noble Landowners of France, many of the older families had won land from the monarchy through their participation in war
        
        A few newer families had overtaken older families through business.
        
        Privileges
        
        Not Subject to tax, but were expected to serve the king's army as officers in the event of a war
        
        Owned around a third of France's land, and rented out to the third estate. collected lots of money through rent
        
        The Third Estate - The Commoners
        
        Consisted of around 23 million people, the other 95% of france
        
        The farmers, the peasantry, factory workers and the like.
        
        Most likely didn't own any land - rented from the second estate
        
        No money to act as support, in the event of a crisis the third estate would be the first to suffer
        
        No Privileges or power: they must join the army in the event of a war, and were still subject to all of the major taxes
        
        Around 10% were the land and business owners of France that were not tied to a noble family. called the Bourgeoise
        
        The Monarchy