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France topic 1 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 120-350,000 Nobility (2nd Estate)
        
        Everyone else Peasants (3rd Estate
        
        Most wouldn't own land and would be paid by the nobility whose land they worked.
        
        Paid the most taxes
        
        Exempt from most direct and some indirect taxation (gabelle)
        
        In return they would fight for the king, though this was not necessary after the invention of a standing army
        
        Often granted monopolies
      - Exempt from direct taxation
        
        Responsible for poor relief and education
        
        Own a lot of land
        
        Paid by taxing the 3rd Estate (tithe)
  - - - Individual rights and freedoms that are unassailable (Rousseau)
      - Republicanism (Rousseau)
      - Separation of Church and State (Voltaire)
      - Knowledge should be accessible to all (Diderot)
      - Separation of governmental powers