The Estates General was split up into three estates or social classes. This system divided 25 million people into these estates very disproportionately. The first estate contained only one hundred thousand people, which was only a fraction of a percentage of the population. These people were referred to as the “clergy”. These people were part of the church. They weren’t even taxed really. They only had to give some sort of a gift to the government every five years, and they owned ten percent of the land in France. The second estate was composed of the “nobles”. The second estate composed of only four hundred thousand people, which was 1.6 percent of the population. These noblemen and noblewomen were the descendants of those who supposedly fought for France during the middle ages and these people owned about ¼ of the land. They too were hardly taxed at all. Then there was the third estate. They were essentially the leftovers. They were the people who weren’t nobility or part of the church. They ranged from the upper-middle class, the bourgeoisie, to peasants. They were the remaining 24.5 million Frenchmen. They w

- June 1789 – The Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly ending the Estates General

- July 1790 – Constitution written, and accepted by Louis XVI

- The poor were dealing a lot with the high grain prices and the low employment, however, due to the revolts and the National Assembly, they were able to gain more power and rights.

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