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717: 170: 1778: 4080: 4092: 140: 4042: 910:. (He could not officially be made the finance minister because he was a Protestant.) Drastic inflation and simultaneous scarcity of food created a major famine in the winter of 1788–89. This led to widespread discontent, and produced a group of Third Estate representatives (612 exactly) pressing a comparatively radical set of reforms, much of it in alignment with the goals of acting finance minister Jacques Necker, but very much against the wishes of 582: 4104: 4068: 974: 43: 1742:. In 1815, when the Netherlands were united with Belgium and Luxemburg, the States General were divided into two chambers: the First Chamber and the Second Chamber. The members of the First Chamber were appointed for life by the King, while the members of the Second Chamber were elected by the members of the States Provincial. The States General resided in The Hague and Brussels in alternate years until 1830, when, as a result of the 1613:, ending the political privileges of the estates. The post-independence constitution of 1919 forbade ennoblement, and all tax privileges were abolished in 1920. The privileges of the estates were officially and finally abolished in 1995, although in legal practice, the privileges had long been unenforceable. As in Sweden, the nobility has not been officially abolished and records of nobility are still voluntarily maintained by the 2763: 1545:

farmland, which was not generally for sale but a hereditary property. After 1809, Swedish tenants renting a large enough farm (ten times larger than what was required of peasants owning their own farm) were included as well as non-nobility owning tax-exempt land. Their representatives to the Diet were elected indirectly: each municipality sent electors to elect the representative of an electoral district.

182: 275:, the taxpaying classes were considered as one, and with a very small aristocracy; this class/estate was as powerful as the monarchy itself. In Denmark, however, only owners of large tracts of land had any influence. Furthermore, the non-landowning poor could be left outside the estates, leaving them without political rights. 852:(serfs, or peasants working on a noble's land). The free peasants paid disproportionately high taxes compared to the other Estates and were unhappy because they wanted more rights. In addition, the First and Second Estates relied on the labour of the Third, which made the latter's inferior status all the more glaring. 1416:: at the Riksdag, each Estate voted as a single body. Since early 18th century, a bill needed the approval of at least three Estates to pass, and constitutional amendments required the approval of all Estates. Prior to the 18th century, the King had the right to cast a deciding vote if the Estates were split evenly. 491:

countryside in the period were filled by a large growth in population, agricultural production, technological innovations and urban centers; movements of reform and renewal attempted to sharpen the distinction between clerical and lay status, and power, recognized by the Church also had their effect.

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The new lords of the land identified themselves primarily as warriors, but because new technologies of warfare were expensive, and the fighting men required substantial material resources and considerable leisure to train, these needs had to be filled. The economic and political transformation of the

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affected the ethical, moral and religious lives and decisions of all. This led to mutual dependency between the secular and religious powers for guidance and protection, but over time and with the growing power of the kingdoms, competing secular realities increasingly diverged from religious idealism

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for commoners). Typically, only nobility were appointed to the highest church positions (bishops, archbishops, heads of religious orders, etc.), although low nobility could aspire to the highest church positions. Since clergy could not marry, such mobility was theoretically limited to one generation.

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and the religious orders, traditionally divided into "higher" and "lower" clergy. Although there was no formally recognized demarcation between the two categories, the upper clergy were, effectively, clerical nobility, from Second Estate families. In the time of Louis XVI, every bishop in France was

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From 1848 on, the Dutch Constitution provides that members of the Second Chamber be elected by the people (at first only by a limited portion of the male population; universal male and female suffrage exists since 1919), while the members of the First Chamber are chosen by the members of the States

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In Finland, this legal division existed until 1906, still drawing on the Swedish constitution of 1772. However, at the start of the 20th century most of the population did not belong to any Estate and had no political representation. A particularly large class were the rent farmers, who did not own

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Whilst the estates were never formulated in a way that prevented social mobility, the English (subsequently the British) parliament was formed along the classic estate lines, being composed of the "Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons". The tradition where the Lords Spiritual and Temporal sat

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Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General to deal with the economic problems and quell the growing discontent, but when he could not persuade them to rubber-stamp his 'ideal program', he sought to dissolve the assembly and take legislation into his own hands. However, the Third Estate held

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There are, first of all, the estates of the realm, but there are also the trades, the state of matrimony and that of virginity, the state of sin. At court, there are the 'four estates of the body and mouth': bread-masters, cup-bearers, carvers, and cooks. In the Church, there are sacerdotal orders

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In Sweden, the Riksdag of the Estates existed until it was replaced with a bicameral Riksdag in 1866, which gave political rights to anyone with a certain income or property. Nevertheless, many of the leading politicians of the 19th century continued to be drawn from the old estates, in that they

1529:. Entry to this Estate was controlled by the autonomy of the towns themselves. Peasants were allowed to sell their produce within the city limits, but any further trade, particularly foreign trade, was allowed only for burghers. In order for a settlement to become a city, a royal charter granting 1560:

of farms owned by others, farmhands, servants, some lower administrative workers, rural craftsmen, travelling salesmen, vagrants, and propertyless and unemployed people (who sometimes lived in strangers' houses). To reflect how the people belonging to the estates saw them, the Finnish word for

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of the 16th century. The second order, those who fight, was the rank of the politically powerful, ambitious, and dangerous. Kings took pains to ensure that it did not resist their authority. The general category of those who labour (specifically, those who were not knightly warriors or nobles)

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in England), which represented the majority in medieval times. Since most of the population were independent farmer families until the 19th century, not serfs nor villeins, there is a remarkable difference in tradition compared to other European countries. Entry was controlled by ownership of

443:. Monarchs often sought to legitimize their power by requiring oaths of fealty from the estates. Today, in most countries, the estates have lost all their legal privileges, and are mainly of historical interest. The nobility may be an exception, for instance due to legislation against 524:

lost much of its religious character and retained a more nominal universal preeminence over other rulers, though it varied. The struggle over investiture and the reform movement also legitimized all secular authorities, partly on the grounds of their obligation to enforce discipline.

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became the place where the States General assembled. On these occasions, deputies from the States of the various provinces (as the counties, prince-bishoprics and duchies were called) asked for more liberties. For this reason, the States General were not assembled very often.

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Konstantin M. Langmaier: Felix Hemmerli und der Dialog über den Adel und den Bauern (De nobilitate et rusticitate dialogus). Seine Bedeutung für die Erforschung der Mentalität des Adels im 15. Jahrhundert, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 166, 2018

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This static view of society was predicated on inherited positions. Commoners were universally considered the lowest order. The higher estates' necessary dependency on the commoners' production, however, often further divided the otherwise equal common people into

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In the 11th and 12th centuries, thinkers argued that human society consisted of three orders: those who pray, those who fight, and those who labour. The structure of the first order, the clergy, was in place by 1200 and remained singly intact until the

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diversified rapidly after the 11th century into the lively and energetic worlds of peasants, skilled artisans, merchants, financiers, lay professionals, and entrepreneurs, which together drove the European economy to its greatest achievements.

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Large realms of the nobility or clergy had estates of their own that could wield great power in local affairs. Power struggles between ruler and estates were comparable to similar events in the history of the British and French parliaments.

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out for their right to representation. The lower clergy (and some nobles and upper clergy) eventually sided with the Third Estate, and the King was forced to yield. Thus, the 1789 Estates General meeting became an invitation to revolution.

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to become part of another estate; those who did were usually being rewarded for extraordinary bravery in battle, or entering religious life. A few commoners were able to marry into the Second Estate, but this was a rare occurrence.

844:) comprised all of those who were not members of either of the above, and can be divided into two groups, urban and rural, together making up over 98% of France's population. The urban included wage-labourers. The rural included 1727:(National Assembly). It no longer consisted of representatives of the States, let alone the Estates: all men were considered equal under the 1798 Constitution. Eventually, the Netherlands became part of the French Empire under 358:

One field in which commoners could appreciably advance within a single lifetime was the Church. The medieval Church was an institution where social mobility was most likely achieved up to a certain level (generally to that of

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By the 12th century, most European political thinkers agreed that monarchy was the ideal form of governance. This was because it imitated on earth the model set by God for the universe; it was the form of government of the

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had previously represented them). In 1299, towns were represented. From the 14th century, a distinction from the English parliament was that deliberations on church funding were held in Parliament rather than in

1840:, a significant regional power in its part of Germany during the 15th Century, also had its own kind of Estates, a governing Federal Council comprising three Colleges: those of Princes, Cities, and Knights. 624:

The "lower clergy" (about equally divided between parish priests, monks, and nuns) constituted about 90 percent of the First Estate, which in 1789 numbered around 130,000 (about 0.5% of the population).

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There was also a population outside the estates. Unlike in other areas, people had no "default" estate, and were not peasants unless they came from a land-owner's family. A summary of this division is:

1874:, rural dwellers, and urban dwellers, with a more detailed stratification therein. The division in estates was of mixed nature: traditional, occupational, as well as formal: for example, voting in 1620:

In Finland, it is still illegal and punishable by jail time (up to one year) to defraud into marriage by declaring a false name or estate (Rikoslaki 18 luku § 1/Strafflagen 18 kap. § 1).

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They had a hard life of physical labour and food shortages. Most people were born in this group, and most remained in it for their entire lives. It was extremely rare for people of this

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were either noblemen themselves, or represented agricultural and urban interests. Ennoblements continued even after the estates had lost their political importance, with the last

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such that each of the three classes would first vote internally, giving one vote per class in the assembly. This resulted in great political influence for the higher nobility.

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designated a great variety of social realities, not at all limited to a class, Huizinga concluded applying to every social function, every trade, every recognisable grouping.

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were traditionally grouped along lines of these estates, with the monarch above all three estates. Meetings of the estates of the realm became early legislative and judicial

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taxation arrangements. Elected representatives are first attested in 1297 and continually from the later 14th century. In 1297, counties were first represented by elected

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observed that "Medieval political speculation is imbued to the marrow with the idea of a structure of society based upon distinct orders". The virtually synonymous terms

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wrote that the General Court of Catalonia, during the 14th century, had a more defined organization and met more regularly than the parliaments of England or France.

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Provincial. As a result, the Second Chamber became the most important. The First Chamber is also called Senate. This however, is not a term used in the Constitution.

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Abbé Sieyès : Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-Etat ? Tout. Qu'a-t-il été jusque-là dans l'ordre politique ? Rien. Que demande-t-il ? A être quelque chose.

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invokes medieval three-estate systems, and usually refers to some particular force outside that medieval power structure, most commonly the independent press or the

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In England, a two-estate system evolved that combined nobility and clergy into one lordly estate with "commons" as the second estate. This system produced the two

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of the realm's surrounding lands and villages. A person's estate and position within it were usually inherited from the father and his occupation, similar to a

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rights. After the annexation of Finland into Imperial Russia in 1809, mill-owners and other proto-industrialists would gradually be included in this estate.

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During that time, the States General were formed by representatives of the States (i.e. provincial parliaments) of the seven provinces. In each States (a

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class) and rural commoners were split into separate estates, creating a four-estate system with rural commoners ranking the lowest as the Fourth Estate.

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By June, when continued impasses led to further deterioration in relations, the Estates General was reconstituted in a different form, first as the

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This unitary body of former representatives of the three estates began governing, along with an emergency committee, in the power vacuum after the

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After regaining independence in November 1813, the name "States General" was resurrected for a legislature constituted in 1814 and elected by the

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has shown that in the period 1023–1025 the first theorist who justified the division of European society into the three estates of the realm was

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power. It was the level of government where all things were dealt with that were of concern to all the seven provinces that became part of the

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elected by the lower clergy of each diocese formed a separate house or estate until 1537, when they were expelled for their opposition to the

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This article is about the medieval European concept of social hierarchy. For the modern concept of partitioning the government, see

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in 1302 and then met intermittently at the request of the King until 1614; after that, it was not called again for over 170 years.

107: 2741: 2717: 3838: 3776: 2177: 1052:, the British Parliament still recognises the existence of the three estates: the Commons in the House of Commons, the nobility ( 79: 3818: 3149: 2795: 934: 933:, during which – after several more weeks of civil unrest – the body assumed a new status as a revolutionary legislature, the 3813: 2342: 1514:. In later centuries, the estate included teachers of universities and certain state schools. The estate was governed by the 995: 922: 887:

The Estates General (not to be confused with a "class of citizen") was a general citizens' assembly that was first called by

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the land they cultivated but had to work in the land-owner's farm to pay their rent (unlike Russia, there were no slaves or

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who would years later become instrumental in the turbulent period of violence and political upheaval in France known as the

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Satire of the three estates from 1789; the hard-working Third Estate carries the lazy nobility and clergy. The legend reads

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and the Christian Biblical basis, the later Roman Empire, and also the peoples who succeeded Rome after the 4th century.

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was reconvened only in 1863. In the meantime, for a period of 54 years, the country was governed only administratively.

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As a government, the States General of the Dutch Republic were abolished in 1795. A new parliament was created, called

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ideology had got the upper hand, and the burghers had the exclusive right to conduct commerce within the framework of

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at will, at a place of his choosing. Cortes which brought all three estates together are sometimes distinguished as

1021: 126: 1976:) that started in the 11th century. The members of the Catalan Courts were organized in the Three Estates (Catalan: 1003: 4139: 4124: 3716: 1746:, The Hague became once again the sole residence of the States General, Brussels instead hosting the newly founded 1230: 1206: 1035: 272: 2716:, West Publishing Co. Minneapolis, 1994 for the English-language version of the quote from Abbé Sieyès, quoted at 2227: 1569:): every estateless person had to be employed by a taxed citizen from the estates, or they could be charged with 1404:. Each were free men, and had specific rights and responsibilities, and the right to send representatives to the 75: 2309:"History of Europe – Middle Ages – From territorial principalities to territorial monarchies – The three orders" 1186:

or member of the lower nobility. Because the Parliament of Scotland was unicameral, all members sat in the same

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History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV

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In the Southern Netherlands, the last meetings of the States General loyal to the Habsburgs took place in the

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which consecrated its ministers and appointed them to positions with a vote in choosing diet representatives.

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Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689–1830

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was codified in 1818 in accordance with the old Swedish law of 1723. However, after the Diet of Porvoo, the

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and independent villages. The power of the Imperial Diet was limited, despite efforts of centralization.

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in 1579 and the events that followed afterwards, the States General declared that they no longer obeyed

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Ordering Medieval Society: Perspectives on Intellectual and Practical Modes of Shaping Social Relations

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After Russia's conquest of Finland in 1809, the estates in Finland swore an oath to the Emperor in the

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were added, and in 1625 the House of Nobility was codified as the First Estate of the land. Following

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Burghers were city-dwellers, tradesmen and craftsmen. Trade was allowed only in the cities when the

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The parliamentary institution was abolished in 1716, together with the rest of institutions of the

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Botham, F. W.; Hunt, E. H. (August 1987). "Wages in Britain during the Industrial Revolution".

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Peasants were land-owners of land-taxed farms and their families (comparable in status to

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Richardson, H. G. (October 1943). "The Irish Parliament Rolls of the Fifteenth Century".

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taking place in 1902; this practice was formally abolished with the adoption of the new

1086:: Thre Estaitis), also known as the community of the realm, and until 1690 composed of: 4134: 3560: 3542: 3537: 3525: 3359: 3178: 3158: 3128: 2910: 2882: 2562: 2425: 2413: 2391: 2348: 2057: 1942: 1822: 1743: 1256: 1226: 1214: 945: 898:, France was in the grip of an unmanageable public debt. In May 1776, finance minister 521: 2531:

Mann, Alastair, "A Brief History of an Ancient Institution: The Scottish Parliament",

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O'Callaghan, J.F. (2003) "Cortes, Leon, Castile and Portugal" in E.M. Gerli, editor,

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from 1585 onward. Without a king to rule the country, the States General became the

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Pelz, William A. (2016). "The Rise of the Third Estate: The French People Revolt".

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The Second Estate constituted approximately 1.5% of France's population. Under the

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In southern Germany, a three-estate system of nobility (princes and high clergy),

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of the Church of Ireland in 1871, no more seats were created for Irish bishops.

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One of the earliest political pamphlets to address these ideas was called "

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A 13th-century French representation of the tripartite social order of the

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and sentenced to forced labor. In Finland, this policy lasted until 1883.

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The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution

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and monastic orders. Finally there are the different orders of chivalry.

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a nobleman, a situation that had not existed before the 18th century.

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was an assembly of representatives of the estates of the realm – the

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in London, while a selection of hereditary peers (typically about 28

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in January 1789, shortly before the start of the French Revolution.

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was used; this system excluded lower clergy and peasants altogether.

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of the late 11th and early 12th centuries, the powerful office of

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Steven Kreis lecture on "The Origins of the French Revolution"

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was dismissed, after failing to enact reforms. The next year,

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15th-century French artwork depicting the Three Estates, with

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was required, and foreign trade required royally chartered

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and three bishops at a time, alternating place after each

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in the Third Estate when the French Revolution started.

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