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| Legally defined groupings of society. |
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| Powers and privileges of the French Catholic church made it a state within a state |
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| The Nobility: Held the highest positions in the church, army, and government. Exempt from taxes. |
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Everyone else: The bourgeoisie, peasants, and urban labourers.
96% of population |
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The most prestigious.
Families could trace their aristocratic status back several centuries. Many were officers in the king's army. |
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| Had purchased judicial offices in the parliaments - the high law courts and whose ranks included many former bourgeois. |
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| Condition of 21 million peasants was paradoxical. Were better off than eastern serfs. Rising Birthrate and lower wages hurt them, as did corrupt taxation system. |
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| Journeymen, craftsmen, and wage earners. They faced food shortage and material want akin to that of peasants. |
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| Weaknesses of the old regime |
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Inefficient Administration : France was an absolute Monarchy and no single law code.
Financial Disorders: Treasury was strained by wars (7 Years war and Austrian Succession) and support American Revolution. Few wealthy Frenchmen paid their fair share of taxes. |
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| labor services and fees that peasants had to pay to their lords. |
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| reviewed the judgments of lower courts and registered royal edicts. |
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| assembly of the estates of all France. |
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