The Nobles of the Second Estate. it's First estate for a+
The Nobles.
By making the First estate and the Second estate pay taxes and thus contribute to France's budget.
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A+ The second estate in France in the 1700s.
second estate
The First Estate was the Catholic Clergy. The Second Estate was the Nobility. The Third Estate were the working stiffs who owned property and paid taxes.
The First Estate was the clergy. The Second Estate was the nobility. The Third Estate was basically everyone else in France, but its representatives in the Estates General were typically wealthy members from the commercial and professional middle classes.
The class of nobles was the Second Estate.
The relationship of the three estates in France is that the whole population of France was put into one of the three estates. The first estate contained only 1% of the population, the second estate contained 3 % of the population, and the third contained 96% of the population.
The First Estate, speaking in terms of the Kingdom of France, was comprised entirely of The Clergy.
The Third Estate (le Tiers-État) made up the vast bulk, nearly 99% of France's population. Most of these people were peasants and day laborers. The two other estates were the Clergy and the Nobility.