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**__The first Estate __** The first estate consisted of the clergy. They were considered as the privileged estate because they were about the second and third estates. The clergy belonged to the French Catholic Church which held the most power. The first estate had this power for nearly 800 years. There was a lower and an upper clergy. The lower clergy were humble, poorly paid and are overworked village priests. (These are usually people who are from the 3rd estate wanting to move up to the 1st estate so they became a clergy.) The bishops and the abbots are considered as the upper clergy. Clergy responsibilities were registering births, marriages, and deaths. They also collect tithe (10% of annual income of workers.) They censored book and served as moral police. They also operated schools and hospitals and distribute relief to the poor. However nearly all of the clergy doesn’t abide to their responsibilities, they tend to neglect them. There were at least 10-15% land in France owned by the clergy that were tax free.

**__The second Estate __**

The second estate consisted mainly of the nobles. They were also the privileged estate. They help power within the Church, the army and the government. The 2nd estates didn’t have to pay taxes, they collect them. It was the 3rd estates that paid taxes. The nobles owned at least 30% of land. There were two levels of nobility. There were the nobility of the Sword who served the King in Versailles. Then there were the Nobility of the Robe. Because the King (Louis XIV) needed money, this level of nobility was created. These were the people who gave money to the King. The Nobility of the Robe were basically sucks-up. However, these people did support the enlightenment thinkers.

**__The Third Estates __** The 3rd estates consisted of everyone else who aren’t nobles or clergy. The estate consisted of bourgeoisies, peasants, and the artists. Within the 3rd estates there were also ranks as well. The Bourgeoisies were made up of merchants, manufactures, bankers, doctors, lawyers, intellectuals. Some of these people even have more many than the 2nd or 3rd estates. The bourgeoisie wanted all Church, army and government positions to be available to men with talents like them and they also wanted the constitution to limit the king’s power. Nevertheless, they also demand fair trials and religious tolerations. However, none of these were achieved because the 1st and 2nd estates voted against it. This was what stirred up the French Revolution. The 1st and 2nd estates were unwilling to change the constitutions to benefit everyone.

media type="custom" key="7132513" It all started in 1789 Let me tell you we were going through rough times Suppressed by Louis XVI And suppressed by the Ancient Regime
 * **French revolution Song** ||
 * Verse 1:

Nobility and clergy chillin just living it up In opposition on the bottom there was us Poor and broken suffering under the kings reign We all knew that this was the time for change

The third estate coming together was the key <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Time for movement time for National Assembly <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">King Louis showed us no support <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">So we kept if real, held it down on the tennis court

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Radical ideas called for a solution <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Swore an oath to give France a constitution <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Setting new goals to aim <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">And set forth to never look back from where we came

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Chorus: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Oh why, must we fight over control of this land? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">I want to be free, to live in equality, and give a kind of peace to France.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Verse 2: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">We knew that Louis was running against our cause <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">So in Bastille we broke in and we went off <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Destroying everyone and everything in sight <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">This began the mark of a ten year fight

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">We stormed Bastille, but we still got no participation <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">To help resolve this economic situation <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">What must we have to do? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">To get you realize and see the truth

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">The oath proposed by the Legislative Assembly <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Said that France would be a constitutional monarchy <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">But then after our first meeting <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Govern went to chaos and we lost three things

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">1.The war left us with a ruined economy <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">2.The legislation stopped the monarchy <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">3.The infamous Louis XVI <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">We lost him to the invention of the guillotine

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">[CHORUS]

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Verse 3: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Now by this time France was running out of control <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">This was when the Jacobins started to grab hold <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Prosecution was dread <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Cause thousands of innocent people were getting beheaded

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">These two dudes Jacques Herbet & Roux <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">They convinced the convention of their political views <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Engaged in a dispute with the Girodins <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Who didnt believe in the republic motion

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">In 94 Robespierre life got put to an end <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">The Thermidorians took over & wanted revenge <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">On most of the Jacobins who <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">Contributed to the reign of terror a year prior to

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">In the final years of the French Revolution <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">The Directory was created by the constitution <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">And in France there was peace <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 70%;">So Just for now I will live in ease || media type="custom" key="7122111"



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