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"The burden of financial activities was born by the third estate alone." Explain the statement.

In the French State of the Old Regime, The french society was divided into three estates-The Clergy, The Nobility and the Third Estate. The clergy consisted of churchmen with special functions in the Church. The Clergy made up 0.8 percent of the total french population and yet they wielded a lot of power and influence over the Monarch and the society.They extracted Tithes, a tax which consisted of 1/10th of the agricultural produce from the peasants. The nobility consisted of the royalty(except the monarch), nobles and landlords. They too had feudal privileges. The First Estate ( The clergy) and the Second Estate( the Nobility) had a lot of privileges and exemptions granted by the French State. The most important of these exemptions was the exemption of paying taxes to the French government. So all the taxes had to be paid by the Third Estate. The peasants of the Third Estate also had to pay Tithes to the Church and feudal dues to the landlords. The Third Estate also had to pay a direct tax to the State called Taille. As we know, a government collects these taxes in order to use it for various purposes such as maintenance of the offices, courts and the royal army. Unlike an ideal government where the poorest should be exempted from paying taxes it was quite the opposite in France. The poor became poorer  and taxes therefore became a burden.
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In the French society there were three estates. The first estate  (Clergy) and the second estate (Nobility) enjoyed a lot of privileges. But the third estste never enjoyed the privilegies which were enjoyed by the Cleries and the Nobles. The Clergies and the Nobles never paid taxes, all the taxes were paid by the people of third estate.
The new king ascended the throne of France and he came to know that the treasury of France is empty. Then he increased the taxes, by which the people of third estate were not able to pay the taxes, because the people of third estate were were very poor. Like this, the poor became poorer and therefore taxes became financial burden for the people of third estate alone.
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THERE WERE THREE ''ESTATE'' IN THE FRANCE. CLERGIES,NOBLE AND 3rd ESTATE. CLERGIES AND NOBLE PEOPLE WERE VERY RICH AND THE 3rd ESTATE PEOPLE WERE VERY POOR. ONLY CLERGIES AND NOBLE PEOPLE ENJOYED THEIR LIFE, BUT 3rd ESTATE  PEOPLE DID NOT ENJOYED THEIR LIFE AS CLERGIES AND NOBLE PEOPLE. 

AT THAT TIME LOUIS XVI WAS KING OF FRANCE. HE MARRIED TO THE PRINCESS OF AUSTRIA MARIE ANTOINITTE. SHE JUST ENJOYED HER LIFE GRAND WITHOUT THINKING OF THE WEALTH. WHEN LOUIS XVI CAME TO KNOW THAT THE WEALTH IS GETTING EMPTY HE THEN PUT HIGH TAXES ON EACH AND EVERYTHING. THESE TAXES WERE ONLY FOR 
​3rd ESTATE PEOPLE, BUT THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO PAY TAXES BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY POOR. LIKE THIS POOR BECAME MORE AND MORE POORER. 

LIKE THIS ''THE BURDEN OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES WAS BORN BY THE THIRD ESTATE ALONE''

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The French society was divided into three class at clergy , novelist ,
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The French society was divided into three class Clergy , Noblist , Third estate . But only the third has to pay taxes and first and second class were enjoying . But the people under the third class were not getting enough income by the tax which they paid were less and this lead a finacial problem in france under the rule of Louis IX .
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