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Why does third estate people means common people suppose to give tax in french revolution why not second & first estate ?

It can be understood as:
  1. Clergy and nobility formed the first estate and the second estate respectively. The privileges enjoyed by both were by virtue of birth.
  2. The most significant one was exemption from paying taxes to the state.
  3. Both the clergy and the nobility owned feudal rights while the peasants bore the burden of France’s wars and heavy taxes.
  4. The peasants also had to pay tithes to the Church and eventually, all members of the third estate had to pay taxes to the state.
  5. This also included a direct tax, called taille, and several indirect taxes which were charged even on things like salt or tobacco.
  6. Thus the taxes were paid by the third estate alone.

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First estate people were clergy second were nobality third were working people. Third estate people were cheated by first and second estate generally no ans is there in book I am saying by my own my teacher told me that first and second estate were rich so there was no tax for them
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The main reason of this was Discrimination . The third estate people were not too important to king and by the way the other two estate people were rich and wealthy .
 
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