90% of the French population was made up of ____. - Infinity Learn by Sri Chaitanya (2024)

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90% of the French population was made up of ____. - Infinity Learn by Sri Chaitanya? ›

Solution: 90% of the French population was made up of Peasants. Three estates made up French society during the French Revolution.

Explanation: Peasants made up about 90% of the total population of France.

During the French revolution, the French society was divided into three estates. The peasants belong to the third estate and have to pay all the taxes, the third estate constituted 97% of the population out of which most of them were peasants (About 90%).

The Third Estate: made up 97 percent of the population. This estate was made up of three diverse groups. First Group-Bourgeoisie or middle class: this group was bankers, factory owners, merchants, and professionals. Well educated and believed in the Enlightenment ideals.

the French kingdom contained roughly nineteen million peasants.

The Third Estate was made up of everyone else, from peasant farmers to the bourgeoisie – the wealthy business class. While the Second Estate was only 1% of the total population of France, the Third Estate was 96%, and had none of the rights and priviliges of the other two estates.

Most of the third estate about 80% were made up of peasants. This is the top of France's Old Regime (Ancient Regime).

Peasants made up 80% of the French population, and many of them lived in the countryside. Poverty and unemployment were rampant amongst this group; even in the best of times, it is estimated that 8 million people were unemployed, and in bad times 2-3 million more might join them.

Agricultural land (% of land area) in France was reported at 52.15 % in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources.

The highest estate, the 1st Estate, contained members of the Roman Catholic clergy. These included bishops, priests, and nuns among other religious figures in the country. Only about 0.5% of the population was part of the 1st Estate.

Which estate owned 10% of French land? ›

The First Estate consisted of the clergy and numbered about 130,000 people who owned approximately 10% of the land. – Clergy were exempt from the taille, France's chief tax.

The Third Estate (Everyone else)

Although the Third Estate made up 96% of the French population, they had none of the rights of the other two estates.

Philip IV (born 1268, Fontainebleau, France—died November 29, 1314, Fontainebleau) was the king of France from 1285 to 1314 (and of Navarre, as Philip I, from 1284 to 1305, ruling jointly with his wife, Joan I of Navarre).

Joan of Arc. Joan, called "the Maid," was a young peasant girl from the town of Domrémy in the French county of Lorraine who felt called by God to help the French king resist the English during the Hundred Years War.

People having their tax residence in France are subject to French tax. Thus, they are natural or legal persons either living in France, i.e. have their homes or principal residence in France; working in France; or having the center of their economic interests in France.

The Third Estate comprised all of those who were not members of the above and can be divided into two groups, urban and rural, together making up 98% of France's population. The urban included the bourgeoisie and wage-laborers. The rural included peasants.

98% of France's population made up the Third Estate. There were three sub-groups in the Third Estate.

Rise of the Third Estate

France's population, of course, had changed considerably since 1614. The non-aristocratic, middle-class members of the Third Estate now represented 98 percent of the people but could still be outvoted by the other two bodies.

Peasants comprised about 80% of the population, but the middle classes tripled over the century, reaching almost 10% of the population by 1789.