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The Three Estates ✔✔The three orders of France: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else. The First Estate ✔✔The clergy The Second Estate ✔✔The nobility or the descendants of "those w... ho fought" in the Middle Ages. The Third Estate ✔✔The commoners of France that consisted of, prosperous merchants and lawyers as well as peasants, rural agricultural workers, urban artist, and unskilled day laborers. The bourgeoisie ✔✔The comfortable members of the third estate, or upper middle class. Rose up to lead the entire third estate in the revolution. Louis XV ✔✔The Sun King was succeeded by this five year old great grandson. Under his rule and the young monarchs regent the duke of Orleans the system of absolutist rule was challenged. The Duke of Orleans ✔✔The regent under Louis XV who gave the Parliament their ancient right to evaluate royal decrees publicly in writing before they were registered and given the force of law. This was a fateful step when citizens protested authority after France went into financial crisis after the wars of The Austrian Succession, the Seven Year's War, and the American Revolution. Rene de Maupeou ✔✔In 1768, Louis appointed this tough career official as chancellor and ordered him to crush any ju [Show More]

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