Third Estate

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The Third Estate was the broad social class in pre-revolutionary France comprising commoners—everyone not part of the clergy or nobility—that became the driving force behind the French Revolution.

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French Crown → exercisedPowerOver → Third Estate →
Ancien Régime → hasEstate → Third Estate →
Estates-General of 1789 → hasEstate → Third Estate →
Three Estates → hasEstate → Third Estate →
Scottish Estates → hasPart → Third Estate →
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès → notableWork → Third Estate →
this entity surface form: "What Is the Third Estate?"
this entity surface form: "Qu’est-ce que le Tiers-État ?"
Kingdom of France → socialClass → Third Estate →
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