Second Estate

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The Second Estate was the privileged social class of the French nobility under the Ancien Régime, ranking below the clergy and above the commoners.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf nobility
social class
social estate
abolishedBy National Constituent Assembly
abolitionDate 1789
above Third Estate
appliesToPeriod Ancien Régime
surface form: Ancien Régime in France
associatedWith chivalric ideals
landed wealth
monarchy of France
seigneurial estates
below First Estate
composedOf French nobility
court nobility
nobles of the robe
nobles of the sword
provincial nobility
country Kingdom of France
declinePeriod French Revolution
differentiatedFrom First Estate
Third Estate
exemptFrom many direct taxes
taille
followedBy Third Estate
grantedRight collect feudal dues
exclusive access to high military offices
exclusive access to many court offices
hold seigneurial courts
hasCharacteristic fiscal privileges
hereditary status
legal privileges
political influence
privileged
social prestige
hasMember Ducal families of France
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé
surface form: Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé
historicalRole participant in Estates-General of 1789
pillar of the Ancien Régime
languageOfName French
legalBasis customary law
letters of nobility
royal edicts
lostPrivilegesDuring French Revolution
nativeLabel Deuxième État
partOf Ancien Régime
Ancien Régime
surface form: Three Estates of pre-revolutionary France
positionInHierarchy second
precededBy First Estate
subjectTo feudal obligations from peasants

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Ancien Régime hasEstate Second Estate
Scottish Estates hasPart Second Estate
Three Estates hasEstate Second Estate
Estates of Parliament hasEstate Second Estate
this entity surface form: Second Estate (nobility)
royal edict of Louis XVI affectedEstate Second Estate
subject surface form: Royal Edict of Louis XVI (1789)
Third Estate opposedTo Second Estate
First Estate contrastedWith Second Estate
Ancien Régime in Paris hasEstate Second Estate
Richelieu family memberOfEstate Second Estate
this entity surface form: Second Estate of the Ancien Régime
Bourbon France nobleEstate Second Estate