What Were The Three Estates Into Which The French Society Was Divided?
What Were The Three Estates Into Which The French Society Was Divided? Estates-General, also called States General, French États-Généraux, in France of the pre-Revolution monarchy, the representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy (First Estate) and nobility (Second Estate)—which were privileged minorities—and the Third Estate, which represented the …