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The third estate comprised only poor people

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The above statement is false.
Only those who belonged to the third estate in eighteenth-century French society's three estates paid taxes. Most of the population, at 90%, was comprised of peasants. However, very few of them owned the land they farmed. Nobles, the Church, and other wealthier third-estate members held about 60% of the property. The clergy and nobility, who made up the first two estates, were born with some privileges. The exemption from paying state taxes was the most significant of these. The nobles also held feudal rights. They also demanded payments from the peasants, known as feudal dues. Hence the correct statement would be not only the third estate comprised only poor people.

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