Cahiers of the Second Estate

Question 1

% of nobles willing to give up their financial privileges

Answer 1

89%

Question 2

% of nobles who supported voting by head

Answer 2

39%

Question 3

What were the liberal nobles prepared to admit?

Answer 3

Merit rather than hereditary status should be the key to high office

Question 4

What did the nobles attack the government for?

Answer 4

Its despotism, inefficiency, injustice and how it was outdated

Question 5

Proportion of the nobles who were more liberal in their opinions

Answer 5

1/3

Question 6

What had shown that the nobles opposed the idea of commoners entering their ranks?

Answer 6

Ségur Ordinance of 1781

Question 7

What was the Ségur Ordinance of 1781?

Answer 7

A French law that required French officer candidates to produce proof of having at least 4 generations of nobility

Question 8

What were the nobles divided over?

Answer 8

Third Estate demands for tax reforms and a modern constitution