Cahiers of the Third Estate Flashcards
What professions did the Third Estate deputies mainly hold?
Lawyers, landowners and office holders
Why is it probable that cahiers from poorer villages were constrained?
Many of the cahiers of the Third Estate were composed using models sent from Paris
What did the cahiers mainy speak out against?
The financial privileges held by the other two Estates eg the Church’s exemption from the tithe and taille
The unfair voting system which allowed the clergy and nobles to combine their votes on any issue that suited them
What major issue separated the Third Estate from the other two orders?
Voting by head
What did the Third Estate have which meant that they would win a vote by head?
Double representation to include the mass of the people (600, rather than 300, members)
What was to cause conflict when the Estates-General met?
The method of voting
