Other Stuff (society/taxes):

Question 1

provinces

Answer 1

• 39

Question 2

généralités

Answer 2

• 36

Question 3

first estate

Answer 3

• clergy
• 0.6% of population
• church owned approx. 10% of land

Question 4

second estate

Answer 4

• nobility
• 0.4% of the population
• owned approx. 33% of land
• privileges include: carrying a sword, not paying corvée and taille
• noblesse de robe (bought their nobility)
• noblesse d’epée (born noble)

Question 5

third estate

Answer 5

• bourgeoisie (wealthy and educated)
• urban workers
• peasants
• 99% of population
• owned least amount of land

Question 6

corvee

Answer 6

• Peasants obligation to do unpaid service
• 14 days of unpaid service
• Nobility, the clergy and those in pay d’etat were exempt

Question 7

gabele

Answer 7

• a tax on salt

- salt needed to preserve food

Question 8

taille

Answer 8

• Main direct tax
• Persons in central provinces
• Land in peripheral provinces
• Church, nobility and pay d’etat are exempt

Question 9

Don Gratuit

Answer 9

• Voluntary gift to the King
• Every 5 years
• They can choose how much they pay