Before the France Revolution France was an absolute monarchy. The concentration of wealth and power in France were distributed between social classes. In this system the people of France belonged to one of three main social classes that were each called estates. The First Estate was made up of clergy of the Roman Catholic Church and it made up about 1 percent of the population and paid about 2 percent of its income to the government as taxes. The Second Estate was made up of rich noble people and was about 2 percent of the population and this Estate did not have to pay any taxes. It was their privilege since they fought for the king in times of war and they supposedly paid their tax in blood but this was not the case by the 1780’s. Now the
