Multiple choice

Which was the tax paying estate in the French society?

  1. 1st estate

  2. 2nd estate

  3. 3rd estate

  4. none of these

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C Correct answer
Explanation

The Third Estate (commoners - peasants, workers, bourgeoisie) paid almost all taxes in pre-revolutionary France. The First Estate (clergy) and Second Estate (nobility) were largely exempt from taxation, creating severe inequality.