It was one of the three states of the estates society typical of feudalism and the Old Regime. It was composed of the underprivileged population, totally opposed to the clergy and the nobility who enjoyed privileges such as not paying taxes and having many more rights. Besides being called the Third State you can be called flat state, town plan or town.
The sectors that made up the Third Estate were: the peasantry, which was mainly subjected to servitude or the lordship regime. The bourgeoisie, made up of the inhabitants of the cities of which they were part: artisans, organized in guilds or guilds. Merchants, who organized themselves into "guilds" or "Hansas" and met at fairs. The urban crowd or the poor people of the city.
There were great differences in wealth between the members of the Third Estate, both in the peasantry and in the bourgeoisie, divided into upper and lower bourgeoisie. The richest members of the Third Estate were more economically powerful than the lower nobility or lower clergy, but they had no equivalent political power or social prestige. According to Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, a French politician, ecclesiastical, essayist and academic of the second half of the eighteenth century, the bourgeoisie or third estate was the living body of the nation and the French Revolution was carried out by the bourgeoisie and its Bourgeois Revolution.
Sieyès proposed that the Estates General, in which the Third Estate, even if the majority did not win, be organized with: genuine representatives in the Estates General and one vote per person and not per State. This was achieved after the "revolution" of the Third Estate in 1789 when its members from France locked themselves in the Ball Game Hall and vowed not to dissolve until the country formulated a constitution, finally the monarch decided to sanction the situation and ordered a meeting in the National Constituent Assembly and wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Throughout this timein France several important events occurred that helped to win the privileges for the Third Estate, but the most prominent are: the storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789) and the Great Peur or Great Fear. Today, thanks to the Bill of Rights of 1789, much of the world respects these rights and there are not many state societies.
