The Third Estate in pre-revolutionary France comprised a vast majority of the population, including peasants, artisans and the middle class, and was primarily burdened with:
A.
The overwhelming burden of taxation, while the clergy and nobility enjoyed exemptions
The compulsory tax that peasants were required to pay to the Church in pre-revolutionary France, generally amounting to one-tenth of agricultural produce, was called the:
One of the immediate financial causes of the French Revolution was the severe fiscal crisis faced by the French state, aggravated significantly by expenditure on:
A.
Industrial modernisation
B.
Public healthcare programmes
C.
Agricultural reforms
D.
Wars, including French support for the American War of Independence, and lavish expenses of the royal court at Versailles
