23h 40min, jun 20, 1789 y - Tennis Court Oath
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Before the Revolution, French society aside from royalty was divided into three estates. The First Estate comprised the clergy the Second Estate was the nobility. The rest of France some 98% of the population was the Third Estate which ranged from very wealthy city merchants to impoverished rural farmers.
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