HIS244H1 Lecture : lecture
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1st estate is the clergy exempt from taxes. 2nd estate is nobility there is a breakdown between the older/younger nobility there too are exempt from taxes. So the people with the most $ and land paid no taxes. 3rd estate they payed the most taxes had the fewest land=everyone else. Losing $ because of all the taxes thye have to pay to the kind, church and nobles. He had once mistress who was good at running the court affairs. He was not a very able administrator and he had problems with $ France did have the most $ producing colony saint domingue(haiti) The propsal that cologne brought forth was the land tax. Nobles are very upset with the crown due to the financial crisis. They thought that it was marry antonette/her husband that caused the financial crisis. Cologne who was the finance minister started printing out his ideas and passing them around.
