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Rev statistics
Statistics of revs
Question | Answer |
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What was the French Population in 1789? | 28 million people |
Percentage of third estate in France | 99% |
Percentage of second estate in France | 0.4% |
Percentage of first estate in France | 0.6% |
population of third estate in France | 27.7 million people |
population of second estate in France | 125,000 people |
population of first estate in France | 165,000 people |
How many people were so poor they were reduced to begging | 3-5 million people |
How many people in France were peasants who drew a living from subsistence farming | 80% |
Town-Dwellers made up how much of the French population | 5-8% |
Over the century how much faster had prices raised than wages? | 3x |
Church owned how much property in town's | 75% |
How much land did the clergy own in all of France | 10% |
How much money did Clergy gain from the tithe and others | 10% |
How much land did the nobles own in France | 33% |
How much of the population did the bourgeoise make up | 8% |
How much land did the Bourgeoise own in all of France | 33% |
How much of population did urban workers make up | 6% |
A four-pound loaf of bread was raised from what to what | 9 sous to 14 sous |
how much of the population did peasants make up | 85% |
How much land did the peasants own all of France | 32% |
how much of their harvest did peasants pay with | 10% |
How much of their income did the Church give to the monarchy | 5% |
How much of their produce did peasant have to pay if feudal dues | 3-5% |
How many pamphlets were publish for the E.G. | 4000 pamphlets |
How many nobles wrote they were willing to give up financial privileges in the cahiers | 80% |
How many nobles wrote they were willing to vote by head in the cahiers | 39% |
How many of the provincial nobles (for them seigneurial rights and taxation exemptions were too important) went to the E.G. | 270 deputies |
How many peasants wanted reform or abolition of various taxes | over 42% |
how much did wage-earners earn in a day (important as bread cost 14 sous) | 15 sous |
Around how many people died in the Reveillon riots | 25 people |