Question

Church collected taxes known as thites only from peasants or full third estate ?

Answer 1

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a. There was a grave socio economic inequalities in the French society.

b. The clergy who constituted the first estate were exempted from paying taxes to the state.

c. The clergy further extracted taxes, called tithes from the peasantry.

d,The church established its dominance over the french society by controlling the army and the administrative affairs.

e. Thus, the Church/clergy collected taxes that is Tithes only from the peasantry.

f. Taille, another type of tax was paid by the members of third estate to the state in the eighteenth century in the French society.Taille was a direct tax on the income and property of unprivileged classes. This tax was collected by the nobility.

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