What was the estimated population of France at the beginning of the Revolution?

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Around how many clergy were in the First Estate?

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How many bishops were in the First Estate?

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How many monks were in the First Estate?

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How many nuns were in the First Estate?

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How many lower clergy were in the First Estate?

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The First Estate formed less than (a)   % of the population

How much of the land did the First Estate own?

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How big was the voluntary annual grant of the church to the state in the Ancien Régime?

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What percentage of total church income was the voluntary annual grant the church made to the state under the Ancien Régime?

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Roughly how many people were in the Second Estate?

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Less than what percentage of the French Population was made up of the Second Estate?

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Together, the Second Estate owned between _ and _ of all the land in France

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The Noblesse de Court numbered around how many?

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In 1789, how many offices of the Noblesse de Robe were there?

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Around how many people were in the Third Estate?

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What percentage of the Third Estate were Bourgeoisie?

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How much of private French wealth did the bourgeoisie own?

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How much of French land did the bourgeoisie own?

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Over what percentage of the population of France was made up of the peasantry?

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Around how many vagrants were there in France pre-revolution?

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How many serfs were there in the East? (Mainly in Franche Comté)

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(a)   of peasants were sharecroppers

What fraction of peasants were landless labourers?

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In Paris in 1776, how many workers belonged to guilds?

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In Paris in 1776, what fraction of the male population belonged to guilds?

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Prices had risen by (a)   % between 1726 and 1789

Wages had risen by (a)   % between 1726 and 1789

In 1700, how many newspapers were there in France?

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In 1785, over how many newspapers were there in France?

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Adult literacy rate in France in 1789

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Between 1770 and 1789, how many good harvests had there been?

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By 1789, what fraction of French farmland was divided into tiny landholdings?

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What percentage of the pre-revolution population of France was made up of peasants?

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What percentage of the harvest was taxed in the Corvée champort?

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How much was paid in rent in 1705?

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How much was paid in rent in 1790?

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In Languedoc, nobles paid what percentage of their annual revenue in tax?

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How much did the Church voluntarily pay to the government per year?

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What percentage of their total income did the Church voluntarily pay to the government per year?

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How many offices in the royal bureaucracy were sold as venality?

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How many livres per year did selling venalities bring in?

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How many livres/annum did curés live on?

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How many livres/annum did high clergy live on?

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In 1789, how many bishops were there?

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In 1789, how many of the 135 bishops were not from noble birth?

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In 1789, what fraction of bishops came from only 13 families?

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Paris grew by (a)   in the 18th century

Lyons and Marseilles grew by (a)   in the 18th century

Bordeaux and Nantes grew by (a)   in the 18th century

In the 1780s, life expectancy in France was how many years?

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What fraction of a French peasant's diet was made up of bread?

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Between 1773 and 1779, over how many joined Masonic Lodges?

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When was the Enlightenment first recognised as a distinct movement?

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How many contributers were there to the Encyclopaedia?

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There were over how many subscriptions to the Encyclopaedia in each of Bordeaux, Paris, Lyons, Marseille, Nîmes, and Toulouse?

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The French had been hostile towards Britain and Austria since the (a)   th centuary

How much did the War of Austrian Succession cost France?

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How much did the Seven-Years War cost France?

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How much did the American War of Independance cost France?

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What percentage of French Debt in 1789 was from wars?

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How many French troops returned from America with revolutionary ideas and the example of howan existing political authority could be overthrown?

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Percentage of French Government income from indirect taxes in 1780

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Percentage of French Government income from direct taxes in 1780

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French Government total income in 1780

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Percentage of French Government expenditure on debts in 1780

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Percentage of French Government expenditure on war department in 1780

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Percentage of French Government expenditure on fiscal administration in 1780

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Percentage of French Government expenditure on civil administration in 1780

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French Government expenditure in 1780

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How many people did the government employ to stop cross-border salt smuggling?

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How many posts was the Receivers-General made up of?

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Over how many ceremonial offices in the king's kitchen did Necker abolish?

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How many men were in the Assembly of Notables?

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How many Princes of the Blood were there?

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What percentage of an average labourer's daily wage was being spent on bread by 1789?

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How many were elected to the First Estate?

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How many were elected to the Second Estate?

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How many of those elected to the First Estate were bishops rather than Parish Priests?

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How many of those elected to the Second Estate were liberal nobles, in favour of cautious reform? (as opposed to the more conservative nobles who wanted no reform)

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What percentage of the Third Estate Deputies were venal office holders?

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What percentage of the Third Estate Deputies were lawyers?

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What percentage of the Third Estate Deputies were from trade and industry?

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How many members of the Third Estate were elected?

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What fraction of the members of the Third Estate in the Estates-General had some legal qualification?

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What percentage of the population were unrepresented in the Estates-General?

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What percentage of the Second Estate deputies were willing to give up their financial privaledges?

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What percentage of the Second Estate deputies supported voting by head?

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The nobility voted by ___ to __ to meet as a separate order

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The clergy voted by ___ to ___ to meet as a separate order

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How many deputies in the Estates General were from the Third Estate?

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How many priests first joined the third estate?

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How many deputies of the Third Estate voted to call themselves the National Assembly? (Thereby claiming to represent the French Nation)

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How many deputies of the Third Estate voted to not call themselves the National Assembly? (Thereby claiming to represent the French Nation)

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How many clergy voted to join the Third Estate?

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How many clergy voted to not join the Third Estate?

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How many voted against the Tennis Court Oath?

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By late June, how many troops were stationed around Paris?

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In August 1788, how many sous was the price of a 1.8 kg loaf of bread?

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In March 1789, how many sous was the price of a 1.8 kg loaf of bread?

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How many casualties were there due to troop intervention in the Day of the Tiles?

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By 11th July, how many troops did Louis have located in the Paris-Versailles area?

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How many stormed a prison on the left bank on 30th June 1789?

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How many muskets were there in Les Invalides?

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How many cannon were there in Les Invalides?

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How many were killed at the Bastille when Launay ordered his men to open fire on the crowd?

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How many royal guard were lynched along with Launay at the Bastille?

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How many Parisians were involved in the storming of the Bastille?

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How many émigrés fled abroad in the two months following the storming of the Bastille?

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In the Dauphiné généralité, how many chateaux were burned in the Great Fear?

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In the Dauphiné généralité, how many chateaux were pilliaged in the Great Fear?

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In the Dauphiné généralité, how many chateaux had their archives destroyed in the Great Fear?

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How many articles were in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?

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What was the estimated value of the nationalised Church Land?

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How many rebels had arrived at Versailles by the evening of 5th October?

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Louis and the royal family were taken back to Paris by how many people in the October Days?

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