The Third state of the realm, during the Ancient Regime and the feudal system, was one of the three social classes in which society was divided: clergy (1st state), nobels (2nd state) and peasants and burgeosie (3rd state). There is almost no social mobility between them, and the three are ruled by a monarch with absolut powers. The power of the King was believed to be granted directly by God.
Peasants worked for feudal lords in rural areas, while bourgeois were mainly artisans who worked in the cities, and most have made money and had become traders or entrepeneurs there. The French Revolution was triggered due to the desires of this bourgeois, as representatives of the Thirds State, who wanted to get rid of the feudal structures that situated their social class always subject to the desires of the 1st and 2nd state and of course, of the King. Instead, they defended that the power of a nation arises from its citizens, who should grant it to representatives or rulers through sufragge, in opposition to absolute kings and the clergy and nobels as their servants. They also claimed for their personal freedoms and rights, such as, the private property.
