The Unexpected Backlashes of the Revolutionaries

The first estate delegates were dominated by parish priests, as opposed to the high ranking ecclesiastics. The second estate was dominated by the old nobility; if your nobility stretched back no further than the seventeenth century, you were all but cut out. Half of the noble delegates lived in paris full time and only about a quarter were true provincials,. So again, were talking well off in urban rather than poor and rural. And though these guys are often portrayed as political neophytes, most famously by detokeville, they weren't completely wide eyed. But it's true that a lot of them were the legates began to trickle in at the end of april 17 89