3.1- The Three Estates
Revolutions
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French Revolution - Guild System
- The French guild system in the 1700s was a source of frustration.
- Apprentices were like indentured servants, followed by journeymen who traveled and competed, before finally becoming masters.
- This restrictive system clashed with the rising popularity of free-trade economic theories.
- The urban workers, both skilled and unskilled, who were excluded from the guilds, later became key participants in the French Revolution, known as the sans-culottes.
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