If a student says all members of the Third Estate were equally poor what is the correct correction?

The Third Estate had both prosperous bourgeoisie and poor workers

The Third Estate was not a single, economically uniform group. It included everyone who was neither a member of the clergy nor a noble. Some members were prosperous merchants, lawyers, manufacturers, and other educated bourgeois people, while many others were peasants, artisans, and urban workers with very low incomes. Therefore, saying that all members were equally poor ignores important differences within this estate.

Option A is correct because it recognises both wealthy or comfortable bourgeois members and poor workers. The other choices are incorrect: nobles belonged to the Second Estate, clergy belonged to the First Estate, and the Third Estate generally carried much of the tax burden. The key idea is that a social order can contain groups with very different economic positions.

This is a Class 9 History question. Chapter: The French Revolution. Topic: French Society During the Late Eighteenth Century.