Traders and lawyers were considered part of which social group?

The middle class

The governing concept is the composition and political role of the French middle class. Traders and lawyers were generally educated, economically active members of the Third Estate. Along with merchants, manufacturers, officials and professionals, they formed an important section of the middle class. Their wealth and education gave them confidence, but the old order still denied them the birth-based privileges enjoyed by the clergy and nobility. They were therefore receptive to Enlightenment ideas about liberty, equality, natural rights and representative government. Option A is correct. High clergy belonged to the First Estate, while the royal family and feudal nobles belonged to privileged hereditary groups. Those alternatives do not describe traders and lawyers as a social category.

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