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After assessing the situation, Necker insisted that Louis XVI call together the Estates-General, a French congress that originated in the medieval period and consisted of three estates. The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate the nobility, and the Third Estate effectively the rest of French society.
Moreover, the higher clergy consisted of nobility and as such, was enemy of the revolution by default. 2. The Second Estate was the Royalty (apart from the Monarch who was not part of any of the estates) and Nobility. - Before the revolution, the Second Estate basically lived off the Third one.