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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.
The widespread three estates order was particularly characteristic of France: 1  First estate included the group of all clergy, that is, members of the higher clergy and the lower clergy. 2  Second estate has been encapsulated by the nobility. 3  Third estate included all nominally free citizens; in some places, free peasants.