Three Observations That Arthur Young Made About The Life In France Between 1787 And 1789

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1. Three observations that Arthur Young made about the life in France between the years 1787 and 1789 were that the poor people seem very poor as even the children are terribly ragged, the lack of bread is terrible as the price of it is above the peasant’s ability to pay, and that a woman joined him and complained about the hard times as the high taxes are crushing the peasants.

2. a. The conclusion that I can draw about the relationship between the percentage of the population in each estate and the percentage of land owned by each estate is that the larger the percentage of the population in each estate, the larger the percentage of land owned by that estate.

b. The unfair conditions that existed in pre-revolutionary France were that the

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