This form of government was based on a system of estates. These estates were based on peoples’ status of clergy, noble, or commons. In this system, land distribution was very unequal. The king had twenty percent of the land, the Clergy owned ten percent, the nobles owned thirty percent, and the commons, who made up over ninety-eight percent of the French population at the time, only owned forty percent. The Ancien Régime was not reified until after it had already been destroyed. This is because people noticed how drastically different the government was after the revolution. Although the government during the Restoration was quite different from the Ancien Régime, most of the Ancien Régime was still present. A new system had just been created under it. As time went by, the Ancien Régime, like many other government structures, met its end. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen has actually been referred to as the “death certificate of the Ancien
This form of government was based on a system of estates. These estates were based on peoples’ status of clergy, noble, or commons. In this system, land distribution was very unequal. The king had twenty percent of the land, the Clergy owned ten percent, the nobles owned thirty percent, and the commons, who made up over ninety-eight percent of the French population at the time, only owned forty percent. The Ancien Régime was not reified until after it had already been destroyed. This is because people noticed how drastically different the government was after the revolution. Although the government during the Restoration was quite different from the Ancien Régime, most of the Ancien Régime was still present. A new system had just been created under it. As time went by, the Ancien Régime, like many other government structures, met its end. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen has actually been referred to as the “death certificate of the Ancien