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The Third Estate included approximately ninety-eight percent of the French population under the Old Regime. Which group was exclusively part of this estate?

parish priests of common descent
peasants
landowners
impoverished nobility

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Peasants.

They were commoners and thus part of the Third Estate. (Parish priests, even if of common birth, belonged to the First Estate; landowners could be nobles; impoverished nobility were still Second Estate.)