Find the incorrect statement about French society during the late eighteenth century.

Find the incorrect statement about French society during the late eighteenth century. Correct Answer The big businessmen were not required to pay taxes to the state

Option 3 is NOT correct.

• The members of the first two estates, that is, the clergy and the nobility, who belonged to the first and second estate were not required to pay any taxes.
• Big business came under the third estate and they had to pay taxes. Hence Option 3 is NOT Correct.
• The members of the first two estates, that is, the clergy and the nobility, enjoyed certain privileges by birth.
• The most important of these was an exemption from paying taxes to the state.
• The nobles further enjoyed feudal privileges.
• These included feudal dues, which they extracted from the peasants .
• The Church too extracted its share of taxes called tithes from the peasants, and finally, all members of the third estate had to pay taxes to the state.
• These included a direct tax, called taille, and several indirect taxes which were levied on articles of everyday consumption like salt or tobacco.
• The burden of financing activities of the state through taxes was borne by the third estate alone.