![]() ![]() The Catholic Church was the largest landowner in the country whose properties provided massive revenues from its tenants plus enormous income from the collection of tithes. (A small population of Jews, amounting to around 40,000, also existed, and very small numbers of Muslims may also have lived in the kingdom in a country whose total population was at least 27 million, however, these groups were numerically negligible.) Under the Ancien Regime, the authority of the clergy was institutionalized in its status as the First Estate of the realm. In 18th-century France, ninety-five percent of the population were adherents of the Catholic Church most of the rest were Protestant Huguenots, who, although greatly outnumbered by the Catholics, nonetheless retained powerful positions in French local governments. Dechristianization of France During the French Revolution ![]()
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