How many estates were there in France before the ancien regime?

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How many estates were there in France before the ancien regime?

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Ancien Regime (Old Regime) was an ancient and rigid socio-political structure of France labelled so only after the French Revolution when hindsight illuminated the great rupture from the past and thus, named it so. Because the Ancien Regime has no recorded history of when it began (but it was most certainly medieval France), it is difficult to pinpoint when it could've started or what was France like before it (it was a settled territory of the Gauls and the Franks).

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