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The second class included the noble people of France. They had large estates and the riches of them also had houses in Versailles.
But it was very expensive to be noble. They had to have hundreds of servants and they need to have all the newest dresses. The noble
woman had nearly 60 different dresses. And they needed to have a place in their houses for all the other noble people, if they had invited
them. They did not pay taxes as third class did. They got taxes from the small farms, that lay near the estate. They got the rights to hunt
everywhere on their land, but they risked being decapitated (that was a right the noble people had. Poor people went hanged) if they
worked self. Most of them were very poor, so poor, that they sold their land, and all they owed, so they could continue
their great lives near the king and the other noble persons.
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