They identified with the third estate in France, and they called for interest rates to be lowered so they could more easily pay their debts.
他们认同法国的第三等级,他们呼吁降低利率, 这样他们就可以更容易地偿还债务。
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Estates of the realm
The estates of the realm were the broad social orders of the hierarchically conceived society recognised in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period in Christian Europe. There was no single system of dividing society into estates, and systems developed over time.