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The Society of Thirty, founded and led by Adrien Duport, was composed of thirty French reformers, who during 11/1788 to 11/1789, played a pivotal role in beginning the French political Revolution.

Background The Society was composed of men shaped by various streams of thought and institutions springing from the Enlightenment.

The France before July 14,1789 is referred to as theancien régime. Ruled by the king and his court and was made up of three groups or classes called etats or estates. The first estate was the Catholic Church, second was the nobility, and the thirdwas all the people not in the first two estates.

The weight of the numerous taxes of the realm fell on the shoulders of the people of the third estate, the first two privileged estates being largely exempt of tax burdens.Several members of the Society

Shortly after mid eighteenth century, a group calling themselvesPhysiocrats developed a political economic system marking the beginning of capitalism. Four members of the Society of Thirty represented key physiocrat views: Dupont de Nemours, an active member of the priginal group;the Abbé Louis, who with Dupont was the brains behind Calonne's the physiocrat elements of Calonne's reform plan presented at the Assembly of Notables;the Abbé Morellet,a strong defendero physiocracy from its critics; Condorcet, a member ofTurgot's,physiocratically slanted administration;and Lafayet, who became a supporter while applyinying free trade principles to Franco-American trade deals.

The physiocrats' promoted free trade, Italic textlaisez fairereduction of regulations on commerce, and among many other reforms, simplification of many taxes to one, a tax on land. The greatest landlords were the nobilty and Church, which meant they would pay most of the tax, relieving people of the third estate.