1. Jean Jacques Rousseau – a French Swiss philosopher. His main idea was – man is naturally good and that society of civilisation makes man anxious and unhappy.
2. Mirabeau – he brought about a journal and delivered powerful speeches to the crowds at Versailles.
3. Voltaire – A famous French writer. He exposed the evils prevailing in the Church and administration. The numbers of the first two estates were the
(i) Clergy and
(ii) Nobility respectively.