The Second Estate is the nobility.

So you start having nobility starting to leave France.

But you saw the nobility really, really, living it up.

There's a nobility of real, hands on, dirt under your fingernails work.

And then you have some nobility, that says, gee, you know what?

And they had sympathy from some elements of the clergy and the nobility.

The connotation of nobility and authority has persisted around words of French origin.

Oh, just look at his face! He had a sense of nobility flowing out of him!

But even worse than the royals, who you don't see every day, you saw your nobility.

And the nobility, or the King, or the clergy, that they wouldn't have to make sacrifices.

But obviously these other Estates, the clergy and the nobility, said no, let's each vote as Estates.

It's not because you have a title, that you're a noble. There are people who have a natural nobility and are fine nobles. People like us who only have nobility titles are not nobles, we're more like peasants.

And they actually got some sympathy from some elements of the clergy and some elements of the nobility.

He sees the nobility of the peasants dimly lit meal.... ... and the bright city's dehumanising effect on its denizens.

He sees the nobility of the peasants dimly lit meal.... ... and the bright city's dehumanising effect on its denizens.

But there is a kind of nobility that is very much emblematic of this high classical moment in Ancient Greece.

Nobles do not exist merely because there is a peerage system. Even if there were no peerage system, there will be people who are naturally dominant and who will quickly rise to nobility. So much for our nobility then. Why, we are mere peasants.

By the 19th century, it had become a kind of gentleman's club populated mainly by antiquarians, literary men and the nobility.

I mean here is the god of wine, right? who completely relaxed and yet there is still this kind of nobility.

And the nobility, just so you know, these are people with fancy titles who inherit land and wealth from generation to generation.

His obligations as trustee of the family's Ryazan estate compelled Prince Andrei to call upon the local Marshal of Nobility, Count Rostov.

She said Surely when kings enter a city they destroy it and despoil the honour of its nobility. So will they do (to us).

And they actually made their servants dress as nobility to make them the targets in case they were ambushed anyway on their way trying to escape from Paris.

And they're just trying and killing people that just seem to be suspicious, seem to be allied in some way with the nobility or with the King, or in someway a royalist.