The Declaration of the Rights of Man made all French citizens equal before the law. How did this equality contrast with the ways of the Old Regime?

Under the Old Regime, French society was divided into three estates, and people had different rights and privileges depending on their estate. The Declaration’s principle of equality before the law challenged those legal distinctions. So the contrast is with the system of the three estates, not the king’s removal or the loss of aristocratic land.

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