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+======Classes======
+| Go Back to ^ [[roleplaying:rulesversailles]] ^
+Possibly the most important statistic for any character in the game.  Your class determines your quality of life and your fate.
+There are two kinds of class distinctions - major and minor.  There are seven major classes (Peasant, Servant, Merchant, Military etc) - but within each of these classes are a number of minor classes.  Whenever the rules call on you to check for a difference in classes, you subtract the lower major class from the larger major class **unless** you both belong to the same class - in which case you subtract the lower minor class from the larger minor class.
+   - Royalty --- Roi, Reine, Prince, Princesse
+   - Noble - ''**Chalices (Hearts)**''
+    - Upper (older) Nobility --- A peer (holder of the title, or a noble (member of the family of the peer)
+      * Grand Duc,Grande Duchesse, Duc,Duchesse, Marquis, Marquise, Comte, Comtesse, Vicomte, Vicomtesse, Baron, Baronne, Baronnet, Chevalier
+      * [[http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/images/PLATE70BX.JPG|Gentleman and Lady of the Court of Louis XIV]]
+    - Lower (newer) Nobility  --- A peer (holder of the title, or a noble (member of the family of the peer)
+      * Grand Duc,Grande Duchesse, Duc,Duchesse, Marquis, Marquise, Comte, Comtesse, Vicomte, Vicomtesse, Baron, Baronne, Baronnet, Chevalier
+      * [[http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/images/PLATE70DX.JPG|French Gentleman and Lady]]
+    - The Royal Household --- Office holders and servants of the King.
+      * [[VersaillesHousehold|The Royal Household]]
+   - Clergy - ''**Coins (Diamonds)**''
+    - Archbishop
+    - Bishop
+    - Cardinal
+    - Vicar
+    - Curate
+   - Military - **Staves (Clubs)**
+    - Guard Cavalry --- Life Guards, Gendarmes, Lighthorse of the Guard, Horse Grenadiers, Musketeers, Life Guards of the King of Poland
+    - Guard Infantry --- French Guards, Swiss Guards
+      * [[http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/images/PLATE68AX.JPG|French Marshal and Subaltern Officer (1704-1730)]]
+    - Cavalry --- Gendarmes of France, heavy cavalry, carabiniers, dragoons
+    - Line Infantry
+    - Militia --- Provincial Militia, Coast Guard Militia, Bourgeois Militia
+   - Merchant - **Swords (Spades)**
+    -  First class --- printer, book dealers, surgeons, apothecaries, haberdashers, clothiers, goldsmiths, hardware dealers, card makers, button makers.
+    -  Second class --- food suppliers (bakers, butchers, pastry cooks, pork butchers, cooks, wine merchants), saddlery & hides, shoemakers, upholsterers.
+    -  Third class --- metals & furniture
+    -  Fourth class --- building trades, cobblers
+   - Servant
+      * [[http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/images/PLATE73CX.JP|Abbe - French Secular Clerk, Servant Girl in a Contouche]]
+   - Peasant
+    - Landowners
+    - Rich tenant-farmer
+    - Tenant-farmer
+    - Villager
+    - M+¬tayer
+    - Landless agricultural labourer