Classes

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.

1. Royalty — Roi, Reine, Prince, Princesse
2. Noble - Chalices (Hearts)
   1. 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
      • Gentleman and Lady of the Court of Louis XIV
   2. 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
      • French Gentleman and Lady
   3. The Royal Household — Office holders and servants of the King.
      • The Royal Household
3. Clergy - Coins (Diamonds)
   1. Archbishop
   2. Bishop
   3. Cardinal
   4. Vicar
   5. Curate
4. Military - Staves (Clubs)
   1. Guard Cavalry — Life Guards, Gendarmes, Lighthorse of the Guard, Horse Grenadiers, Musketeers, Life Guards of the King of Poland
   2. Guard Infantry — French Guards, Swiss Guards
      • French Marshal and Subaltern Officer (1704-1730)
   3. Cavalry — Gendarmes of France, heavy cavalry, carabiniers, dragoons
   4. Line Infantry
   5. Militia — Provincial Militia, Coast Guard Militia, Bourgeois Militia
5. Merchant - Swords (Spades)
   1. First class — printer, book dealers, surgeons, apothecaries, haberdashers, clothiers, goldsmiths, hardware dealers, card makers, button makers.
   2. Second class — food suppliers (bakers, butchers, pastry cooks, pork butchers, cooks, wine merchants), saddlery & hides, shoemakers, upholsterers.
   3. Third class — metals & furniture
   4. Fourth class — building trades, cobblers
6. Servant
   • Abbe - French Secular Clerk, Servant Girl in a Contouche
7. Peasant
   1. Landowners
   2. Rich tenant-farmer
   3. Tenant-farmer
   4. Villager
   5. M+¬tayer
   6. Landless agricultural labourer