What was the role of the nobility in pre-revolutionary France?

In the political system of pre-Revolutionary France, the nobility made up the Second Estate of the Estates General (with the Catholic clergy comprising the First Estate and the bourgeoisie and peasants in the Third Estate). Although membership in the noble class was mainly inherited, it was not a fully closed order.

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might be agreeing to participate ethically with other european nations in the slave trade

or notifying other european nations when taking possession   of african territories

whose power in the senate is equal to the power of the speaker of the house?