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Of course they didn't, unless you are using some extremely narrow and historical definition of "class". France still have significant wealth inequality and rent-seeking, so by most modern definitions of "class" they certainly have a class system.



The UK has a formal class system that's actually encoded in law (peerages, knights, royal family, etc.) France got rid of all that.




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