Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, usually known as the Abbé Sieyès, was a French Catholic priest, abbé, and political writer who was a leading political theorist of the French Revolution. He also held offices i
Portrait by Jacques-Louis David, 1817
Sieyès around 1789
A bust of Sieyès by David d'Angers (1838)
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What Is the Third Estate?
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Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État? is an influential political pamphlet published in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French writer and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Jose
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
…Revolution (1789–1799). He also held offices in the governments of the French Consulate (1799–1804) and the First French Empire (1804–1815). His pamphlet What Is the Third Estate? (1789) became the political manifesto of the Revolution, which facilitated transforming the Estates-General into the National Assembly, in June 1789…
The first page of Qu'est-ce que le Tiers Etat?