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Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État? (transl. What Is the Third Estate?) 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 Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836). [1]
Third Estate, in French history, with the nobility and the clergy, one of the three orders into which members were divided in the pre-Revolutionary Estates-General. It represented the great majority of the people, and its deputies’ transformation of themselves into a National Assembly in June 1789.
The Third Estate was by far the largest of the three, taking in everyone from the poorest itinerant peasants to the wealthiest businessmen. The frustrations and grievances of the Third Estate would give rise to the French Revolution; its diversity and differences would produce many of its failures. Contents hide. 1.
What is the Third Estate? is a political essay published in the first weeks of 1789, following the convocation of the Estates General. It was penned by Emmanuel Sieyès, a mid-ranking churchman of liberal political views.
The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe. Different systems for dividing society members into estates developed and evolved over time. [1][2]
In early modern Europe, the 'Estates' were a theoretical division of a country's population, and the 'Third Estate' referred to the mass of normal, everyday people. They played a vital role in the early days of the French Revolution, which also ended the common use of the division.
What is the Third Estate? was a pamphlet published by Abbè Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès (1748-1836) in January 1789, months before the start of the French Revolution (1789-1799). The pamphlet concerns the place of the Third Estate (commoners) within the French nation, as well as what it should hope to gain from the Estates-General of 1789 .