Description: THIS ITEM IS THE HARDBACK BOOK WHAT IS THE THIRD ESTATE? TRANSLATED BY M. BLONDEL AND EDITED, WITHHISTORICAL NOTES BY S.E. FINER PUBLISHED BYPALL MALL PRESS1963 Emmanuel–Joseph Sieyès was born at Fréjus, 3 May 1748. He was educated at a Jesuit school, became a licentiate of the canon law, and was appointed vicar–general by the bishop of Chartres. He first came into prominence with the publication of his pamphlet, "Qu’est ce que le tiers état?" In 1789, he was elected delegate to the Estates–General from Paris, and in the preliminary struggle for organization was made spokesman of the Third Estate. The policy indicated in his pamphlet was one actually carried out in the conservative period of the Revolution. As the Revolution progressed, Sieyès dropped out of sight and had the good fortune to escape death. When asked, at a later period, what he had done during the Terror, he summed up his whole experience in the words: "I existed." In 1795, he again came forward and was appointed member of a commission to draft a new constitution. His views did not obtain prominence in the constitution of 1795, and he refused to accept a position in the directory of the new government. Sieyès took part with Napoleon in the coup d’état of 18 Brumaire and was made one of the provisional consuls with Napoleon and Ducos. Later on he was made a count of the empire and given extensive estates as a reward for his services to France. This marks Sieyès’s final retirement from public life. He fled to Brussels on the second return of the Bourbons, returned after the revolution of 1830, and died in Paris on 20 June 1836. THE BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION - SMALL CREASE TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE - BUMP TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER OF COVER WHICH HAS ALSO CREASED THE FIRST COUPLE OF PAGES IN THE SAME POSITION
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