Qu est Ce Que Le Tiers Etat WHAT IS THE THIRD ESTATE Edited by Edme Champion With an Introduction by Peter Campbell and We print this the most famous pamphlet published during the French Revolution on the basis of the critical
WHAT IS THE THIRD ESTATE Edited by Edme Champion With an Introduction by Peter Campbell and We print this, the most famous pamphlet published during the French Revolution, on the basis of the critical edition by Edme Champion of 1888 Sieyes pamphlet appeared first in January 1789 Four editions were published in the same year and only the last one carried the name of WHAT IS THE THIRD ESTATE Edited by Edme Champion With an Introduction by Peter Campbell and We print this, the most famous pamphlet published during the French Revolution, on the basis of the critical edition by Edme Champion of 1888 Sieyes pamphlet appeared first in January 1789 Four editions were published in the same year and only the last one carried the name of the author Champion has preceded Le Tiers Etat by Sieyes Essai sur les Privileges, which is also included in this volume It was published anonymously in November 1788 during the second Assembly of the Notables which was consulted for the convocation of the Assembly of the Estates General The echo of the Tiers Etat was tremendous its publication certainly contributed greatly to the destruction of the French state based on estates and paved the way for a representative state structure, however long and painful it was to establish it All French historians of the Revolution have written on the Tiers Etat Mignet, Thiers, Louis Blanc, Sorel, Taine amongst German historians Sybel should be mentioned for his exemplary impartiality Champion s introduction, though suggestive, is superseded by Otto Brandt s pages on the Tiers Etat which introduce the German edition of Was ist der Dritte Stand , Berlin, 1924 The latter edition indicates also all the variants of Sieyes pamphlet We attach Sainte Beuve s essay from his Causeries du Lundi which is a masterpiece French Text Two Volumes in One
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Most commonly known as the Abb Siey s, was a French Roman Catholic abb , clergyman and political writer, Second Consul of France during Napoleonic era, one of the first members of what would become the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France.Abb Siey s was one of the chief political theorists of the French Revolution, and also played a prominent role in the French Consulate and First French Empire His 1789 pamphlet What is the Third Estate became the manifesto of the Revolution, helping to transform the Estates General into the National Assembly in June 1789 In 1799, he was the instigator of the coup d tat of 18 Brumaire 9 November , which brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power He also coined the term sociologie in an unpublished manuscript, and made significant theoretical contributions to the nascent social sciences.Despite Siey s embrace of Enlightenment thinking, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1773 In spite of this, he was not hired immediately He spent this time researching philosophy and developing music until about a year later in October 1774 when, as the result of demands by powerful friends, he was promised a canonry in Brittany Unfortunately for Siey s, this canonry went into effect only when the preceding holder died At the end of 1775, Siey s acquired his first real position as secretary to the bishop of Tr guier where he spent two years as deputy of the diocese It is here that he sat in the Estates of Brittany and became disgusted with the immense power the privileged classes held In 1780, the bishop of Tr guier was transferred to the bishopric of Chartres He became aware of how easy it was for nobles to advance in ecclesiastical offices compared to commoners Sieyes was an ambitious man therefore, he resented the privileges granted to the nobles within the Church system and thought the patronage system was a humiliation for commoners Siey s accompanied him there as his vicar general where he eventually became a canon of the cathedral and chancellor of the diocese of Chartres.While remaining in ecclesiastical offices, Siey s maintained a religious cynicism at odds with his position By the time he took his orders to enter priesthood, Siey s had freed himself from all superstitious sentiments and ideas Even when corresponding with his deeply religious father, Siey s showed a severe lack of piety for the man in charge of the diocese of Chartres 8 It is theorised that Sieyes accepted a religious career not because he had any sort of strong religious inclination, but because he considered it the only means to advance his career as a political writer.