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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès: The Third Estate

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Sruly Brach
Mr Semach P. 4
10/22/14
What is the third Estate? The Third Estate by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès is a pamphlet written pre-French Revolutionary war about the importance, yet no appreciation of the Third Estate. In the first section of his essay I will discuss the three causes of the French Revolution: The financial crisis, the lack of nationalism, and the misrepresentation. In the second section of this essay I will discuss three topics about Sieyès: his background, his relationship to the third estate and his role in the mid and post revolution government. In the final section of this essay I will discuss the development of the French Revolution. These three sections will provide information to better understand the pamphlet written by Sieyès and the revolution in general. …show more content…

France has just gotten out of both the 7 Year War and The American Revolution. On top of that no one was stopping the kings and the nobility to spend any amount of France’s resources for things that were not necessities, for example the palace Versailles was estimated to cost 10% of the national wealth. This led to a slowdown in population growth and less goods being imported to France. Furthermore there was little to no tax payed by most of the 1st and 2nd class because of privileges, so the main taxpayers where the poor and how much can the poor be taxed? With the cost of two wars, a corrupt government and a depletion of funds, it was obvious France was in a moajr Financial crisis and its also obviosus that that is one of the things that has led to the French

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