A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbe Sieyes and What is the Third Estate? Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1994.A Rhetoric of the Bourgeois Revolution: the Abbe Sieyes and What is the Third Estate. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press....
(January 1789; “What Is the Third Estate?”), in which he identified the unprivilegedThird Estatewith the French nation and asserted that it alone had the right to draft a newconstitution. Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, undated engraving. The pamphlet won Sieyès immense popularity and ensured his ...