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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès 1748-1836
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Emmanuel-Joseph
Sieyès
Detail from the
portrait by Jacques-Louis David, 1817.
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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès was born in beautiful Fréjus, France.
After having published two
political pamphlets before 1789, he then wrote the one that
put all others on the bottom shelves:
What Is the Third Estate?
And here it is in French:
Qu'est-ce que le tiers état?
Check this event in the
Timeline of the French Revolution
Hence, Sieyes played a major role in the
French Revolution.
Sieyes became one of the consuls in
Napoleon's
Consulate which
terminated the
Directory
and became the government of France from 1799 to 1804.
Here is more on
Napoleon I Bonaparte.
See also
Governments of France.
And maybe
Timeline of the French Revolutionary
Wars.
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