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SIEYES (Abbé Emmanuel). What is the Third Estate? S.l.n.n., - Lot 236

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SIEYES (Abbé Emmanuel). What is the Third Estate? S.l.n.n., - Lot 236
SIEYES (Abbé Emmanuel). What is the Third Estate? S.l.n.n., 1789. In-8, rebacked, antique cover, half-black morocco folder and slipcase (Devauchelle A.). Extremely rare first edition of this major political text in the history of modern France. (Jacques Quentin in En français dans le texte, n°186.) A veritable battle cry (Tocqueville), its influence was immense. Under its scathing title (said to be the work of Chamfort), Sieyes sums up France's political problem on the eve of the convening of the Estates-General: Qu'est-ce que le Tiers État? Everything. What has it been up to now in the political order? Nothing. What is it asking for? To become something. An advocate of proportionality in a "General Assembly", Sieyes is, among other things, the inventor of modern representation.
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