third estate

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And now the fencing has come to the Supreme Court, to the third estate.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2022

The term had a special resonance with his Francophone audience because it recalled the third estate, “tiers-état,” of the French Revolution.

From Time • Aug. 26, 2015

Hence, to Saint Simon the antagonism between the third estate and the privileged classes took the form of an antagonism between "workers" and "idlers."

From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich

In the Constituent Assembly its members did not number more than 30 out of the 578 of the third estate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

It had long been said that the third estate paid with its property, the nobility with its blood, the clergy with its prayers.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William