third estate

Example Sentences

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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

This usurpation of power on the part of the third estate transformed the old feudal Estates, voting by orders, into the first modern national representative assembly on the continent of Europe.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey

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

Voltaire soon afterwards purchased a third estate at Ferney, just a little over the French border, and here, eventually, he lived en grande seigneur, and was known as the “patriarch of Ferney.”

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)