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

The first defections from the ranks of the aristocracy were made on the 13th of June, when three cur�s of Poitou took their seats with the third estate.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William

However this may have been, the good effect of the exercise of these rights, imperfect as they were, by the third estate, must be highly estimated.

From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by Prescott, William Hickling

And in this they lagged behind their contemporary theorists of the bourgeoisie, who understood very well the historical significance at any rate of the struggle of the third estate against the nobles.

From Anarchism and Socialism by Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich