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

In order to moderate the selfishness and tyranny of the first and second estates, composed of the clergy and nobility, he erected the cities into a third estate, of equal legislative authority.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

The third estate in France was divided into the bourgeoisie and the peasantry and small artisans.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

The woman’s rights movement has very few adherents in the third estate, and it is exactly the women of this estate that ought to be the natural supporters of the movement.

From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Schirmacher, Kaethe