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

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

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

A great part of the third estate lived in the country and tilled the soil.

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