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 was the lower class that won the battles of the third estate; that took the Bastille, and made France a constitutional monarchy; that took the Tuileries, and made France a Republic.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
In spite of the king's commands the representatives of the third estate refused to organize themselves in the old way as a separate order.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
