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 third estate in France was divided into the bourgeoisie and the peasantry and small artisans.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
Hence, to Saint Simon the antagonism between the third estate and the privileged classes took the form of an antagonism between "workers" and "idlers."
From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
The diet now advanced to the work of framing a constitution; while the representatives of the third estate were, in the meanwhile, admitted to a seat in the assembly.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
