Third-Estate

Not only among the nobles, but among the bourgeoisie and the Third-Estate, the heir of any enterprise was expected to continue his calling.

The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

Why should the Third-Estate alone pay for roads on which the nobles and the clergy drive in their carriages?

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

Hence, the Third-Estate puts forth its right as incontestable, and, in its turn, it proclaims with Louis XIV, "I am the State."

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

From the very first day it can be heard toned down in Robespierre's address to the Third-Estate of Arras; [31107] the last day it is spoken aloud in his great speech in the Convention; [31108] during the interval, it crops out and shines through all his compositions, harangues, or reports, in exordiums, parentheses and perorations, permeating every sentence like the drone of

The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

Emancipated from real despotism, the Third-Estate becomes excited against possible despotism, imagining itself in slavery in consenting to remain subject.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

'Third-Estate with the clapping of hands, "tears" and enthusiasm.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

Third-Estate, considering itself deprived of the place to which it is entitled, finds itself uncomfortable in the place it occupies and, accordingly, suffers through a thousand petty grievances it would not, formerly, have noticed.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

-- In the eighteenth century a great change takes place in the condition of the Third-Estate.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

-- In conformity with the doctrines of Rousseau the registers of the Third-Estate unanimously insist on a constitution for France; none exists, or at least the one she possesses is of no value.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

During the first half of the eighteenth century I am able to discover but one center of opposition in the Third-Estate, the Parliament; and around it, feeding the flame, the ancient Gallican or Jansenist spirit.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860