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    Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (3 May 1748 – 20 June 1836), usually known as the Abbé Sieyès (French: [sjejɛs]), was a French Roman Catholic abbé, clergyman, and...
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    Florian (2014). Introduction to Sieyès's political theory. Brill. pp. 1–42. in Sieyès 2014. Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph (2014) [First published January 1789]...
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    Coup of 30 Prairial VII (18 June) ousted the Jacobins and left Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, a member of the five-man ruling Directory, the dominant figure...
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    denial of political rights to the common-folk majority of France, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, said: "Consequently, if it be claimed that, under the French constitution...
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    of police at Paris on 20 July 1799. The newly elected director, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, wanted to curb the excesses of the Jacobins, who had recently reopened...
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  • 1799—30 Prairial Year VII by the French Republican Calendar. It left Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès as the dominant figure of the French government, and prefigured...
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    Oath (June 20, 1789), by Couder January 1789 January: The Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes a pamphlet, What is the Third Estate? he writes; "What...
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    Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, Étienne-François Le Tourneur and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès were chosen as Directors. At the end of October a legislature consisting...
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    Council of Five Hundred and Directory: Lucien Bonaparte, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Roger Ducos and Joseph Fouché to overthrow the government. On 9 November 1799...
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    (Maraisards) After the Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799), Barras, Ducos, and Sieyès resigned. Moulin and Gohier, refusing to resign, were arrested by General...
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