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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

1748 - 1836

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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (3 May 1748 – 20 June 1836), usually known as the Abbé Sieyès (traditional French pronunciation: [sijɛːs]; modern pronunciation: [sjejɛs]), was a French Catholic priest, abbé, and political writer who was a leading political theorist of the French Revolution (1789–1799); he also held offices in the governments of the French Consulate (1799–1804) and the First French Empire (1804–1815). His pamphlet What Is the Third Estate? (1789) became the political manifesto of the Revolution, which facilitated transforming the Estates-General into the National Assembly, in June 1789. He was offered and refused an office in the French Directory (1795–1799). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès is the 1,154th most popular politician (down from 803rd in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from France (down from 308th in 2019) and the 97th most popular French Politician.

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès is most famous for being a French Revolutionary and the author of Qu'est-ce que le Tiers État? (What is the Third Estate?).

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 1,154 out of 19,576. Before him are Constantine IX Monomachos, Frederick V of Denmark, Yun Posun, Modu Chanyu, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, and Şehzade Cihangir. After him are Bernie Sanders, Petro Poroshenko, Yeongjo of Joseon, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Abul Kalam Azad, and Ptolemy VI Philometor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 6. Before him are Jacques-Louis David, Jeremy Bentham, Charles XIII of Sweden, Charles IV of Spain, and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. After him are Olympe de Gouges, Claude Louis Berthollet, Adam Weishaupt, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William V, Prince of Orange, and Johann Friedrich Gmelin. Among people deceased in 1836, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 5. Before him are André-Marie Ampère, Charles X of France, Letizia Ramolino, and James Madison. After him are Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, William Godwin, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Anthony of Saxony.

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In France

Among people born in France, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 377 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude of France (1499), René Goscinny (1926), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Jean Renoir (1894), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), and Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010). After him are Colette (1873), André Malraux (1901), Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Robert Guiscard (1016), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), and Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 97. Before him are Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1275), Anne of Brittany (1477), Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), Diane de Poitiers (1499), Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804), and Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010). After him are Matilda of Boulogne (1103), Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Dagobert I (611), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Louis IV of France (920), and Patrice de MacMahon (1808).

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