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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 (French: [sjejɛs]), was a French Roman Catholic abbé, clergyman, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès has received more than 762,263 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès is the 803rd most popular politician (up from 818th in 2019), the 308th most popular biography from France (up from 315th in 2019) and the 77th 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 803 out of 19,576. Before him are Walter Ulbricht, Tamar of Georgia, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Hideki Tojo, Gro Harlem Brundtland, and Taejong of Joseon. After him are Al-Ma'mun, Igor of Kiev, Andromache, Charles XIII of Sweden, Publius Quinctilius Varus, and Alexis of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 5. Before him are Jacques-Louis David, Jeremy Bentham, Olympe de Gouges, and Charles IV of Spain. After him are Charles XIII of Sweden, Adam Weishaupt, Claude Louis Berthollet, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William V, Prince of Orange, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, and Christian Gottlob Neefe. 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 Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William Godwin, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Davy Crockett, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Maria Malibran, and Claude-Louis Navier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 308 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques de Molay (1243), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), John I of France (1316), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), and René Goscinny (1926). After him are William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Constantine II (316), Chlothar I (498), Raymond Poincaré (1860), Claude Lorrain (1600), and Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 77. Before him are Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Robert II of France (972), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), and John I of France (1316). After him are Constantine II (316), Chlothar I (498), Raymond Poincaré (1860), Georges Clemenceau (1841), Diane de Poitiers (1499), and Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781).

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