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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 the chief 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 704,543 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès is the 819th most popular politician (up from 864th in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from France (up from 340th in 2019) and the 82nd 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 819 out of 15,577Before him are Feodor III of Russia, Tamar of Georgia, Galla Placidia, Sigismund II Augustus, Viktor Yushchenko, and Romanos IV Diogenes. After him are Alexander Kerensky, William III of the Netherlands, Constantine IX Monomachos, Stefan Dušan, Ancus Marcius, and Christian IV of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 5Before 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, William V, Prince of Orange, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Christian Gottlob Neefe, and Petar I Petrović-Njegoš. Among people deceased in 1836, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 5Before him are André-Marie Ampère, Charles X of France, James Madison, and Letizia Ramolino. After him are Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, William Godwin, Maria Malibran, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, James Mill, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and Davy Crockett.

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In France

Among people born in France, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 315 out of 6,011Before him are Édouard Daladier (1884), Frédéric Passy (1822), Isabella of France (1295), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Fernand Braudel (1902), and Raynald of Châtillon (1123). After him are Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Françoise Sagan (1935), Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), Carlo Buonaparte (1746), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707).

Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ranks 82Before him are Louis VI of France (1081), Chlothar I (498), Joan I of Navarre (1273), Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682), and Édouard Daladier (1884). After him are Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1275), Diane de Poitiers (1499), Elisabeth of France (1602), Raymond Poincaré (1860), James I of Aragon (1208), and Constantine II (316).