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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

Also known as comte Sieyès Emmanuel Joseph, Emmanuel Joseph, comte Sieyès, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, comte Sieyes Emmanuel Joseph, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes, Abbé Sieyès

French priest and statesman (1748-1836)

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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès was a French priest and political thinker who played a significant role during the French Revolution, becoming known for his influential writings and positions on government and social organization. His ideas about representation and political reform shaped key debates during the Revolutionary period and helped define how modern democratic institutions were conceptualized.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès is referenced by 765 other articles, and connects out to Napoleon, Académie Française and Jacobins.

It sits within the topics 1748 births, 1836 deaths and 18th-century French Roman Catholic priests.

Its subject is documented across 53 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Joseph
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Fréjus
Place of death: Paris
Occupation: Latin Catholic priest
Educated at: University of Paris
Political party: The Plain
Languages spoken: French
Religion: Catholic Church
Participant in: French Revolution
Noble title: count
Movement: Age of Enlightenment
Image: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, by Jacques Louis David.jpg
Work location: Paris

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member of: National Convention
Commons category: Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
date of death: 1836-06-20
date of birth: 1748-05-03
Commons gallery: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
archives at: Archives nationales
writing language: French
influenced by: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Commons Creator page: Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
P8168: Yuliya Pakhalina

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Qu'est-ce que le tiers état?

Europe in terms of peace: a speech by Abbot Sieyes made after the dissolution of Jacobins in the secret committee of the Revolution on the 12th Frimaire in the third year of the French Republic

Réconnaissance et exposition des droits de l'homme

Europa in Bezug auf den Frieden : Eine Rede des Abt Sieyes gehalten nach der Auflösung der Jakobiner in dem geheimen Ausschuße der Revolution am 12. Frimaire im dritten Jahr der Französischen Republik

Dire de l'abbé Sieyès sur la question du veto royal, à la seance du 7 septembre 1789

Europa in Bezug auf den Frieden : eine Rede des Abts Sieyes gehalten nach der Auflösung der Jacobiner in dem geheimen Ausschusse der Revolution am 12ten Frimaire im dritten Jahre der Französischen Republik

Emmanuel Sieyès politische Schriften : vollständig gesammelt von dem deutschen Übersetzer nebst zwei Vorreden über Sieyes Lebensgeschichte, seine politische Rolle, seinen Charakter, seine Schriften etc., 1

Opinion sur la Jurie constitutionnaire : Suivie d'Observations sur l'ouvrage de Sieyès

Déclaration des droits de l'homme en société

Europa in Bezug auf den Frieden. eine Rede des Abtes Sieyes gehalten nach der Auflösung der Jacobiner in dem geheimen Ausschusse der Revolution am 12ten Frimaire im dritten Jahre der Französischen Republik. [Übers. von Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck]

Emmanuel Sieyès Politische Schriften. vollständig gesammelt von dem deutschen Uebersetzer ; nebst zwei Vorreden über Sieyes Lebensgeschäfte, seine politische Rolle, seinen Charakter, seine Schriften etc.. [Konrad Engelbert Oelsner]. 2

Opinion De M. EMM. Sieyes, Député De Paris A L'Assemblée Nationale, Le 7 Mai 1791; En réponse à la dénonciation de l'Arrête du Département de Paris, du 11 Avril précédent, sur les Edifices religieux & la liberté générale des Cultes

Observations sommaires sur les biens ecclésiastiques, du 10. Août 1789

Über Sieyesens Leben

Réconnaissance et exposition des droits de l'homme

Immanuel Sieyes' Theorie der Volksvertretung in der constitutionellen Monarchie

Préliminaire de la constitution : reconnaissance et exposition raisonnée des droits de l'homme & du citoyen

Apperçu d'une nouvelle organisation de la justice et de la police en France

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Encyclopedic overview

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). After becoming a director in 1799, Sieyès was among the instigators of the Coup of 18 Brumaire (9 November), which installed Napoleon Bonaparte in power.

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