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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, (born May 3, 1748, Fréjus, France—died June 20, 1836, Paris), churchman and constitutional theorist whose concept of popular sovereignty guided the National Assembly in its struggle against the monarchy and nobility during the opening months of the French Revolution.

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès (1748-1836), commonly known as Abbé Sieyès, was a French clergyman and political writer, who became a leading voice in the Third Estate during the French Revolution (1789-99). Sieyès played instrumental roles in both the opening and closing events of the Revolution and sought a government that reflected the Third ...

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748-1836) was the liberal French clergyman who became an influential political writer, best known for authoring the 1789 pamphlet What is the Third Estate? Born to a middle-class family in southern France, not far from Cannes, Sieyès trained at a Paris seminary and entered the priesthood in 1773.

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès was a liberal member of the clergy who, shortly before the Revolution, wrote a highly influential pamphlet called 'What Is the Third Estate?' Its argument, that the third...

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789 by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, 1789 (Wikimedia Commons) Emanuel Joseph Sieyès (March 3, 1748 – June 20, 1836) was a Catholic clergyman and a towering figure in the French Revolution. Known throughout his life as Abbé Sieyès, he was born in Fréjus in 1748, and received his ...