Part B$.$ Abb$$ Siey$$s$,$ What is the Third Estate? $(1789)$

What is the meaning of this excerpt from Siey$$s ${?}^2$ work? What point is he trying to make?

Who is his intended audience $-$ who is he trying to reach, and who is he expecting to read this document?

How do you think the Third Estate felt about this work? How do you think the First and Second Estates and the King felt about this work?

Based on the information you learned in class, how do you think this work affected the formation of the Estates General? What long$-$term effects do you think it inspired?

This is an excerpt from Siey$$s$\text{'}1789$ pamphlet "What Is The Third Estate?" Written in the last months of $1788$ and published at the very beginning of $1789,$ Sieyes $\text{'}$s famous pamphlet helped the Third Estate clarify its goals, unify in its demands, and laid the foundation for French revolutionary ideology.

$.$EXCERPT:

What is the Third Estate? Everything.

What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing.

What does it want to be$?$ Something.