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Essai sur les privilèges

1789 Subjects: Politics and government, Forms: Essays, Pamphlets Translation Status: Source-text French Paris URL

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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
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An essay on privileges, and particularly on hereditary nobility: Wiritten (sic) by the Abbé Sieyès, a member of the national assembly, and translated into English, with notes, by a foreign nobleman, now in England translation has paratext

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A polemical essay first published in November 1788, which reflects Sieyès contempt for the privileged elites, and whose bracing style stood out in the torrent of late 1780s political pamphlets.