The Third Estate and the King's Council of State

The abbe c s wrote a pamphlet entitled what is the third estate. It was designed to become one of the great documents of the french revolution. C s had dealt first hand with the nobility's unenlightened privileges and ambitious ambitions. He recommended that the delegates from the third ignore the other two orders and declare themselves to be the only legitimate national assembly. In it, he says: "What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing"