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‖ tiers état|tjɛrz eta|
[Fr., = third estate: see tierce and estate.]
A third estate or class; esp. the third estate, the body of commons or their representatives in the French National Assembly before the Revolution; whence sometimes applied to the corresponding body in other countries: see estate n. 6.
1783J. Adams Diary 27 Feb., There are..thirty classes in the Tiers Etat. 1794J. Gifford Reign Louis XVI 260 The three orders united confirmed all those important decrees that had been made by the Tiers Etat. 1799Monthly Rev. XXX. 548 Montesquieu mistakes in affirming that the natives of the country [Russia] are all either lords or slaves, and that there was no tiers-état. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. i, Necker..emits, if any proclamation or regulation, one favouring the Tiers Etat. |