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Then he posted the opening lines of “������ Is the Third Estate?” a tract published by the Abbé �������è�� in January 1789, that took up the cause of the common classes: “We have three questions before us. One — ������ is the Third Estate? EVERYTHING. Two — ������ has it been until now in the political order? NOTHING. Three — ������ is it asking for? TO BE SOMETHING.”

With the Abbe �������è��, Talleyrand and Napoleon organized the overthrow of the Directory on Nov. 9, 1799 — the 18th Brumaire, as it was called by the revolutionary calendar.

The French revolutionists, though rejecting the proposal of Siéyès and Condorcet to accord political emancipation to women, established at least an equal succession of sons and daughters, and thus initiated a great reformation of both law and opinion, which sooner or later must traverse the world.

Many, like �������è�� formerly, will vote “la mort et sans phrase,” but we shall read of unctuous motives alleged by the volunteers for their votes.

He says of the fourth estate what �������� said of the third, ������ is the fourth estate?