Abbe emmanuel joseph sieyes biography templates

also known asAbbé Sieyès

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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès was a churchman and constitutional theorist whose concept of popular sovereignty guided the National Assembly in its struggle against the monarchy and nobility during the opening months of the French Revolution.

Abbe emmanuel joseph sieyes biography templates

He later played a major role in organizing the coup d’état that brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power (1799).

Background

Sieyès was born on 3 May 1748 as the fifth child of Honoré and Annabelle Sieyès in the town of Fréjus in southern France.

Education

Educated by the Jesuits, he studied theology at the University of Paris, and though he followed an ecclesiastical career he also interested himself in political and social theory, studying social theorists from Locke to Condillac

Career

Shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, Abbé Sieyès published several pamphlets on social questions, the last of whi