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unusual facts about Third Estate


Étienne Marcel

As a delegate of the Third Estate, he played an important role in the general assemblies held during the Hundred Years War.


Thomas Verny

Lawyer in the Parliament of Toulouse, Thomas Verny was elected député of the third estate of the bailiwick of Montpellier in the Estates-General of 1789


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Jean Joseph Mounier

There, and in the Constituent Assembly, he was at first an upholder of the new ideas, pronouncing himself in favour of the union of the Third Estate with the two privileged orders, proposing the famous Tennis Court Oath, assisting in the preparation of the new constitution, and demanding the return of Jacques Necker.