1. French Revolution and bourgeois society
“What is the third estate? Everything. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it ask? To become something in the political order” [2]. The catchy words of Abbé Sieyès in his political pamphlet Qu’est-ce que le tiers-état? (1789; “What Is the Third Estate?”) can be understood as the founding manifesto of bourgeois society and the revolutionary elimination of the estates (Esta…