Sieyès

[ sye-yes ]

/ syɛˈyɛs /

noun

Em·ma·nu·el Jo·seph

[e-ma-ny-el zhaw-zef] /ɛ ma nüˈɛl ʒɔˈzɛf/, Abbé Sieyès,1748–1836, French priest and revolutionist.

Example sentences from the Web for sieyes

This certainly was not very democratic, and yet Sieyes was soon afterwards the most rampant of all possible democrats.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 |Various
The Sieyes Constitution can disembark itself, and begin marching.

A Wanderer in Paris |E. V. Lucas
Bernadette had already been tampered with by Sieyes and Ducos, and he rejected Napoleon's flatteries as he had theirs.

The History of Napoleon Buonaparte |John Gibson Lockhart
Sieyes was greatly alarmed at the generosity of some of Napoleon's acts.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV |Various

That of Sieyes in particular, and that of Talleyrand, are master-pieces, full of life and expression.

The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 2 (of 4) |Thomas Babington Macaulay

British Dictionary definitions for sieyes

Sieyès

/ (French sjejɛs) /

noun

Emmanuel Joseph (ɛmanɥɛl ʒozɛf), called Abbé Sieyès. 1748–1836, French statesman, political theorist, and churchman, who became prominent during the Revolution following the publication of his pamphlet Qu'est-ce que le tiers état? (1789). He was instrumental in bringing Napoleon I to power (1799)

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