What Is the Third Estate? (French: Qu'est - ce que le tiers - état?) is a political pamphlet written in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French thinker and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748 -- 1836). The pamphlet was Sieyès ' response to finance minister Jacques Necker 's invitation for writers to state how they thought the Estates - General should be organized.
who was the author of the pamphlet called what is the third estate
French thinker and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès