tiers état
Americannoun
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One of the couriers was stopped twice or thrice, as supposed to pass from the King; but redeemed himself by pretending to be despatched by the tiers état.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
It had found, at last, recognition more or less explicit in the noblesse and the "tiers état."
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird
Even in the hall reserved for dignitaries and officials the fare was the same as for us in the tiers état.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham
For this reason the tiers état, in all their complaints, always displayed more irritation against the newly ennobled than against the old nobility.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
But the following year, the King having tried to raise the six deniers voted by the assembly of 1313 to twelve, the clergy, nobility, and tiers état combined to resist the extortions of the government.
From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
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