Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes Biography

Birth of Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes

Publication of "Quest-ce que le tiers Etat?", "What is the 3rd Estate?", demands the 3rd Estate in Government

Elected as the last, 20th, of the Deputies of Paris to the States General

Publication of "Vues sur les Moyens dExecution". Publication of "Quest-ce que le tiers Etat?", "What is the 3rd Estate?", demands the 3rd Estate in Government. Publication of "Essai sur les Privilges"

Sieyes published "Vues sur les Moyens dExecution" and "Essai sur les Privilges" while developing his programme of political reform.

Publication of "Vues sur les Moyens dExecution"

Publication of "Vues sur les Moyens dExecution". Publication of "Quest-ce que le tiers Etat?", "What is the 3rd Estate?", demands the 3rd Estate in Government. Publication of "Essai sur les Privilges"

Publication of "Vues sur les Moyens dExecution". Publication of "Quest-ce que le tiers Etat?", "What is the 3rd Estate?", demands the 3rd Estate in Government. Publication of "Essai sur les Privilges"

Publication of "Quest-ce que le tiers Etat?", "What is the 3rd Estate?", demands the 3rd Estate in Government

Publication of "Vues sur les Moyens dExecution". Publication of "Quest-ce que le tiers Etat?", "What is the 3rd Estate?", demands the 3rd Estate in Government. Publication of "Essai sur les Privilges"

Sieyes published "Vues sur les Moyens dExecution", outlining means available to future national representatives.

Publication of "Vues sur les Moyens dExecution". Publication of "Quest-ce que le tiers Etat?", "What is the 3rd Estate?", demands the 3rd Estate in Government. Publication of "Essai sur les Privilges"

Elected Deputy for Paris in the 3rd Estate

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes was elected Deputy for Paris in the 3rd Estate.

Appointed Leader of the 3rd Estate in the National Assembly

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes was appointed Leader of the 3rd Estate in the National Assembly.

Elected Deputy for Paris in the 3rd Estate

Appointed Leader of the 3rd Estate in the National Assembly

Sieyes published "Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-Etat?", arguing that the Third Estate represented the nation.

Sieyes was elected as a Paris deputy of the Third Estate to the Estates General.

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes proposed that the 3rd Estate assume the title of "National Assembly".

Proposes that the 3rd Estate assume the title of "National Assembly"

Proposes that the 3rd Estate assume the title of "National Assembly"

Proposes that the 3rd Estate assume the title of "National Assembly"

Sieyes proposed that verified representatives declare themselves the national representatives, helping drive the Third Estate toward a new national assembly.

Sieyes helped formulate the oath by which deputies pledged not to separate until France had a constitution.

Sieyes helped organize the Club Breton, an early political network that later contributed to the Jacobin movement.

Sieyes presents a project for a declaration of rights during the Constituent Assembly's constitutional debates.

Sieyes submitted a project for a declaration of rights during the Assembly's constitutional debates.

Sieyes opposed immediate abolition of clerical tithes without compensation during the August debates on privilege.

The Assembly decides to use the projects of Lafayette, Sieyes and the Sixth Bureau as the principal basis for renewed drafting.

Article 14 recognizes citizens' right to consent to taxation and supervise its amount, basis, collection, duration and use.

Article 3 locates the principle of sovereignty in the nation rather than in a monarch, estate or individual.

Article 6 describes law as the expression of the general will and affirms equal access to public office according to capacity.

The adopted declaration makes national sovereignty a constitutional principle and denies independent authority to any individual or corporate body.

Sieyes presented a report on press offences as the Assembly debated the limits of political expression.

The Assembly selected Sieyes for its presidency while constitutional drafting continued.

Sieyes presented a report supporting religious toleration during the final phase of the Constituent Assembly.

Participates in the constitutional settlement that establishes a limited monarchy

Participates in the constitutional settlement that establishes a limited monarchy.

The 1789 Declaration is placed at the head of the Constitution of 1791 as its statement of fundamental principles.

Appointed Member of Committee of Public Safety

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes became a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

Appointed Member of Committee of Public Safety

Appointed Member of Council of 500

Appointed Member of Council of 500

Goes on a diplomatic mission to the Hague & helps draw up a Treaty between the French & Batavian republics

Sieyes entered the Committee of Public Safety during the final phase of the Convention and participated in post-Thermidor government.

Sieyes helped secure the reinstatement of deputies previously arrested as associates of the Girondins.

Sieyes helped advance a law of general police as the Convention tried to stabilise government after the Terror.

Sieyes signed the peace treaty concluded at The Hague between France and the Batavian Republic.

Sieyes proposed a constitutional jury intended to protect the operation of the Constitution of Year III, but the proposal was rejected.

Nineteen departments elected Sieyes to the Council of Five Hundred, and he chose to represent Sarthe.

Sieyes refused to become a member of the Executive Directory after the new constitutional government was established.

Sieyes declined the opportunity to direct the Ministry of Foreign Relations under the Directory.

An attacker shot Sieyes in the wrist during an assassination attempt, but he survived the attack.

After the Fructidor coup, Sieyes helped draft the decree that proscribed dozens of deputies associated with the defeated opposition.

Sieyes supported the victorious anti-royalist side during the coup of 18 Fructidor.

Sieyes became president of the Council of Five Hundred for a one-month term.

Plenipotentiary to the court of Berlin in order to try to induce Prussia to make common cause against the 2nd Coalition

Sieyes was appointed French ambassador to Berlin and spent about a year representing the Directory in Prussia.

Sieyes returned from Berlin after being chosen to replace Rewbell as a member of the Executive Directory.

Sieyes became president of the Directory while working toward a constitutional transformation of the unstable regime.

Appointed Consul, 1 of 3 in the Directory

Death of Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes