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What was the central question of "What Is the Third Estate?"?

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The central question of "What Is the Third Estate?" was: what was the role of the Third Estate, the common people, in French society? Abbe Sieyes, the author of the pamphlet, argued that the Third Estate was the most important part of society, as it was the source of all wealth and productivity.
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