It is an "Etat Second" with its own memory and separated from the waking state by complete amnesia.
A member of theEtat Major asked how we overcame the language difficulty.
A Meeting With "Forain" We lunched with General Petain and his Etat Major.
In April of the same year the Belgian chambers authorized the king to be the chief of the state founded by the Association, which had already taken the name of Etat Independent du Congo.
From the Tiers Etat they cannot get it, because they are already squeezed to the last drop.
You will see this well explained in the "Conference entre un ministre d'etat et un Conseiller au parliment," which I send you, with some small pamphlets.
Orleans has lately rendered himself very popular by decided declarations in favor of the Tiers Etat in all their points.
These Notables consist principally of Nobility and Clergy; the few of the Tiers Etat among them being either parliament men, or other privileged persons.
If this project of theirs succeeds, a combination between the two Houses of Clergy and Nobles, will render the representation of the Tiers Etat merely nugatory.
The clergy and nobility, as clergy and nobility eternally will, are opposed to the giving to the Tiers Etat so effectual a representation as may dismount them from their backs.
This vote, balancing that of the Notables, has placed the court at liberty to follow its own views, and they have determined that the Tiers Etat shall have in the States General as many votes as the clergy and nobles put together.
They have given to the Tiers Etat a representation in the States equal to both the other orders, and it is probably they will form but one house and vote by persons; but that is not decided.
As there was no response, the Tiers Etat on the 12th named Bailly provisional president and commenced verification.
The Tiers Etat insisted that the deputies of all three estates should have their powers verified in common as the first step towards making them all members of one House.
On the 7th the Tiers Etat sent deputations to exhort the other estates to union, while the clergy sent a deputation to it with the proposal that each estate should name commissioners to discuss the best method of verifying powers.
By these proceedings the Tiers Etat and a few of the clergy declared themselves the national legislature.
Hence it became the first object of the Tiers Etat to effect the amalgamation of the three estates.
The Tiers Etat accepted the proposal and conferences were held, but without result.
The Tiers Etat (Third Estate) was dissatisfied that the question of joint or separate deliberation should have been left open.
The present article deals with the progress of the Revolution itself from the convocation of the states-general to the coup d'etat of the 18th Brumaire which placed Napoleon Bonaparte in power.
Nothing can be better than his summary of this vast conception: 'Tous les ages sont enchaines par une suite de causes et d'effets qui lient l'etat du monde a tous ceux qui l'ont precede.
In the expression I feel," he says (L'Etat Mental, p.
One day not long after the coup d'etat a eunuch came rushing into our compound, his face scratched and bleeding, and knocking his head on the ground before me, begged me to save his life.
When his mother recovered he sent her to Shanghai, and at the time of the coup d'etat he failed to get out of the city and went into hiding.
The fire which I mentioned yesterday as having been seen by me from the Viaduct of the Point du Jour was caused by the blowing up of the riding school of the École d'Etat Major, which was filled with cartridges.
They were at once led to conclude that the Conseil d'Etat in France was a great tribunal, established in the centre of the kingdom, which exercised a preliminary and somewhat tyrannical jurisdiction in all political causes.
The fact is that Paris, in spite of her excessive conservatism in certain directions, has, and ever since the Great Revolution has had, an etat d'esprit revolutionnaire.
Decrees of Conseil d'Etat will settle every question as it arises was always the Government's reply.
We must not forget, too, that Conseil d'Etat means Conseil du Grand Orient.
In the last few days of November, as the rumour of a Coup d'Etat was circulating, the prince-president was accused of seeking the position of emperor.
The Coup d'Etat terror was beginning to make itself felt, an overwhelming terror which kept the South in a state of tremor for many a long month.
He had heard him repeat several times that the Coup d'Etat must prove a failure.
And it was only now he learnt by chance that his eldest brother regarded the success of the Coup d'Etat as certain!
And thus the dramas of their individual lives recount the story of the Second Empire, from the ambuscade of the Coup d'Etat to the treachery of Sedan.
In this state of mind, he welcomed the Coup d'Etat with the ardent, obstreperous delight of a hound scenting the quarry.
If a Coup d'Etat should burst forth, the tocsin will be heard throughout the entire country, from the forests of the Seille to the plateau of Sainte-Roure.
The official news of the Coup d'Etat did not reach Plassans until the afternoon of December 3--a Thursday.
Towards two o'clock it was rumoured that the Coup d'Etat had failed, that the prince-president was imprisoned at Vincennes, and that Paris was in the hands of the most advanced demagogues.
It was decided on this memorable evening that the yellow drawing-room party should accept the Coup d'Etat and openly declare that it was in favour of accomplished facts.
On August 16th, Inspecteur d'Etat Warnant, Commander in-chief of the Force Publique, arrives at Irebu.
Next day we make a formal call on Mr. Mahieu, Inspecteur d'Etat of the Congo State, whose headquarters are at Leopoldville.
The account he gives of the people in his Etat present de l'Eglise is most laudatory, and strangely at variance with a report made by Duchesneau, the intendant, a few years earlier.
A coup d'etat was not beyond the pale of possibility.
I feel sure, from inside information, that Headquarters would like nothing known about this coup d'etat until it's consummated.
Appendix XII Some Notes On Map--Making The most fascinating maps for tried traveller are the wonderful Cartes d'Etat Major and of Ministre de l'Intérieur in France.
One of the great works of the omnific Touring Club de France is the preparation of what might be called pictorial inventories of the historical monuments and natural curiosities of France made on the large-scale maps of the Etat Major.
They were at once led to conclude that the conseil d'etat in France was a great tribunal, established in the centre of the kingdom, which exercised a preliminary and somewhat tyrannical jurisdiction in all political causes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "etat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
