ears, Sieyes simply survived the Terror. Later in his career he was a member of the Committee of Public Safety, a member of the Council of Five Hundred, and received membership to the Directory, but denounced it, and finally was named a Consul in 1799. Sieyes left Paris for the Restoration and returned after the revolution of 1830. He lived six more years and died on June 20, 1836. That was Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes' life, but scholars have written various interpretations of it and its impact (Clapham 4 - 10).
             The first scholarly interpretation I examined was that of John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton. Acton wrote Lectures on the French Revolution. Acton states that, "Sieyes was essentially a revolutionist, because he held that political oppression can never be right, and that resistance to oppression can never be wrong...he (Sieyes) sacrificed equality by refusing the vote to those who paid no taxes"(Acton 161). Acton treats Sieyes as an important fi
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