# Abbé Sieyès — The Rights of Man character guide

> Abbé Sieyès in The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the Abbé Sieyès, Sieyès

**First appearance:** 0002-part-first-being-an-answer-to-mr-burke-s-attack-on-the-french-revolution

## Who they are

French revolutionary clergyman and author of political pamphlets.

## In the story

### [Of the Old and New Systems of Government](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_rights_of_man_se/chapters/iii-of-the-old-and-new-systems-of-government)

Paine addresses this chapter to the Abbé Sieyès, to whom he is engaged to discuss monarchical government.

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