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Ultimately, Sieyès failed to establish the kind of bourgeois revolution he had hoped for, one of representative order " devoted to the peaceful pursuit of material comfort.

" His initial purpose was to instigate change in a more passive way, and to establish a constitutional monarchy.

According to William Sewell, Sieyès ' pamphlet set “ the tone and direction of The French Revolution … but its author could hardly control the Revolution ’ s course over the long run ”.

Even after 1791, when the monarchy seemed to many to be doomed, Sieyes “ continued to assert his belief in the monarchy ” which indicated he did not intend for the Revolution to take the course it did.