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From 7 May 1830, Thierry had already been a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ; in 1841, on the motion of Villemain, the Académie française awarded him the first Prix Gobert.

He continued to receive this prize for the next fifteen years.

Moreover, he had been asked to edit a volume of the series Documents inédits containing a selection of acts bearing on the history of the Third Estate.

Helped by collaborators ( including Bourquelot and Louandre ) he compiled, in four volumes, Recueil des monuments inédits de l ' histoire du Tiers Etat ( 1850 – 70 ), which, however, bear only on the northern part of France.

The preface appeared afterwards in a separate volume under the title of Histoire du Tiers Etat.