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Fourth Estate

quatrième pouvoir, presse

English to French

fourth estate   \FORTH-iss-TAYT\   (noun)
     : the public press

Example sentence:
     "In my bid for reelection," declared the victorious
senator, "I did not underestimate the power of the fourth
estate."

Did you know?
     It might be news to you that the term "fourth estate" has
been around for 250 years. In Europe, going back to medieval
times, the people who participated in the political life of a
country were generally divided into three classes or "estates."
In England they were the three groups with representation in
Parliament, namely, the nobility, the clergy, and the common
people. Some other group, like the mob or the public press,
that had an unofficial but often great influence on public
affairs, was called the "fourth estate." In the 19th century,
"fourth estate" came to refer exclusively to the press, and
now it's applied to all branches of the news media.

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