InterContinental Geneva of being even more spacious. The original reception area, which incorporated a shopping mall, was replaced with a Great Hall with "monumental columns and grand staircases." The Woods Restaurant, located near the entrance, has a custom-made table fashioned from tree trunks and the cabinets are also made of wood. In the Bar des Nations, the fireplace is double storied and made of limestone. The guest rooms are of contemporary design, and with subtle lighting, they provide views of Lake Geneva and the Alps. InterContinental Geneva InterContinental Geneva is a luxury hotel operated by InterContinental in Geneva, Switzerland. Established in 1964,
What Is the Third Estate? What Is the Third Estate? What Is the Third Estate? () is a political pamphlet written in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French thinker and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836). The pamphlet was Sieyès' response to finance minister Jacques Necker's invitation for writers to state how they thought the Estates-General should be organized. In the pamphlet, Sieyès argues that the third estate – the common people of France – constituted a complete nation within itself and had no need of the "dead weight" of the two other orders, the first and second