I’m not sure if there’s any connection between 5th Estate and 5th Column. The ultimate origins are separate, but there may have been a pun implied: that the 5th Estate is a sort of 5th Column which could undermine the country from within, but that it had the legitimacy of an Estate-General, at least in the minds of people who felt that their “revolution” was justified. I’m not sure who came up with 5th Estate; I didn’t know about the coffee house name, but that’s my guess as to their anarchic thinking.
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- alex 9-09-2005 7:45 pm