This 1994 study investigates the evolution of a new ideal in polity in 1789 and the reaction of French society to it ... Challenging criticisms of the Assembly and the constitution, The Remaking of ...

By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused ... the Third Estate seceded and formed the National Assembly. On July 11 Louis XVI ordered the army to disband it. On July 14 a mob stormed the ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe ... would not grant them citizenship as decreed by the National Assembly of France in its "Declaration of the Rights of Man." ...

After the revolution of 1789, French citizens sought uniform weights and measures throughout the nation. The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s divided National Assembly on Thursday kept a centrist member of President Emmanuel Macron’s party as speaker after a chaotic early election produced a hung legislature.