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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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the National Assembly
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composed of the representatives of the three states called together by Louis        in May 1789
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it becomes transformed by the victory of the                      into the National Assembly
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July 1789
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after storming of the                 
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one of Louis XVI's brothers is so                    with the political situation and the intervention of the populace, so he decides to emigrate
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a few others have left and went home as well
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but the great majority of clerics and the nobles join with the            Estate
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become part of the National                 
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governed France in conjunction with the         
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started receiving news from all over               
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peasants had
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taken matters into their own hands
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attacked chateaus
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seized                   
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refused to pay           
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August 4, 1789
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peak of rebellion in                       
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the only way to respond to this is to recognize that many of our feudal rights must       
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make wholesale                      of rights and exemptions
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propose article to abolish              regime completely
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but then pull back on this
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eventually it is qualified in a significant way
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the great mass of harvest dues are regarded as a legal form of rent
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"feudalism is                   , but the system must continue as it is until we find a way for the lords to be                        for what they lost"
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this hesitation as to whether the feudal system is or is not abolished completely
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becomes the center of the rural phase of the revolution for the next few           
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August decrees are much more            about other matters
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Article 9. privilege in taxation abolished
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one common                  system for all French people
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Article 10. all special privileges of                   , towns and communities
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Article 17. Louis XVI is the Restorer of French               
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after all he was the one who called the                General together
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three days after the storming of the Bastille he rode into Paris from                     
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at that moment he weds the white color of the                royal family to the red and blue colors of the city of Paris to create the red, white, and blue symbol of the French nation
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, August 27, 1789
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1. Men are born and remain free and            in rights
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2. these rights are liberty, property, security, and                      to oppression
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3. the principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation, with the people
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like their colleagues across the                 , legitimate power now must come from           
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this is the most                change in the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
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legitimacy now came from below
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Louis XVI had been King of France by the Grace of       
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was responsible to God alone for the well-being of his people
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what the National Assembly was effectively saying was that they were reversing the whole foundation of political                     
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4. liberty consists in being able to do anything that is not                to others, only the law may determine these limits
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these rights are not gifts of the monarch, they are rights that belong to people as human beings
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has 17 articles
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each is a direct                        of monarchical and feudal society
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the task of the National Assembly is to now put these principle in practice
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key elements of society changed
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absolute monarchy to:                              monarchy
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divine right to:                sovereignty
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privilege to: equality in taxes, laws and               
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hierarchy of birth to:           , talent
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               abolition of feudalism

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Versaille ⇒ Versailles
monarchial ⇒ monarchical
An Introduction to the French Revolution
The Essentials of 18th Century France
18th Century French Clergy and Nobility
The Importance of Regionalism and Locality in 18th Century France
The Contribution of the Philosophes to the French Revolution
What were People of 18th Century France Reading?
The Atlantic Democratic Revolution and the Republic of Letters
1780s France Financial Crisis and its Repercussions
The Third Estate in Revolt
The Peasantry in Revolt
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The October Days
1789-91: Making the New Nation
Unresolved Issues of the Revolution
The Turning Point in Church Reform