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The Society of 1789 (French: Club de 1789), or the Patriotic Society of 1789 (French: Société patriotique de 1789), was a political club of the French Revolution inaugurated during a festive banquet held at Palais-Royal in May 13, 1790 by more moderate elements of the Club Breton.
Die Gesellschaft von 1789 (frz. club de 1789 oder aber auch Société patriotique de 1789) war ein politischer Klub in der Zeit der Französischen Revolution. Gegründet wurde er vom moderaten Flügel der Jakobiner am 13. Mai 1790 während eines Banketts im Palais Royal.
Reign of Terror and execution of Louis XVI. French Revolutionary Wars. Establishment of the French Consulate in November 1799. The French Revolution [a] was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the ...
- The Decision to Summon The Estates
- Convening The Estates-General
- Proceedings and Dissolution
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First Assembly of Notables and peasants
The suggestion to summon the Estates General p from the Assembly of Notables installed by the King on 22 February 1787. The Estates General had not been called since 1614. In 1787, the Parlement of Paris was refusing to ratify Charles Alexandre de Calonne's program of badly needed financial reform, due to the special interests of its noble members. Calonne was the Controller-General of Finances, appointed by the King to address the state deficit. As a last measure, Calonne was hoping to bypas...
Rebellion of the Parlements
Turning again to the parlements, the king found that they were inclined to continue the issues that had been raised in the Assembly of Notables. Their proper legal function, besides giving advice to the king, was only to register, or record, his edicts as law, a matter of simple obedience, which the king's antecessors had been able to command, sometimes by sternness, threats, and losses of temper. Unless registered, the edicts were not lawful. On 6 July 1787, Loménie forwarded the Subvention...
The Jacobins
The transfer of power to the new government was to begin on 8 May 1788 with the registration of the edicts establishing it in the regional Parlement. The latter refused unanimously following the Parlement of Paris. If the King's commissioners forced the issue, Parlement abandoned the meeting place only to return the next day to declare the registration null and void. Armed protests swept the kingdom. Street fighting broke out at Rennes, Brittany. A deputation sent to Paris from there was impr...
Edict of 24 January 1789
The Estates-General were summoned by a royal edict dated to 24 January 1789. It comprised two parts: a Lettre du Roi, and a Règlement. The Lettreannounces: 1. "We have need of a concourse of our faithful subjects, to assist us surmount all the difficulties we find relative to the state of our finances... These great motives have resolved us to convoke the assemblée des Étatsof all the provinces under our authority ...." The King promises to address the grievances of his people. The "most nota...
Elections of early spring 1789
The First Estate represented 100,000 Catholic clergy; the Church owned about 10 percent of the land and collected its own taxes (the tithe) from peasants. The lands were controlled by bishops and abbots of monasteries, but two-thirds of the 303 delegates from the First Estate were ordinary parish priests; only 51 were bishops.The Second Estate represented thenobility, about 400,000 men and women who owned about 25 percent of the land and collected seigneurial dues and rents from their peasant...
Opening of the Convention
On 5 May 1789, amidst general festivities, the Estates-General convened in an elaborate but temporary Île des États set up in one of the courtyards of the official Hôtel des Menus Plaisirs in the town of Versailles near the royal château. With the étiquette of 1614 strictly enforced, the clergy and nobility ranged in tiered seating in their full regalia, while the physical locations of the deputies from the Third Estate were at the far end, as dictated by the protocol. When Louis XVI and Char...
The Estates-General reached an impasse. The Second Estate pushed for meetings that were to transpire in three separate locations, as they had traditionally. The Comte de Mirabeau, a noble himself but elected to represent the Third Estate, tried but failed to keep all three orders in a single room for this discussion. Instead of discussing the King'...
Wilde, Robert (2014). "The Estates General and the Revolution of 1789". about.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) Territorium der Vereinigten Staaten März–August 1789. Bill of Rights. 4. Februar: George Washington wird vom Wahlkongress einstimmig zum ersten Präsidenten der USA gewählt. Vizepräsident wird John Adams. 4. März: Die Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten tritt in Kraft. 30.
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale), which existed from 17 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly of the Kingdom of France formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (commoners) of the Estates-General and
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution, the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America, between 1776 and ...
