1789 ⟶ National Assembly in Permanent Session; Paris Governance Begins
July 13: The National Assembly declares itself in permanent ...
Year
1789
1792
🏛️ National Assembly in Permanent Session; Paris Governance Begins
July 13: The National Assembly declares itself in permanent session. At the Hôtel de Ville, city leaders begin to form a governing committee and an armed militia.⟶
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📜 National Assembly Forms Constitutional Committee
July 6: The National Assembly forms a committee of thirty members to write a new Constitution.⟶
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🇫🇷 King Louis XVI in Paris, Nobility Emigration Begins
July 17: The King visits Paris, where he is welcomed at the Hôtel de Ville by Bailly and Lafayette, and wears the tricolor cockade. Sensing what is ahead, several prominent members of the nobility, including the Count of Artois, the Prince de Condé, the Duke of Enghien, the Baron de Breteuil, the Duke of Broglie, the Duke of Polignac and his wife become the first of a wave of émigrés to leave France.⟶
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🏛️ National Assembly Convenes in Paris
October 19: The National Assembly holds its first meeting in Paris, in the chapel of the archbishop's residence next to Notre Dame Cathedral.⟶
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🛡️ Assembly Restricts Armed Citizen Gatherings in Paris
June 21: The Assembly bans gatherings of armed citizens within the city limits.⟶
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🛡️ Assembly Orders Army Units Away from Paris
July 15: The Assembly votes to send regular army units, whose officers largely support Lafayette, far outside the city.⟶
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