The Women’s March on Versailles
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So last time we talked about the conservative-ish reaction in the National Assembly to the chaos of the Summer 1789. The Declaration of the Rights of Man had been passed, sure, but as France’s new political constitution began to take shape, the moderately conservative Monarchian, led by Jean Joseph Mounier, […]
The Rights of Man
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. On the morning of August 5, 1789, the delegates of the National Assembly woke up with a bit of a legislative hangover. The night before had turned into a raucous orgy of bold and far reaching declarations, denunciations, and renunciations. But now that it was morning and whatever the Bretton […]