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The Reforms of the
National Assembly: the Rights
of Man
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Setting up the National
Assembly was a great victory for the third estate, and the Assembly soon
got to work. The deputies in the Assembly were scared
by the violence of the peasants. On the night of the 4th
August, noble deputies, one by one, announced that they had given up their
feudal rights and dues. By the morning of the 5th of August, hunting
rights tithes,
the corvée corvée and the rights of the mill and the oven had
been abolished. Feudalism was dead. |
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Glossary:
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Three weeks later, the
Assembly made another important change to the way France was run. It issued a
"Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" (Déclaration des
droits de l'Homme et du citoyen"). Over the next two years, meeting
regularly in an old riding school, the National Assembly made many new
laws.
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