By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused ... the Third Estate seceded and formed the National Assembly. On July 11 Louis XVI ordered the army to disband it. On July 14 a mob stormed the ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants ... called the National Assembly. Initially, most of the delegates ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe ... would not grant them citizenship as decreed by the National Assembly of France in its "Declaration of the Rights of Man." ...

After the revolution of 1789, French citizens sought uniform weights and measures throughout the nation. The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of ...