The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Revolutionary Legislation (1789–1795)

What this note covers

1. 1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (26 August 1789): Principles and Their Limits
2. 2. The Abolition of Feudalism: The August Decrees and Their Incomplete Reality
3. 3. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790): Church, State, and the Schism That Divided France
4. 4. The Constitution of 1791 and the Fall of Constitutional Monarchy
5. 5. The Radical Republic and the Terror (1792–1794): When Ideals Consumed Themselves
6. 6. The Constitution of 1795 (Year III): The Thermidorian Settlement and Its Contradictions
7. 7. Assessing Change and Continuity: How 'New' Was the New Society?

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