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71 relations: Abolition of feudalism in France, Absolute monarchy, Administrative division, Adrien Duport, Ancien régime, Antoine Barnave, Antoine Destutt de Tracy, Bicameralism, Brunswick Manifesto, Campaigns of 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars, Centralisation, Champ de Mars massacre, Charles Malo François Lameth, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Citizenship, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Constitution, Constitution of 3 May 1791, Constitution of the United States, Constitutionality, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Department (administrative division), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Estates General (France), Estates General of 1789, Estates of the realm, Executive (government), Fédéré, Feudalism, François Denis Tronchet, French First Republic, French Revolution, Gérard de Lally-Tollendal, General will, Georges Danton, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, Insurrection of 10 August 1792, Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, Jacobins, Jacques Guillaume Thouret, Jean Joseph Mounier, Jean-Nicolas Démeunier, Jean-Paul Marat, Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne, Judiciary, Kingdom of France (1791–92), Legislative Assembly (France), Legislature, List of French monarchs, ... Expand index (21 more) »
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Abolition of feudalism in France
One of the central events of the French Revolution was the abolition of feudalism, and the old rules, taxes, and privileges left over from the ancien régime.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Abolition of feudalism in France
Absolute monarchy
Absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign is the sole source of political power, unconstrained by constitutions, legislatures or other checks on their authority.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Absolute monarchy
Administrative division
Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, #-level subdivisions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Administrative division
Adrien Duport
Adrien Duport (6 February 17596 July 1798) was a French politician, and lawyer.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Adrien Duport
Ancien régime
The ancien régime was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Ancien régime
Antoine Barnave
Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave (22 October 176129 November 1793) was a French politician, and, together with Honoré Mirabeau, one of the most influential orators of the early part of the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Antoine Barnave
Antoine Destutt de Tracy
Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, comte de Tracy (20 July 1754 – 9 March 1836) was a French Enlightenment aristocrat and philosopher who coined the term "ideology".
See French Constitution of 1791 and Antoine Destutt de Tracy
Bicameralism
Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Bicameralism
Brunswick Manifesto
The Brunswick Manifesto was a proclamation issued by Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, commander of the Allied army (principally Austrian and Prussian), on 25 July 1792 to the population of Paris, France during the War of the First Coalition.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Brunswick Manifesto
Campaigns of 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars re-escalated as 1793 began.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Campaigns of 1793 in the French Revolutionary Wars
Centralisation
Centralisation or centralization (see spelling differences) is the process by which the activities of an entity or organization, particularly those regarding planning, decision-making and control of strategies and policies, become concentrated within a particular group, sector, department or region within that entity or organization.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Centralisation
Champ de Mars massacre
The Champ de Mars massacre took place on 17 July 1791 in Paris at the Champ de Mars against a crowd of republican protesters amid the French Revolution. French Constitution of 1791 and Champ de Mars massacre are 1791 events of the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Champ de Mars massacre
Charles Malo François Lameth
Charles Malo François Lameth (5 October 1757 – 28 December 1832) was a French politician and soldier.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Charles Malo François Lameth
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (2 February 1754 – 17 May 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Citizenship
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Citizenship
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (Constitution civile du clergé) was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that sought the complete control over the Catholic Church in France by the French government.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Constitution
Constitution of 3 May 1791
The Constitution of 3 May 1791, titled the Government Act, was a written constitution for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth adopted by the Great Sejm that met between 1788 and 1792. French Constitution of 1791 and constitution of 3 May 1791 are 1791 documents, 1791 in law and Defunct constitutions.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Constitution of 3 May 1791
Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Constitution of the United States
Constitutionality
In constitutional law, constitutionality is said to be the condition of acting in accordance with an applicable constitution; the status of a law, a procedure, or an act's accordance with the laws or set forth in the applicable constitution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Constitutionality
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human civil rights document from the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Department (administrative division)
A department is an administrative or political division in several countries.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Department (administrative division)
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (3 May 174820 June 1836), usually known as the Abbé Sieyès, was a French Roman Catholic abbé, clergyman, and political writer who was the chief political theorist of the French Revolution (1789–1799); he also held offices in the governments of the French Consulate (1799–1804) and the First French Empire (1804–1815).
See French Constitution of 1791 and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
Estates General (France)
In France under the Ancien Régime, the Estates General (États généraux) or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Estates General (France)
Estates General of 1789
The Estates General of 1789 (États Généraux de 1789) was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate).
See French Constitution of 1791 and Estates General of 1789
Estates of the realm
The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Estates of the realm
Executive (government)
The executive, also referred to as the juditian or executive power, is that part of government which executes the law; in other words, directly makes decisions and holds power.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Executive (government)
Fédéré
The term "fédérés" (sometimes translated to English as "federates") most commonly refers to the troops who volunteered for the French National Guard in the summer of 1792 during the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Fédéré
Feudalism
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Feudalism
François Denis Tronchet
François Denis Tronchet (23 March 1726 – 10 March 1806) was a French jurist, best remembered for having defended Louis XVI of France at his trial (with Malesherbes and Deseze) and for having contributed to the writing of the French civil code.
See French Constitution of 1791 and François Denis Tronchet
French First Republic
In the history of France, the First Republic (Première République), sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, and officially the French Republic (République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and French First Republic
French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
See French Constitution of 1791 and French Revolution
Gérard de Lally-Tollendal
Trophime-Gérard, marquis de Lally-Tollendal (5 March 175111 March 1830) was a French politician and philanthropist.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Gérard de Lally-Tollendal
General will
In political philosophy, the general will (volonté générale) is the will of the people as a whole.
See French Constitution of 1791 and General will
Georges Danton
Georges Jacques Danton (26 October 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a leading figure in the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Georges Danton
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target
Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target (17 December 1733 – 9 September 1806) was a French lawyer and politician.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target
Insurrection of 10 August 1792
The insurrection of 10 August 1792 was a defining event of the French Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict with the French monarchy, stormed the Tuileries Palace.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Insurrection of 10 August 1792
Isaac René Guy le Chapelier
Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier (12 June 1754 – 22 April 1794) was a French jurist and politician of the Revolutionary period.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Isaac René Guy le Chapelier
Jacobins
The Society of the Friends of the Constitution (Société des amis de la Constitution), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality (Société des Jacobins, amis de la liberté et de l'égalité) after 1792 and commonly known as the Jacobin Club (Club des Jacobins) or simply the Jacobins, was the most influential political club during the French Revolution of 1789.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Jacobins
Jacques Guillaume Thouret
Jacques Guillaume Thouret (30 April 1746 – 22 April 1794) was a French Girondin revolutionary, lawyer, president of the National Constituent Assembly and victim of the guillotine.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Jacques Guillaume Thouret
Jean Joseph Mounier
Jean Joseph Mounier (12 November 1758 – 28 January 1806) was a French politician and judge.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Jean Joseph Mounier
Jean-Nicolas Démeunier
Jean-Nicolas Démeunier (sometimes Desmeuniers) (15 March 1751 – 2 February 1814) was a French author and politician.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Jean-Nicolas Démeunier
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat (born Mara; 24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne
Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne (14 November 1743 – 5 December 1793) was a leader of the French Protestants and a moderate French revolutionary.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne
Judiciary
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Judiciary
Kingdom of France (1791–92)
The Kingdom of France (the remnant of the preceding absolutist Kingdom of France) was a constitutional monarchy from 3 September 1791 until 21 September 1792, when it was succeeded by the French First Republic.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Kingdom of France (1791–92)
Legislative Assembly (France)
The Legislative Assembly (Assemblée législative) was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution. French Constitution of 1791 and Legislative Assembly (France) are 1791 events of the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Legislative Assembly (France)
Legislature
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Legislature
List of French monarchs
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions.
See French Constitution of 1791 and List of French monarchs
Louis XVI
Louis XVI (Louis Auguste;; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Louis XVI
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (6 May 1758 – 10 Thermidor, Year II 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Maximilien Robespierre
National Assembly (French Revolution)
During the French Revolution, the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale), which existed from 17 June 1789 to 9 July 1789, was a revolutionary assembly of the Kingdom of France formed by the representatives of the Third Estate (commoners) of the Estates-General and eventually joined by some members of the First and Second Estates.
See French Constitution of 1791 and National Assembly (French Revolution)
National Convention
The National Convention (Convention nationale) was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly.
See French Constitution of 1791 and National Convention
Paris Commune (1789–1795)
The Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government of Paris from 1789 until 1795. French Constitution of 1791 and Paris Commune (1789–1795) are 1791 events of the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Paris Commune (1789–1795)
Parliament
In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Parliament
Popular sovereignty
Popular sovereignty is the principle that the leaders of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political legitimacy.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Popular sovereignty
Preamble
A preamble is an introductory and expressionary statement in a document that explains the document's purpose and underlying philosophy.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Preamble
President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
See French Constitution of 1791 and President of the United States
Republic
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Republic
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux
The Archdiocese of Bordeaux (–Bazas) (Latin: Archidioecesis Burdigalensis (–Bazensis); French: Archidiocèse de Bordeaux (–Bazas); Occitan: Archidiocèsi de Bordèu (–Vasats)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux
Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun
The Diocese of Autun (–Chalon-sur-Saône–Mâcon–Cluny) (Latin: Dioecesis Augustodunensis (–Cabillonensis–Matisconensis–Cluniacensis); French: Diocèse d'Autun (–Chalon-sur-Saône–Mâcon–Cluny)), more simply known as the Diocese of Autun, is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun
Saint-Domingue
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1697 to 1804.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Saint-Domingue
Separation of powers
The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Separation of powers
Simon Schama
Sir Simon Michael Schama (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Simon Schama
Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre
Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre (October 10, 1747 – August 10, 1792) was a French nobleman, military officer, and politician during the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre
Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille (Prise de la Bastille) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the Bastille.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Storming of the Bastille
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath (Serment du Jeu de Paume) was taken on 20 June 1789 by the members of the French Third Estate in a tennis court on the initiative of Jean Joseph Mounier.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Tennis Court Oath
Unicameralism
Unicameralism (from uni- "one" + Latin camera "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Unicameralism
Veto
A veto is a legal power to unilaterally stop an official action.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Veto
Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.
See French Constitution of 1791 and Women's March on Versailles
See also
1791 documents
- Constitution of 3 May 1791
- Declaration of Pillnitz
- Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
- French Constitution of 1791
- Glenriddell Manuscripts
- Journals of the First Fleet
- Padua Circular
- Report on Manufactures
- Supplex Libellus Valachorum
1791 events of the French Revolution
- 1791 French legislative election
- Champ de Mars massacre
- Committee of General Security
- Committee of Public Instruction
- Day of Daggers
- Declaration of Pillnitz
- Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
- Flight to Varennes
- French Constitution of 1791
- French Penal Code of 1791
- French Revolution from the summer of 1790 to the establishment of the Legislative Assembly
- Le Chapelier Law 1791
- Legislative Assembly (France)
- Louis XVI and the Legislative Assembly
- Massacres of La Glacière
- Massiac Club
- National Constituent Assembly (France)
- Padua Circular
- Paris Commune (1789–1795)
- Revolution Controversy
- Revolutionary sections of Paris
- Self-denying Ordinance (French Revolution)
- Society of the Friends of the Blacks
1791 in law
- Constitution of 3 May 1791
- Free Royal Cities Act
- French Constitution of 1791
- French Penal Code of 1791
- Le Chapelier Law 1791
- Reciprocal Guarantee of Two Nations
References
Also known as Constitution of France (1791).