Revolution from 1789 To 1906

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Documents 1789 May 5: Estates-General meet. 1789 June 15: Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly. 1789 June 20: It is excluded from its usual meeting-place. 2 OATH TAKEN BY THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON JUNE 20, 1789, IN THE TENNIS COURT THE National Assembly, holding that, when it...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Documents 1789 May 5: Estates-General meet. 1789 June 15: Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly. 1789 June 20: It is excluded from its usual meeting-place. 2 OATH TAKEN BY THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON JUNE 20, 1789, IN THE TENNIS COURT THE National Assembly, holding that, when it has been called to settle the constitution of the Kingdom, effect the regeneration of public order, and maintain the true principles of the monarchy, nothing can prevent it from continuing its deliberations and completing the important task for which it has met, in whatever place it is forced to establish itself, and, finally, that wherever its members meet, there is the National Assembly, has decided that all the members of this Assembly shall at once take an oath never to separate, but to meet wherever circumstances dictate, until the constitution of the Kingdom and public regeneration are established and settled; and that, after the taking of the said oath, all members, and each member individually, shall confirm this irrevocable resolution with their signatures. In the National Assembly at Versailles in the Tennis Court 1789 July 14: Fall of the Bastille 1789 August 4: Decree on Feudal rights. 3 'J. P. MARAT'S AMI DU PEUPLE, NO. XI. SEPT. 21, ON THE DECREE OF AUGUST 4 DURING the four months'sessionof the Estates-General a thousand tiny questions have been raised, a thousand complimentary and congratulatory speeches delivered, in which the most facile Orators have exhausted all the devices of eloquence; but not one single article of the Constitution, the desired of all France, has yet been sanctioned. It is true that the National Assembly has issued numerous petty edicts which have been extolled to heaven by pamphleteers and received ent...