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Upon the refusal of the members of the Parlement, Louis XVI tried to use his absolute power to subjugate them by every means: enforcing in many occasions the registration of his reforms via Lit de justice (6 August 1787, 19 November 1787, and 8 May 1788), exiling all Parlement magistrates to Troyes as a punishment on 15 August 1787, prohibiting ...
For some hours the king and queen were in the utmost peril. With passive courage Louis refrained from making any promise to the insurgents. [8] The failure of the insurrection encouraged a movement in favour of the king. Some twenty thousand Parisians signed a petition expressing sympathy with Louis.
The elections of 1791, held by census suffrage, brought in a legislature that desired to carry the Revolution further.The rightists within the assembly consisted of 264 Feuillants, whose chief leaders, Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette and Antoine Barnave, remained outside the House because of their ineligibility for re-election.
[3] [4] [5] Combined with resistance to reform by the ruling elite, and indecisive policy by Louis XVI and his ministers, the result was a crisis the state was unable to manage. [6] [7] Between 1715 and 1789, the French population grew from 21 to 28 million, 20% of whom lived in towns or cities, Paris alone having over 600,000 inhabitants. [8]
June 25: Louis XVI returns to Paris. The Assembly suspends his functions until further notice. July 5: Emperor Leopold II issues the Padua Circular calling on the royal houses of Europe to come to the aid of Louis XVI, his brother-in-law. July 9: The Assembly decrees that émigrés must return to France within two months, or forfeit their property.
Louis XVI visits Cherbourg to see the construction site of the dam and the arsenal. 1789: 14 July: The French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille. 1793: 21 January: Former King of France Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. The National Convention had taken power a few months earlier. 7 June
Proclamation of the Constitution on the place du marché des Innocents on September 14, 1791, by Jean-Louis Prieur, (Musée de la Révolution française). After very long negotiations, the constitution was reluctantly accepted by King Louis XVI in September 1791.
Louis XVI of France dismisses popular Chief Minister Jacques Necker. Sunday, 12 July: An angry Parisian crowd, inflamed by a speech from journalist Camille Desmoulins, demonstrates against the King's decision to dismiss Necker. Paris is in a state of generalized riot. There are clashes between the protesters and the riders of the Royal-Allemand ...