the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be dismantled. Fearing powerlessness, the nobility and landowners joined the National Assembly.

At the time, French society was ... broke off and formed a national assembly. Inspired by Enlightenment principles and emboldened by the recent American Revolution, they demanded a constitution ...

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before ... earning the nickname émigrés. The French Revolution had been unleashed.

The French Revolution is a landmark period in ... In June, the Third Estate rebranded itself as the National Assembly, with plans to draft a constitution. And in August, a bunch of nobles and ...

The National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The upper house is the Senate . Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: French National Assembly ...