1 nov 1788 - The National Assembly

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Representatives of the Third Estate seceded from the Estates General and proclaimed themselves the National Assebly. They met at an indoor tennis court and vowed to provide France with a new constitition. They also wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen which proclaimed the equality of all men, reaffirmed popular sovereignty and asserted rights to liberty, security and property. The Assembly took "life, liberty, and fraternity" as its goals and abolished the old social order (ancien regime), altered the role of the Church, and abolishing the First and Second estates. They made the King into the Chief Executive Official but deprived him of legislative authority, turning France into a constitional monarchy.

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