1791 in France

This page relates to the year 1791 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

January 30th: Mirabeau is elected president of the National Assembly.
February 16th: Relative law with the organization of the National police.
February 21st: Jean-Baptiste Massieu, appointed clergy of the Baillage of Senlis to the General states, is elected, with Beauvais, constitutional bishop of the department of the Oise by 193 votes out of 331.
March 2nd: The Loi of Allarde removes the Corporation S and proclaims the principle of the freedom to the work, the trade and industry.
March 10th: bubble Quod Alicantum : the Pape pushes back the civil Constitution of the clergy and recalls to Louis XVI the oath of the sacring.
March 15th: Rupture of the diplomatic relations of France with the the Holy See. The nuncio with Paris is pointed out in June.

Spring: Foundation of the Club of Breaking into leaf the (Barnave, Fayette, Sieyès, Beugnot, Pastoret, Girardin…) resulting from the scission of the Club of the Jacobins.
April 1st: The future Maréchal of Empire Louis-Alexandre Berthier is named adjudant-general colonel.
April 2nd: Death of Mirabeau. The advisers of the Court will be Barnave, Duport and Lameth.
April 4th: The Constituante adopts the decree which ends in “with the great men the grateful fatherland” (this dedication was then registered on the pediment of the building), expect that the great men of France would be buried with the the Pantheon of Paris, in the church Holy-Genevieve, transform.
April 13rd: The pope condemns the civil Constitution of the clergy like schismatic and heretic.
April 21st: Resignation of Fayette of the National guard.
May: suppression of the Granting to Paris.
June 13rd: A decree makes it possible to recruit within the National guard volunteers to take part in external conflicts.
June 14th: Loi the Hatter founds freedom to undertake and proscribes in particular working coalitions, prohibition of the Grève (1791 - 1884).

July 11th: Thirteen years after its death, the skin of Voltaire is transferred to the the Pantheon.
July 16th: Foundation of the Club of Breaking into leaf the.
July 17th: Massacres of Field-of-March, which marks the rupture between the Constituent one (Fayette, Bailly) and the Sans-Culottes.
21 and July 29th: The Parliament allows the deaf persons to profit from the Human rights.
July 30th:

On the initiative of the appointed Armand-Gaston Camus, the constituent Assembly vote removal of the titles of Nobility.
a decree déchoit of their nationality French affiliated to a Order of knighthood installed abroad.

August 18th: the constituent Assembly removes the religious congregations with solemn wishes.
September 3rd: Completion of the Constitution, promulgated the 14, establishing the legal base of operation of a representative monarchical mode.
September 8th: Letter of the queen to her brother Léopold II, emperor of the Holy roman Empire: “ it has there only the armed force which can all repair ”.
September 12th: Fastening of Avignon in France.
September 13rd: Louis XVI approves the Constitution. He becomes king of the French .
September 14th: Decree creating the district of the Ouvèze, attached to the Drome and the district of the Vaucluse (Avignon), attached to the Rhone delta.
September 21st: Penal code.
September 27th: The Juifs of France obtain all the Droit S of Citoyen S, by a decree of the Constituent one.
September 28th: Rural code.
September 30th: Dissolution of the constituent Assembly. Legislative elections in September (60 to 75% of abstentions).
September: Olympe de Gouges writes the Déclaration of the women's rights and of the citizen .

October 1st: Opening of the legislative Parliament and first meeting (end the September 20th 1792). It is made up of rather young deputies (the members of Constituent are not authorized to represent itself), rich person (electoral mode of the money marc). The line is formed by the group of Breaking into leaf (250 deputies), which follows the triumvirs (Barnave, Duport, Lameth) and Fayette. On the left, the Jacobins (150 deputies) are directed by Brissot, Condorcet, Vergniaud, Guadet, Gensonné. Discussed with the Club the Jacobins influence the debates with the Parliament (influence of Robespierre which is not appointed). To the center, a majority (350 deputies) very attached to the Constitution and the Revolution, is presented in the form of independent, since nonaffiliated to a club.
9 and October 11th: Riots directed against the refractory priests with Paris.
October 14th: Decrees making compulsory the membership of the National guard for all the citizens voters from 18 to 60 years.
16 and October 17th: Massacres of the Refrigerator to Avignon.
October 31st: Decree against the emigrants of which the number increased after Varennes. The Parliament the nap to return to France before January 1st 1792. Beyond, the emigration will be regarded as a crime compared to the conspiracy and liable to capital punishment and confiscation of the goods.
October: Lessart, Foreign Minister.

November 9th: The count de Provence is threatened of the loss of its rights to the succession if it does not regain France.
November 17th: Jerome Pétion is elected mayor of Paris.
November 29th: Decree requesting the king, person in charge of the diplomacy, to summon the Rhenish princes, who lodge the emigrants, to disperse them.
November 29th: Decree against the refractory priests. The Parliament decides that all the priests must lend oath under penalty of losing the pensions and treatments which they perceive. The law returns refractories personally responsible for the religious disorders.
the king refuses the sanction of these decrees the November 11th and the December 19th.

December 3rd: Rupture of the diplomatic relations between revolutionary France and Austria. Vienna sends to Paris the conclusum of the Diet of Ratisbon of August 6th, 1791, which subordinates the business of the possessionnés Princes to the Austrian policy. The letter of Léopold II which accompanies the sending by this conclusum is interpreted like a final diplomatic rupture between the possessionnés princes and Louis XVI, responsible by Merlin for Douai, on November 28th, 1790, to carry out the negotiations.
Violent one engagements between the militia of Avignon and Carpentras (winter 1791 - 1792).

Jean-Baptiste Bessières, future Maréchal of Empire is sent in the constitutional Garde of the King Louis XVI.

average Harvest. The prices start again to go up as of October. The rise related to inflation is caused by circulation of assignats and with the mistrust of the peasants who prefer to store rather than to deliver their grains in quickly being depreciated exchange of a currency.

the National Assembly founds a postal service for all the roads of France and order 120 mail coaches.

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