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The French Revolution is usually said to have begun in 1789, when the National Constituent Assembly, a parliament-like body of aristocrats, churchmen and commoners, alarmed by the violent behaviour of the peasantry — a Parisian rabble had already destroyed the symbolic but by then almost empty prison of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 — hoped to appease them by abolishing the feudal regime (4 August 1789) and passing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (26 August).
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(2007). Mathematics in the French Revolution. In: Worlds Out of Nothing. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-633-9_1
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