Enlightenment · Europe · Politics

1790

Festival of the Federation

July 14, 1790

A year after the Bastille fell, 300,000 Parisians gathered on the Champ de Mars for a secular mass on liberty altars. Talleyrand celebrated. Lafayette swore an oath. Louis XVI, still king, swore one too. For an afternoon, it seemed the Revolution might end peacefully in a constitutional monarchy. It did not.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: October 5, 1789: Women's March on Versailles
After: June 20, 1791: Flight to Varennes

Before and after in Politics

Before: October 5, 1789: Women's March on Versailles
After: March 4, 1791: Vermont Admitted as 14th State

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.