Federation Day.

Louis XVI and the Constituent Assembly in the capital, "ministerial despotism" halted and the bases of natural law stated and recognized by the representatives of the French people, the Revolution seems to be able to calm down and evolve towards a system of constitutional monarchy. However, events will not turn in this direction. While the Assembly is struggling with the insoluble difficulties arising from the decisions taken on August 4, the country will, little by little, suffer from an ideological divide that is growing. The desperately indecisive king oscillates between opinions as varied as they are pernicious. A large part of the army, won over to the popular cause, wants, like the common people, to push the Revolution towards much more radical limits. Many nobles, and with them the majority of France, traditionally sympathetic to the king and to religion, also began to rise up. Thus, to strengthen the conquests of the summer of 1789, federations of municipalities and provinces were created throughout the country, responsible for representing and maintaining the spirit of the States General. This vast movement culminates, on July 14, 1790 (anniversary date of the storming of the Bastille), in the great celebration of the National Federation which takes place, in the general joy and in the presence of the royal family, on the Champ-de-France. -March, in Paris. Taileyrand celebrates mass there, and the mystical marriage between the king and the nation seems once again to be renewed. Simple delusion. Two days before the feast of the Federation, the Constituent Assembly adopted a text which, once again, will precipitate the course of events; this text concerns The Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
The flight from Varennes and the end of the Constituent Assembly. Inconceivable, for a clergy who saw themselves alienated