5549 AM · 1789 CE · world history
The French Revolution
The fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man overturn the European order.
A fiscal crisis forces the king to summon the Estates-General for the first time in 175 years. The third estate declares itself a National Assembly, and on 14 July a crowd takes the Bastille. Within two years privilege is abolished, the Rights of Man proclaimed, and French Jews become the first in Europe granted full citizenship.
Sources
Documents of the period
- documents and chronicles of the period — the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) and the decrees of the National Assembly
Scholarship
- studies in European history — the emancipation of the Jews of France in 1790–1791 — the first in Europe
Basis: documents and evidence.