August Decrees

Charles Monnet

by Charles Monnet
published on 25 May 2022

The National Assembly abandons its privileges during a session on the night of 4 August 1789, leading to the August Decrees that abolished feudalism in France. Engraving by Charles Monnet and Isidore-Stanislas Helman, c. 1789.

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

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