French constitutional monarchy
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Constitutional monarchy of France (1791–1792)
Key facts
- Capital
- Paris
- Common languages
- French
- Religion
- Constitutional
- Demonym
- French
- Government
- Constitutional monarchy
- King
- Louis XVI
- Legislature
- Legislative Assembly
- Flight to varennes
- 20–21 June 1791
- Constitution adopted
- 3 September 1791
- Storming of the tuileries
- 10 August 1792
- Republic proclaimed
- 21 September 1792
- Currency
- Assignat
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Encyclopedic overview
The Kingdom of France (the remnant of the preceding absolutist Kingdom of France) was a short-lived constitutional monarchy that existed from 3 September 1791 until 21 September 1792, when it was succeeded by the French First Republic.
On 3 September 1791, the National Constituent Assembly forced King Louis XVI to accept the French Constitution of 1791, thus turning the absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French constitutional monarchy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.