Paris Letters on Estates General and French Parliaments
In July 1790 the writer in Paris to a London friend surveys the Estates General and the future of French law. He notes the likely dissolution next May, a new elected body, and a simplified codification of civil and criminal laws. He describes Parliament reforms, pensions to members, and the risk to lawyers, with debates on the Parliaments’ origins and roles. He contrasts French and British liberty, and explains army defection and current strength of the National Guard.
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Cicero
Europe
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Iid
Louis Xivth
France
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Great Britain
University of Cambridge
Thomas Edwards
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J. Merrill
Cambridge
T. Cadell
The
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B. White and Son
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T. Payne and Son
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Faulder
New Bond Street
G. and
T. Wilkie
Parisian Military Mania and National Uniforms Across Social Life
The observer notes 66 000 in Paris with 6000 paid, reviews 15 600 at Champ de Mars, King and Marquis de la Fayette review in line and column, uniforms blue with red facings, cockade colors, women wear ribbons. Boys and even infants join Grenadier companies. a veteran earns pennies by displaying his children in National dress. Three acts of military exhibition include manual drills, sword lessons, and a military dance ending in a boxing match between siblings. The scene blends politics and spectacle as the Assembly draws on past experience and echoes American regulations while warning of possible paths to despotism.
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