Revolutions Podcast - The New Legislative Assembly

After the national assembly closed its doors on september thirtieth, 17 91, french revolutionary politics took zero days off. The next morning a new legislative assembly convened for the first time elections. Robespierre's self denying decree prevented national assembly delegates from standing for election. Of the 700 and forty five delegates to the legislative assembly, only a handful were drawn from the ranks of the old first and second estates. Most of the le slative assembly delegates had spent the last two and a half years of the revolution living and working in the districts they now represented.