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The Salle du Manège during the French Revolution
The Salle du Manège during the French Revolution

The indoor riding academy called the Salle du Manège was the seat of deliberations during most of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1798. The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an A riding academy is a school for instruction in Equestrianism, or for hiring of Horses for pleasure riding The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an

Before the revolution, the Salle du Manège ("Riding Hall"), situated next to the Tuileries Palace in Paris, was home to the royal equestrian academy. The Palais des Tuileries was a royal Palace in Paris. It stood on the right bank of the River Seine until 1871, when it was destroyed Built during the minority of Louis XV, when it lay conveniently close to the Regent's Palais Royal, it was allowed to pass afterwards from hand to hand as the site of privately conducted riding schools, though it was never formally sold. Louis XV (15 February 1710 &ndash 10 May 1774 ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774

On November 9, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly, formerly the Estates-General of 1789, moved its deliberations from Versailles to the Tuileries in pursuit of Louis XVI of France and installed itself in the Salle du Manège on the palace grounds. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all Year 1789 ( MDCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The National Constituent Assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante was formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789, during the first stages of the The Estates-General (or States-General) of 1789 (Les États-Généraux de 1789 was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General Louis XVI ( 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis-Auguste de France, ruled as King of France and Navarre Having nationalised the goods of the Church, the Assemblée nationale, requiring more space than the Manège alone could provide, extended its occupation to two adjacent convents, those of the Capuchins, which soon housed the Revolutionary printing presses in its former refectory, and of the Feuillants, whose handsome library received the archives of the Assemblée. Trapeza redirects here for the prehistoric Greek settlement see Trapeza Crete.

The proportions of the Salle du Manège, ten times as long as it was wide, offered poor acoustics for the debates that went on continually under its high vaults. Six tiers of banquettes (illustration, right) permitted space for the deputies, ranged on either side of the central tribune, initially planned for the orators' podium. Seated together for solidarity, the deputies seated themselves according to their political opinions, to right and to left of the president's desk, The Mountain and the Girondins, with The Plain seated in the lowest rank of banquettes, from which they were wont to cross to the opposite side, as their opinions dictated. The Mountain (in French La Montagne) refers in the context of the history of the French Revolution to a political group whose members called The Girondists (in French Girondins, and sometimes Brissotins or "Baguettes" were a political faction in France within the Legislative The public found places to witness the spectacle at either end of the hall and in the loge seats above.

In 1792 the Salle du Manège became the venue for the National Convention. During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the Constitutional and legislative assembly In 1795 under the French Directory, the Council of 500 sat in the structure until the body moved to the Palais-Bourbon in 1798. The Executive Directory ( Directoire exécutif) was a body of 5 single-male Directors that held executive power in France following The Council of Five Hundred ( Conseil des Cinq-Cents) or simply the Five Hundred was the Lower house of the legislature of France Palais Bourbon, a Palace located on the left bank of the Seine, across from the Place de la Concorde, Paris (which is on the right bank is In 1799, the Jacobin Club du Manège had its headquarters there. The Jacobin Club was the largest and most powerful political club of the French Revolution.


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