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Hello everybody. In today's news, 13th November of 2018, we will go back in time to know what happened during the French Revolution.

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This period was divided in four phases. The National and Constituent Assembly, the Legislative Assembly, the Republic and the Directory and Consulate.

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This took place from 1789 to 1804.

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Today we are going to focus on the Constituent Assembly that took place from June of 1789 to September of 1791.

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Now I will go back in time. See you soon.

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Hello, we are here in Paris. Oh no, we are in Prehistory. Sorry for the mistake. Now we will be in Paris.

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Hello, I'm here in Paris in 1789.

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The third state asked for a new voting system in which its representatives would vote individually.

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The king refused, so the third state declared that, as the true representative of the nation, it was forming a national assembly.

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After that, a new constituent assembly was formed to write a constitution.

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This was a triumph for the Burgois because the monarchy was no longer absolute.

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Okay, now we are going to go with our correspondent of the attack of the Bastille, Sandra González.

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Thank you, Martín. Good morning, everyone. Today I'm going to be talking about the attack to the Bastille.

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The 14th of July of 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille,

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was attacked by a furious and aggressive multitude.

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This prison was a symbol of the monarchy's dictatorial rule.

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The event became one of the defining moments in the revolution that followed.

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When the prison was attacked, it held only seven prisoners, but the multitude had not

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gather for them. It had come to demand a huge ammunition store held within the prison walls.

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When the prison governor refused to comply, the multitude charged and, after a violent

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battle, eventually took hold of the building. The governor of the Bastille was chased and

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killed, and his head was carried round the streets on a spike. In France, the Storming

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of the bastille is still celebrated each year by a national holiday. Today the 14th of july of 1789

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we are here in paris to see the famous revolts that happened in order to attack the bastille.

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As you can see there is a lot of people gathered here protesting for their rights.

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You have to be very careful because they can attack you. Good morning France here we are in

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After the storming of the Bastille, the popular revolt spread from Paris to other cities and also the countryside,

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where peasants attacked the homes of the nobility, banned their achieves and refused to pay federal duties.

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The revolts are known as the Great Fear, Grand Père in French.

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The causes of these riots are the economic concerns, rural panic and the power of rumour.

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Many peasants responded by arming themselves and mobilizing to defend their poverty.

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Some went farther and engaged in revolutionary violence, taking to the road, looting the châteaux of landed aristocrats and destroying federal contracts.

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Few people were killed during the Great Fear. However, property worth millions of livres was either stolen or destroyed.

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Hello, my name is Gea and I'm going to talk about the abolishment of federal privileges.

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The abolition of the feudal system took place during the famous initiation of the National Assembly on August the 4th in 1789.

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In response to these events, the Constitutional Assembly passed a range of legal reforms which they hoped would satisfy the demands of the pleasantries and urban masses.

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A letter said that property of all kinds was a prey to the most criminal violence.

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On all sides, castles were being burned, convents destroyed and farms abandoned to pillage.

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The taxes of feudal dues all were extinct.

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The laws were without force and the magistrates without authority, with the hope of pacifying

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and encouraging people.

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The Assembly, in a fervor of enthusiasm and excitement, straight away abolished many of

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the ancient abuses.

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They abolished feudal privileges and the tithes paid by the Pleasantry to the clergy.

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The Assembly also established equality in the payment of taxes.

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A big part of the clergy and nobles were discontent with this measure, became country revolutionaries

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and began a campaign to defeat the revolution.

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Good morning everyone.

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I'm going to talk about the Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizens.

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The National Assembly also wrote the Declaration of Rights of Men and Citizens.

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This document puts Enlightenment ideas into practice.

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These are some articles of it.

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Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.

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Liberty consists of the freedom to do anything which does not harm others.

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All men are innocent until proven guilty.

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No man may be disturbed for his opinions, not even for his religious beliefs.

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This is a primary source because it was written during that age.

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It is one of the basic laws of human liberties, containing the principles that inspired the French Revolution.

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Its 17 articles objected between August the 20th and the August 26th in 1789.

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My friends, National Assembly serves as the parable to the Constitution of 1791.

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As we have mentioned before, in 1791 the Assembly approved the Constitution which established

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A constitutional monarchy, in which the powers of the monarch were limited by a constitution.

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Limited made to trades only made with certain amounts of property could vote.

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The separation of powers. The monarch had executive power, the assembly had legislative power, and the courts had judicial power.

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Now, let's go back to the filter.

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Oof, they are so aggressive.

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To sum up, the main principles of the French Revolution was that all men should be free

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and equal before the law.

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This led to different revolts and raids such as the storming of the Bastille or the Great

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Fair, and different social reforms as it is the case of the abolishment of feudal privileges,

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and then the declaration of the rights of the citizens and constitution.

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you for watching this episode of a living time tomorrow we will see you with prehistory

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or there's a problem with the time machine see you soon