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Assembly declares equality of access to office

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1789

Assembly declares equality of access to office

Bailly, Jean-Sylvain · Versailles · Mayor of Paris

The abolition of privileges advanced the principle that citizens should qualify for offices on equal terms. Bailly chaired an Assembly moving from a society of estates toward a new basis of public service.

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