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Great Fear reaches National Assembly

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August 4th, 1789

Great Fear reaches National Assembly

Bailly, Jean-Sylvain · Versailles · Mayor of Paris

Reports of peasants attacking manor houses and destroying records placed pressure on the Assembly to respond. Jean-Sylvain Bailly presided over debates in which rural disorder framed the urgency of social reform.

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