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Self-Denying Ordinance

France · Revolution / Revolution of France. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1791

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre16 May 1791

Paris · Revolution / Revolution of France

Robespierre successfully argued that members of the Constituent Assembly should not sit in the next legislature.

Names involved

Maximilien Francois Marie Robespierre

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