The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c7.7

c7.7

The revolution began in France with the conversion of the “third estate” into the National Assembly under the influence of Siéyes on June 17, 1789. The monarchy was abolished and France declared a republic by the Convention (the third revolutionary government) on September 22, 1792. But during these thirty-nine months neither the prominent leaders, Siéyes, Mirabeau, Lafayette, nor the demagogic journalists and ultra-radical “friends of the people”, Desmoulins, Marat, Danton, nor even the people themselves in the thousand and one *cahiers* (pamphlets on the grievances to be redressed) ever expressed any desire to do away with the royalty as an institution. Even the “rights of man” did not include the abolition of kingship.