Legislative Assembly

Having completed their task of creating a constitution the National Constituent Assembly dissolved.  The relatively unknown Maximilien Robespierre declared that no member should stand for election to the new legislative body.

In the wake of the events of the 10th of August 1792 the Legislative Assembly decided to call for the creation of a new New National Convention based on universal suffrage.

Party breakdown in the Legislative Assembly (September 1791-September 1792).  Taken from The Longman Companion to the French Revolution, Colin Jones, Longman, Harlow (1988) p167

William Short the American chargé d'affaires notes the progress made by the Legislative Assembly in October 1791.  Taken from Witnesses to the Revolution American and British Commentators in France 1788-1794, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London (1989)  p153-154

The assembly have as yet done nothing.  Not a single decree has been passed.  Day after day is passed in vain extravagant declamation, and in receiving addresses and petitions by deputations who are admitted at the bar and who flatter the Assembly in the most ridiculous manner.  The circumstances joined to the personal want of consideration of almost all the members, expose the Assembly to popular disrespect and to the assaults of a weapon, ridicule, which in no country is more powerful than in this.