... 28th September 1791 yet within a year the king had lost his throne and the constitution had been brushed aside. The French revolution of 1789 did not set out to end the monarchy. It aimed to create a liberal constitutional government with the king continuing to be responsible for national administration. This was believed to have been achieved by the establishment of the constitution of September 1791. Even radicals such as Robespierre believed that not more needed to be done to translate the bold promises of the 'Declaration of rights of man' into glorious realities. However in reality the new constitution was a product of compromise which had been drafted in by a constituent assembly half a whose members were nobles and clergy and only agreed to by the king as a means to recover the throne after the storm of the Bastille in 1789. The situation was one of stalemate ...

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