When they proclaimed that the ‘feudal regime was abolished in its entirety’ in the decrees that issued from the momentous Night of August 4 th (those of August 4 th, 6 th, 7 th, 8 th, and 11 th ) what exactly did the revolutionary legislators intend? 1 The large number of (mostly French) historians whose scholarship has focused on feudal abolition have mainly tended to approach feudalism from a political-economic perspective-as a mode of rural production and as a hierarchical social system based on the expropriation of the fruits of peasant labour by a landowning class of lords. 2 Anatoli Ado, Paysans en Révolution: Terre, pouvoir, et jacquerie, 1789-1794, Paris, SER, 1996 Alph (.)ġ One of the first and most emphatically-stated goals of the French Revolution was the abolition of feudalism.Fitzsimmons, The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1 (.) 1 On the Night of August 4 th, see Michael P.
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