The season of La Grande Peur – the Great Fear – was characterised by social hysteria and anxiety over who was going to be the next victim.
After the passing of the August Decrees on 4 August 1789 he decisively turned against the course of political events in France.
Reformist deputies had managed to pass sweeping legislation in the weeks after the Bastille's fall, including the revolutionary August Decrees (which formally abolished most noble and clerical privileges) and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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