Fête de la Fédération
1790 · Event
On the Bastille's first anniversary, 300,000 Parisians watch Louis XVI swear loyalty to the new constitution on the Champ de Mars, Talleyrand saying mass over the Altar of the Fatherland. The Revolution's brief moment of unity — king, church and people apparently reconciled.
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