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Katarina Kamieniecka What measures were taken to meet the demands for reform in France between 1789 and 1792? After October 1789 most Frenchmen believed that the revolution was over. During the next few years the Constituent assembly set about reorganising French government, laws, finances and the economy by applying the principles of the Declaration of Rights to give France a uniform, decentralised, representative and humanitarian system. The deputies wanted to make sure that power was decentralised by restructuring local government. Therefore it would be more difficult for the king to recover the power he had held before the revolution. By decrees of December 1789 and January 1790 the deputies divided France into 83 departments, which were subdivided into 547 districts and 43,360 communes. All these administrative groups were run by elected councils. However the reforms revealed that the deputies were not intended to let just anyone vote. A decree of October 1789...

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