title: 1790 in France
text: # 1790 in France
  
  Events from the year 1790 in France.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Louis XVI
  
  ## Events
  
  * 4 February - Louis XVI declares to the National Assembly that he will maintain the constitutional laws.
  * 4 March - France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces, in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
  * July - Louis XVI accepts a constitutional monarchy.
  * 12 July - The Civil Constitution of the Clergy law is passed.
  * 14 July - The Fête de la Fédération is held.
  * 31 August - Nancy affair.
  * 4 September - Résignation of Jacques Necker.
  * 24 October - Tricolour adopted as the flag of France by the Constituent Assembly.
  * 24 November - The Constituent Assembly passes a law requiring all Roman Catholic priests to swear an oath of acceptance of the new Constitution.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 6 March - Jacques Arago
  * 1 April - Auguste Couder
  * 9 June - Abel-François Villemain
  * 29 July - Nicolas Martin du Nord
  * 7 August - Jean-Claude Colin
  * 21 October - Alphonse de Lamartine
  * 10 November - Jean René Constant Quoy
  * 27 November - Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes
  * 6 December - Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant
  * 20 December - Jean Joseph Vaudechamp
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 6 May - Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
  * 24 May - François-Henri Clicquot
  * 3 July - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle
  * 17 October - André Désilles
  