National Assembly (French Revolution) ||This article may contain
original research. (February 2011)| |Kingdom of France| Tinted
etching of Louis XVI of France, 1792, wearing a Phrygian cap.
This caption refers to Louis's capitulation to the National
Assembly, and concludes "The same Louis XVI who bravely waits
until his fellow citizens return to their hearths to plan a
secret war and exact his revenge." |Established||17 June 1789|
|Disbanded||9 July 1789| |Preceded by||Estates-General of 1789|
|Succeeded by||National Constituent Assembly| During the French
Revolution, the National Assembly (French: Assemblée nationale),
which existed from June 17, 1789 to July 9, 1789, was a
transitional body between the Estates-General and the National
Constituent Assembly. - Estates-General had been called on May
5, 1789 to deal with France's financial crisis, but promptly
fell to squabbling over its own structure. Its members had been
elected to represent the estates of the realm: the First Estate
(the clergy), the Second