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During the week following the storming of the Bastille, news of events spread to teh rest of France. This led to a panic as to what the response of the nobility would be to the events, The [[Great Fear]] or panic resulted, as . Many villages defended themselves against imaginary threats by forming peasents militias riots occurred and peasants proceeded to burn wealthy homes. [[Louis XVI]] and his wife, [[Marie Antoinette]], were forced from their home in Versailles by a riot of women over the high price of bread. Supposedly the snobby Antoinette responded unsympathetically to the lack of bread for the peasants by declaring, “Let them eat cake!” Historians doubt she ever actually said that.

By then The rural uprising prompted the French Revolution was National Assembly to pass a motion to 'destry the [[feudal]] regime entirely', on the 4th August. However, in full swingorder to relase himself a peasent would have to pay twenty times his annual rent to the landlord, making the measure ineffectual.

==Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen==  The Assembly also passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on the 4th August. This annuled the right of nobles to demand taxes, tithes and labor from peasents working on their family land. The declaration was inspired by teh American Revolution and was partially written by LaFayette. Unlike the American declaration that “all men are created equal,” the French version declared that “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good.” Unlike the American declaration that all men have inalienable rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” the French version declared that all men have natural rights of “liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.” Some of the French declarations seem silly, like this one: “Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.” What is the meaning of a freedom if it is arbitrarily limited by undefined “abuses of this freedom”? The declaration should have enumerated every single possible abuse, such as slander, incitement to hatred, incitement to violence, incitement to racism  [[Louis XVI]] and his wife, seditious talk[[Marie Antoinette]], violation were forced from their home in Versailles by a riot of professional secret, divulgation women over the high price of state secrets, etcbread. It should also have defined each Supposedly the snobby Antoinette responded unsympathetically to the lack of bread for the peasants by declaring, “Let them and eat cake!” Historians doubt she ever actually said that. By then the applicable penalties French Revolution was in a highly defined way. It's not as if laws could have been written later to define these abusesfull swing.