ABSTRACT
The first year of the French Revolution was called the happy year in France, in which the whole country seemed to join together to work for a new government. In 1790, as the Constituent Assembly met in Paris to determine the new constitution and political clubs debated issues all over France, reform minded Englishmen formed their own political societies to consider the French Revolution. The newly elected representatives of the French nation who arrived in Paris by October 1, 1791, were primarily lawyers and landowners, whose political experience came from their involvement in the local reforms of the past few years. Throughout France, the end of the Terror brought an outpouring of relief. Within the National Convention, it brought the men who took over leadership a host of new problems.
