ABSTRACT
The old regime was destroyed in principle, but most of its institutions and administrative staff remained until new laws should replace them. For long months the Constituent Assembly continued the foundation work it had begun in September. As they laboured, the members of the Assembly paid close attention to aristocratic intrigue and popular unrest. This period was well characterized by the popularity accorded Lafayette, idol of the partisans of this bourgeois revolution that had turned into a constitutional monarchy-Lafayette who, like those partisans, thought to reconcile opposing forces.
