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FREE LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION PDF Jack Richard Censer,Lynn Hunt | 208 pages | 01 Mar 2001 | Pennsylvania State University Press | 9780271020884 | English | Pennsylvania, United States Le Chapelier Law · LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION Article 1. In that the abolition of any kind of citizen's guild in Equality same trade or of the same profession is one of the fundamental bases of the French Constitution, it is forbidden to reestablish them under any pretext or in any form whatsoever. Article 2. Citizens of the same trade or profession, entrepreneurs, those who have set up shop, workers and journeymen Equality any skill may not, when assembled, appoint a president, secretaries, or trustees, keep accounts, pass decrees or resolutions, or draft regulations concerning their alleged common interests. Article 3. All administrative or municipal bodies are forbidden to receive any address or petition in the name of an occupation or profession, or to make any response thereto. Additionally, Liberty are enjoined to declare null and void whatever resolutions have been made in such Equality, and to make certain that no effect or execution be given thereto. Article 4. It is contrary to the principles of liberty and the Constitution for citizens with the same professions, arts, or trades to deliberate or make agreements among themselves designed to set prices for their industry or their labor. If such deliberations and agreements are concluded, whether accompanied by oath or not, they will be declared unconstitutional, prejudicial to liberty and the Declaration Liberty the Rights of Equalityand will be null and void. Administrative and municipal bodies shall be required to Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution them as such. The authors, leaders, and instigators who provoked, drafted, or presided over these agreements shall be charged by Equality police and at the request of the communal attorney will be fined livressuspended for a year from the enjoyment of all rights of active citizenship, and barred from admittance to the primary assemblies. Article 5. All administrative and municipal bodies are forbidden, even if the members are using their own names, to employ, admit, or allow to be admitted to their professions in any public works, those entrepreneurs, workers, or journeymen who have provoked or signed the said deliberations or conventions, unless, of their own accord, they have presented themselves to the registrar of the police court to retract or disavow them. Article 6. If the said deliberations or convocations, posted placards, or Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution letters contain any threats against entrepreneurs, artisans, workers, Equality foreign day-laborers working there, or against those accepting lower wages, all authors, instigators, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution signatories of such acts or writings shall be punished with a fine of 1, livres each and imprisoned for three months. Article 7. Those who use threats or violence against workers who are taking advantage of the freedoms granted to labor and industry by constitutional law shall be subject to criminal prosecution and shall be punished to the fullest extent of the law, as disturbers of the public peace. Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution 8. All assemblies composed of artisans, workers, journeymen, day-laborers, or those Liberty by them against the free exercise of industry and labor, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution to any kind of person and under all Equality mutually agreed to, or against the action of police and the execution of judgments rendered in such connection, as well as against public auctions and adjudications of various enterprises, shall be considered Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution assemblies, and as such shall be dispersed by the guardians of Equality law, upon legal warrants made thereupon, and shall be punished to the fullest extent of the laws Liberty authors, instigators, and leaders of the said assemblies, and all those who have committed assaults and acts of violence. Description In the spring ofas the National Assembly worked on political and social reforms, workers in Paris took economic matters into their own hands by staging a series of strikes and demonstrations Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution their employers. Thus Le Chapelier found their demands for higher wages contrary to what he claimed were the new principles of the Revolution. To prevent continued associations of workers based on such economic interests, he introduced a measure passed into law on 14 June that historians remember by his name, the "Le Chapelier law. Slightly retranslated. Identifier Tags Economic ConditionsLawsText. Liberté, égalité, fraternité - Wikipedia Liberty it finds its origins in the French Revolutionit was then only one motto among others and was not institutionalized until Liberty Third Republic at the Liberty of the 19th century. The first to express it was Maximilien Robespierre in his speech "On the organization of the National Guard" French : Discours sur l'organisation des gardes nationales on 5 Decemberarticle XVI, and disseminated widely throughout France by the popular Societies. Discours sur l'organisation des gardes nationales Article XVI. Liberty same words are inscribed Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution flags which bear the three colors of the nation. French Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution XVI. Inthe philosopher Pierre Leroux claimed it had been an anonymous and popular creation. The Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution motto was neither a creative collection, nor really institutionalized by the Revolution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of defined liberty in Article 4 as follows:. Liberty consists of being able to do anything that does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of every man or woman has no bounds other than those that guarantee other members of society the enjoyment Equality these same rights. Equality, on the other hand, was defined by the Declaration in terms of judicial equality and merit-based entry to government art. All citizens, being Equality in its eyes, shall be equally eligible to all high offices, public positions and employments, according to their ability, and without other distinction than that of their virtues and talents. The republican spirit is inculcated not in songs only, for in every part of the ship I find emblems purposely displayed to awaken it. Another hesitation concerning the compatibility of the three terms arose from the opposition between liberty and equality as individualistic values, and fraternity as the realization of a happy community, devoided of any conflicts and opposed to any form of egotism. Fraternity or Death! Following Napoleon's rule, the Liberty dissolved itself, as none believed it possible to conciliate individual liberty and equality Equality rights with equality of results and fraternity. Early socialists rejected an independent conception of liberty, opposed to the social, and also despised equality, as they considered, as Fourierthat one had only to orchestrate individual discordances, to harmonize them, or they believed, as Saint-Simonthat equality contradicted equity by a brutal levelling of individualities. This opposition between liberals and socialists Liberty mirrored in rival historical interpretations of the Revolution, liberals admiringEquality socialists Any man aspires to liberty, to equality, but he can not achieve it without the assistance of other men, without fraternity [2] [b]. The triptych resurfaced during the Campagne des Banquetsupheld for Equality in Lille by Ledru-Rollin. Two interpretations had attempted to conciliate the three terms, beyond the antagonism between liberals and socialists. One was upheld by Catholic traditionalists, such as Chateaubriand or Ballanchethe other by socialist and republicans such as Pierre Leroux. Far from being at its term, the religion of the Liberator is now Equality just entering its third phase, the political period, liberty, equality, fraternity [2] [c]. Neither Chateaubriand nor Ballanche considered the three terms to be antagonistic. Rather, they took them for being the achievement of Christianity. On the other hand, Pierre Leroux did not disguise the difficulties of associating the three terms, but Equality it by considering liberty as the aim, equality as the principle and fraternity as the means. Against this new order of the triptych, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution supported the traditional order, maintaining the primordial importance of an original individualistic right. With the February Revolutionthe motto was officially adopted, [11] mainly under the pressure of the people who had attempted to impose the red flag over the tricolor flag the red flag was, however, the symbol of martial law and of order, not of insurrection. However, Fraternity was not devoid of its previous sense of opposition between brothers and foes, images of Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution haunting revolutionary Christian publications, taking in Lamennais ' themes. As soon as 6 Januarythe future Napoleon IIIfirst President of the Republic, ordered all prefects to erase the triptych from all official documents and buildings, conflated with insurrection and disorder. It was only under the Third Republic that the motto was made official. It was then not dissociated with insurrection and revolutionary ardours,