The short-lived French Constitution of 1791, adopted during the period now known as the
French Revolution, went into effect in September
1791 but, due to a series of
constitutional crises, had effectively ceased to function as a national
constitution by August
1792. The constitution attempted to establish a
liberal bourgeois constitutional monarchy, under which the
unicameral Legislative Assembly would pass legislation but the king of
France (in this case,
Louis XVI) would retain a
veto. With war beginning and with increasingly radical, and ultimately
republican, forces coming to the fore in the Assembly, this proved entirely unworkable. The
August 10th insurrection was the effective end of the monarchy. The constitution dissolved in a chaos of forces, with the radical and even occasionally terroristic
Paris Commune, the municipal government of
Paris, holding the balance of power in the country until the beginning of the
National Convention on
October 1,
1792.
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