The National Assembly responded. On the Night of August 4, 1789, one by one members of the nobility and clergy rose to give up feudal dues, serfdom, the tithe, hunting and fishing rights, and personal privileges. In one night feudalism was destroyed in France. "What a nation, what glory, what an honor to be a Frenchman" remarked one bourgeois delegate.
The National Assembly responded. On the Night of August 4, 1789, one by one members of the nobility and clergy rose to give up feudal dues, serfdom, the tithe, hunting and fishing rights, and personal privileges. In one night feudalism was destroyed in France. "What a nation, what glory, what an honor to be a Frenchman" remarked one bourgeois delegate.