Feuillants district

One of the sixty districts into which Paris was divided in 1789 for the elections to the Estates General. The capital was reorganised again into 48 sections the following year.

Appears in these Letters:

1789

8 August: The Duchess Rides Through the Great Fear

The duchess felt trapped in Paris following the Revolutionary events of July 1789. She decided to leave Paris for her provincial estates at Moreuil in...