Declaration of the Rights of the Man - Aug. 26, 1789

The final articles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen were adopted on this day in 1789, during the French Revolution. There's more on the French Revolution in the February 8, 2017 episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class, "The Women's March on Versailles," and in "How the French Revolution Worked" from November 19, 2008.

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