Constitutional Committee
Thouret joined the Constitutional Committee late in September 1789. Article five of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on his initiative, but his most important efforts surrounded the process by which France was divided into départements though 1790,
On 3 September 1791, a deputation of sixty members of the Constituent Assembly under the presidency of Thouret presented the 1791 Constitution to Louis XVI; on 13 September, the King addressed the Assembly, declaring that he accepted the Constitution.
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