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The National Constituent Assembly of France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on August 26th 1789.
The Declaration was penned by the Abbé Sieyès and the Marquis de Lafayette, in consultation with Thomas Jefferson.
It was presented to the French National Assembly on July 11, 1789, just three days prior to the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 where Lafayette himself helped to save Louis XVI as well as Marie Antoinette as head of the national guard of Paris.
The final version of the Declaration was written by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the Compte du Mirabeau. It was incorporated into the French Constitution in 1791.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen helped to form the foundation of the French Revolution, in hopes of ending the monarchy and establishing a democracy in France.
France adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.