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Liberty’s First Draft: Citizenship After the Bastille
自由的第一稿：攻占巴士底狱后的公民身份
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On July 14, 1789, Parisians stormed the Bastille—not for guns, but for symbols of royal injustice.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, adopted in August, declared all men 'born free and equal in rights'.
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Yet women, enslaved people in colonies, and poor laborers were excluded from full citizenship at first.
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Parisian neighborhoods formed assemblies where ordinary citizens debated laws, taxes, and local justice.
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Revolutionary festivals replaced royal processions, turning streets into stages for new civic rituals.
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Schools began teaching civic duty instead of loyalty to a monarch, using pamphlets and street theater.
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In Saint-Domingue, formerly enslaved leaders read the Declaration aloud—and demanded it apply to them.
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Officials wore tricolor cockades not as fashion, but as visible pledges to popular sovereignty.
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Courts opened to public viewing, and judges explained rulings in plain French, not Latin.
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Citizenship became something you practiced daily—not something granted by birth or title.