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The indoor
riding academy called the
Salle du Manège was the seat of deliberations during most of the
French Revolution, from 1789 to 1798.
Before the revolution, the
Salle du Manège ("Riding Hall"), situated next to the
Tuileries Palace in Paris, was home to the royal equestrian academy. Built during the minority of
Louis XV, when it lay conveniently close to the Regent's
Palais Royal, it was allowed to pass afterwards from hand to hand as the site of privately conducted riding schools, though it was never formally sold.
On
November 9,
1789, the
National Constituent Assembly, formerly the
Estates-General of 1789, moved its deliberations from Versailles to the Tuileries in pursuit of
Louis XVI of France and installed itself in the
Salle du Manège on the palace grounds. Having nationalised the goods of the Church, the
Assemblée nationale, requiring more space than the
Manège alone could provide, extended its occupation to two adjacent convents, those of the
Capuchins, which soon housed the Revolutionary printing presses in its former
refectory, and of the
Feuillants, whose handsome library received the archives of the Assemblée.
The proportions of the
Salle du Manège, ten times as long as it was wide, offered poor acoustics for the debates that went on continually under its high vaults. Six tiers of banquettes (
illustration, right) permitted space for the deputies, ranged on either side of the central tribune, initially planned for the orators' podium. Seated together for solidarity, the deputies seated themselves according to their political opinions, to right and to left of the president's desk,
The Mountain and the
Girondins, with The Plain seated in the lowest rank of banquettes, from which they were wont to cross to the opposite side, as their opinions dictated. The public found places to witness the spectacle at either end of the hall and in the loge seats above.
In 1792 the
Salle du Manège became the venue for the
National Convention. In 1795 under the
French Directory, the
Council of 500 sat in the structure until the body moved to the
Palais-Bourbon in 1798. In 1799, the
Jacobin Club du Manège had its headquarters there.
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