Editing Legislative Assembly (France) (section)

== Formation ==
{{main|Louis XVI and the Legislative Assembly}}
The 27 August 1791 [[Declaration of Pillnitz]] already threatened France with an attack by its neighbors. King Louis XVI favored war hoping to exploit a military defeat to restore his absolute power—the Assembly was leaning toward war and to spread the ideals of the Revolution.<ref>Thomas Lalevée, [http://www.h-france.net/rude/rudevolvi/LaleveeVol6.pdf "National Pride and Republican grandezza: Brissot's New Language for International Politics in the French Revolution"], ''French History and Civilisation'' (Vol. 6), 2015, pp. 66–82.</ref> This led in April 1792 to the first of the [[French Revolutionary Wars]].

The king vetoed many of the Assembly's bills throughout its existence such as these:
* Legislation declaring the ''émigrés'' guilty of conspiracy and prosecuted as such was passed on 8 November 1791, but vetoed by Louis.
* Enforcement of the [[Civil Constitution of the Clergy]]: on 29 November 1791, the Assembly decreed that every nonjuring clergyman who did not take the civic oath within eight days would lose his pension and—if any troubles broke out—he would be deported. Louis vetoed the decree as a matter of conscience.

Louis XVI formed a series of cabinets, veering at times as far left as the Girondins. However, by the summer of 1792, amid war and insurrection, it had become clear that the monarchy and the now-dominant Jacobins could not reach any accommodation. On 11 July 1792, the Assembly formally declared the nation in danger because of the dire military situation.

On 9 August 1792, a new revolutionary [[Paris Commune (French Revolution)|Commune]] took possession of [[Hôtel de Ville, Paris|Hôtel de Ville]] and early on the morning of 10 August the insurgents [[10 August (French Revolution)|assailed the Tuileries]], where the royal family resided. Louis and his family sought asylum with the Legislative Assembly.

The Assembly stripped Louis, suspected of intelligence with the enemy, of all his royal functions and prerogatives. The king and his family were subsequently imprisoned in the [[Temple (Paris)|Temple]]. On 10 August 1792, a resolution was adopted to summon a new National Convention, to be elected by [[universal suffrage]].

Many who had sat in the National Constituent Assembly and many more who had sat in the Legislative Assembly were re-elected. The Convention met on 20 September 1792 and became the new government of France.