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Constituent Assembly

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Constituent Assembly the parliamentary assembly of revolutionary France, set up in 1789 under the formal name of Assemblée Nationale Constituante; it was replaced by the Legislative Assembly in 1791.

The name Constituent Assembly was subsequently used for the body elected in 1917 in the first phase of the Russian Revolution; it was dissolved in 1918 by the Bolsheviks.

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