On August 26: the Constituent Assembly approved the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen’ draft primarily by LafayetteMarquis de LaFayette was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought several battles in the American Revolutionary War, also appointed as a Commander of the National Guard at Paris.., whose first article states that “men are born, and all live equal in rights“.
The document stated the Assembly’s responsibility to replace the ancien régime and the beginning of a new era with a system based on an equal opportunity, freedom of speech, equality, property stability, popular sovereignty, and representative government. This was the significant contribution of French revolution to the world.