The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was set by France national Constituent Assembly in 1789 as a human and civil rights document of the French Revolution. Inspired by Enlightenment philosophers, it stated the core values of the Revolution and had a major impact on the development of individual liberty and democracy in Europe and beyond. Its French title is sometimes rendered in modern usage as the Declaration of Human and Civil Rights.
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