Salle du Manège
The Salle du Manège was a royal riding school (French: manège ) in Paris during the French Revolution from 1789 to 1793 the meeting place of the National Assembly, respectively ( as of September 1792) of the National Convention. If not, the interior is meant, it means building in the French Le Manège des Tuileries.
The building was 1715-1722, built for the young King Louis XV. , Which prevented his riding exercises there. The architect Robert de Cotte created the 120 by 20 meters long building on one side of the Jardin des Tuileries near the Tuilerienschlosses. The functional, outwardly unadorned Riding School of the Tuileries was a germ cell of the French and the entire European horsemanship. There taught from 1730 probably the most influential riding master François Robichon de la Noirmoutier.
After the outbreak of the revolution and the return of Louis XVI. moved to Paris in October 1789 which emerged from the States General National Constituent Assembly ( Constituent Assembly ) also based in the capital and met from 9 November 1789 Manege hall and so close to the monarch. Inside the very narrow space for the new purpose was remodeled and fitted some pews for Members. Overall, the use of parliamentary suffered from the cramped situation, and the acoustics were bad. For the spectators, very little space was on the surrounding gallery and the two stands Balcony ( on the narrow sides ) available.
The Constituent Assembly completed its work with the promulgation of the first French Constitution of 1791, which should provide the basis for a constitutional monarchy. In place of the Constituent Assembly became the Legislative Assembly, which was overwhelmed by the escalation of the revolution in October 1791. When the Tuileries on August 10, 1792, the royal family fled the arena and thus under the protection of the Assembly, which then led their fixing. The Legislature broke up and was replaced by a new parliament, the National Convention. It decided on the abolition of the monarchy on 21 September. In the Salle du Manège took place in December 1792, the trial of Louis XVI later executed. instead.
The Tuilerienschloss was considered a symbol of state power. It was therefore reasonable for the institutions of the young republic, there to take her seat on May 10, 1793. The ring was then freed from a part of the legislature, the " Council of Five Hundred ", used during the Board 1795-1798. In 1799 it housed in the period before the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte, a successor of the Jacobin Club. But this "Manege Club " (Club du Manège ) was unable to repeat the earlier meaning.
Napoleon took the field of Tuilerienparks before a larger transformation that fell the ring in 1803 to the victim. On the site there is now a section of the Rue de Rivoli. Plaques remember there at the historic site.