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When did the Marquis de Lafayette present his draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
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Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette, chromolithograph by P.S. Duval, 1851.
The Marquis de Lafayette presented his draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the National Assembly on July 11, 1789.1
He composed this draft with the assistance of Thomas Jefferson, and after undergoing extensive revisions, the document was officially adopted by the Assembly in August 1789.21