The French Revolution in Paris (1789-1799): On the 14th July 1789, an insurrection broke out in Paris. The Bastille, a fortress symbolic of the arbitrary power of the King, was taken by an armed mob. It was the beginning of the Revolution, which comprised three phases: -From 1789-1792 the movement was controlled by the elite who wanted to reform the kingdom. The king remained at the head of the regime, but he had, nevertheless, to accept a constitution and an Assembly which voted on the laws. The Parisian mob went to Versailles to seek him and to install him in the Tuileries in Paris. They wanted to keep a watch on him. Thus the monarchy returned to Paris. During this period utopian ideas reigned. In a frenetic atmosphere, everyone understood that power had passed from the hands of a single man – the absolute monarch – to the entire population. The representatives of the people, united in the Assembly, adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the abolition of the privileges of the nobility and suppression of the wealth of the clergy. It was planned that the State would pay the clergy.