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{{Short description|Legislation banning guilds in France}}
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The '''''Le Chapelier Law''''' ({{langx|fr|Loi Le Chapelier}}) was a piece of legislation passed by the [[National Assembly (French Revolution)|National Assembly]] during the first phase of the [[French Revolution]] (14 June 1791), banning [[guild]]s as the early version of [[trade unions]] (in reality the guilds were compulsory cartels, made compulsory by King Henry IV, of producers rather than organisations of employees), as well as ''{{ill|compagnonnage|fr}}'' (by organizations such as the [[Compagnons du Tour de France]]) and the [[Labor rights|right to strike]], and proclaiming [[Capitalism|free enterprise]] as the norm. It was advocated and drafted by [[Isaac René Guy le Chapelier]]. Its promulgation enraged the ''[[sans-culottes]]'', who called for an end to the [[National Constituent Assembly (France)|National Constituent Assembly]], which nonetheless continued through the second phase of the Revolution. The law was annulled on 25 May 1864, through the ''[[:fr:Loi Ollivier|loi Ollivier]]'' (proposed by [[Émile Ollivier]] and acceded to by [[Napoleon III]]), which reinstated the right to associate and the right to strike.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Le Faubourg Saint-Antoine et ses faux ouvriers: la liberté du travail à Paris aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles |publisher=Champ Vallon |date=2002 |place=Seyssel |isbn=2876733382 |first=Alain |last=Thillay}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Combination Act 1799]] sought to do the same in England.

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://revolution.chnm.org/items/show/480 Translated Text]
*{{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20060427061146/http://www.force-ouvriere.com/journal/histoire1/234.html ''La force de l'histoire'']

{{Wikisourcelang|fr|Loi Le Chapelier|Loi Le Chapelier (in French)}}

==Further reading==
*[[Active and passive citizens]]

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[[Category:History of labour law]]
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[[Category:French labour law]]
[[Category:Trade unions in France]]