# Le Chapelier Law suppresses guilds and worker combinations (1791)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1791-le-chapelier-law-suppresses-guilds-and-worker-combinations
Location: France

Revolutionary lawmakers abolished guild structures and prohibited worker coalitions. Within the broader French Revolution period, The Revolution dismantled legal privilege and absolute monarchy, declared new rights and created a republic. War, popular mobilization, civil conflict and political terror repeatedly transformed the revolutionary state. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Louis XVI (King of France). Le Chapelier Law suppresses guilds and worker combinations mattered because it changed the legal or constitutional framework within which French institutions and citizens operated. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Le Chapelier Law suppresses guilds and worker combinations mattered because it changed the legal or constitutional framework within which French institutions and citizens operated.

Ruler at the time: [Louis XVI](https://history-france.com/rulers/louis-xvi)

## Sources
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