I. IntroductionOn the night of August 4 1789, the French Assemblée Constituante voted unanimously to abolish feudalism. In this paper I discuss some intensely interactive aspects of this process of collective decision-making and of the events that led up to it. I shall proceed as follows. In Section II I discuss the idea of social interaction. Section III offers a brief and selective overview of the period between the elections to the Estates-General in the spring of 1789 and the adoption of...