The settlement house movement<span> began in Britain in 1884 when middle-class London reformers established Toynbee Hall, the first </span>settlement house<span>, in East London to provide social services and education to the poor workers who lived there.</span>
They were all Frenchmen twenty-five years old or more, domiciled for a year and living by the product of their labor. The National Convention was therefore the first French Assembly elected by universal male suffrage, without distinctions of class.
