04/05/13

[4th LizzK]

• National Convention
  • Comprised of the constitutional and legislative assembly of France.
  • Sat from September 20, 1792 to October 26, 1795.
  • It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic.
  • The Republic ended in 1804, when Napoleon changed it to the First French Empire.
• December 3, 1792
  • Louis XVI is brought in front of the courts for trial.
  • Robespierre, a leader in the French Revolution, uttered the famous phrase "Louis XVI must die so that the country can live."
• January 21, 1793
  • Citizen Louis Capet guillotined. Formerly known as Louis XVI.
• June 24, 1793
  • Ratification of new Constitution by National Convention, but not yet proclaimed. Slavery is abolished in France until 1802.
  • 1802 is around the rise of power for Napoleon and he thinks that slavery is a good deal for France.
• Reign of Terror
  • September 5, 1793 - July 28, 1794.
  • A period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions.
  • Mass executions of "enemies of the revolution".
  • The death toll range din the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris), and another 25,000 in summary executions across France.
• Summary Executions:
  
  • An execution without a trial, hearing, due process, etc. 
  • Killed by Guillotine, pulled apart, decapitated by a sword.
  • If accused, you were dead in a couple of hours.

• October 15, 1793

  • Queen Marie Antoinette is impeached and convicted for treachery against the country, and for incest with her child, the Dauphin, and is condemned to be executed in the Place de la Revolution.

  • The next day, Marie Antoinette get the guillotine.