Friday April 5

National Convention

  • comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly of France and 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 Revo, utters the famous phrase that "Louis XVI must die so that the country can live.

January 12, 1793

  • Citizen Louis Capet guillotined formerly know as Louis XVI

June 24th 1793

  • Ratification o 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
  • was a period of violence that occured after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions
  • mass executions of "enemies of the revolution"
  • The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris) and another 25,000 in summary executions across France
  • Summary Execution-an execution with no due process, hearing or trial and the accused is killed within a few hours, methods: guillotine, being pulled limb from limb by oxen or decapitation by sword

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 do la Revolution
  • the next day Marie Antoinette get the guillotine

Research

  • what countries in Europe tried to defeat the French during the French Revolution? Why?
  • 1 paragraph
  • individually
  • same google doc
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