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3 days ago · Execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Révolution. The empty pedestal in front of him had supported an equestrian statue of his grandfather, Louis XV . When the monarchy was abolished on 21 September 1792, the statue was torn down and sent to be melted.
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May 28, 2024 · The execution of Louis XVI in 1793. (more) Despite the last-minute efforts of the Girondins to save him, Citizen Capet, as he was then called, was found guilty by the National Convention and condemned to death on January 18, 1793, by 387 votes (including 26 in favour of a debate on the possibility of postponing execution) to 334 (including 13 ...
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2 days ago · Execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV previously stood. In late August, elections were held for the National Convention.
5 days ago · “Execution of Louis XVI.,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed June 3, 2024, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/682.
2 days ago · Text. Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, younger brother of Louis XVI, later ruled as Louis XVIII (1814–24). More liberal than his brothers, Provence was no friend to reform before 1789. He left the country in June 1791, establishing a royalist center at Coblentz.
May 11, 2024 · Primary Source. Louis XVI. Annotation. Here was the "body politic" of the old regime. Theoretically, France existed only as an entity in the body of the King. The citizens were his subjects; the geographical parts linked together only through the monarch. Robed and wigged, he was an emblem of a centuries–old regime.
May 17, 2024 · With the imposture exposed, it was discovered that the necklace that the cardinal had supposed to be in the queen’s possession had been broken up and sold in London. Instead of concealing the intrigue, Louis XVI had the cardinal arrested and imprisoned in the Bastille.
