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Day of 21 January 1793 – the death of Louis Capet at the Place de la Révolution, by Charles Monnet (1794). Louis XVI, former King of France since the abolition of the monarchy, was publicly executed on 21 January 1793 during the French Revolution at the Place de la Révolution in Paris.
The execution of Olympe de Gouges, feminist writer close to the Girondins. In early December, Robespierre accused Danton in the Jacobin Club of "too often showing his vices and not his virtue". [56] Camille Desmoulins defended Danton and warned Robespierre not to exaggerate the
The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as martyr saints of the Catholic Church.
The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France which began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.
After the French Revolution, Sanson was instrumental in the adoption of the guillotine as the standard form of execution. After Joseph-Ignace Guillotin publicly proposed Antoine Louis's new execution machine, Sanson delivered a memorandum of unique weight and insight to the French Assembly. [18]
French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution (1 C, 146 P) Pages in category "People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Jean-Baptiste Carrier is popularly cited as having devised this method of execution. This form of execution is attributed to French Revolutionary Jean-Baptiste Carrier, [10] who was sent to Nantes to suppress the counterrevolutionary forces and to appoint a Revolutionary Committee. One historian described the use of the practice as follows:
The polarizing figure of the French Revolution was described frequently by his enemies as the nephew of Damiens. Though untrue, the libel held considerable credibility among royalists and foreign sympathizers. [18] For others, Damiens's execution became a cause célèbre exemplifying the barbarism of the Ancien Régime. [19]