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The trial of Louis XVI—officially called "Citizen Louis Capet" since being dethroned—before the National Convention in December 1792 was a key event of the French Revolution. He was convicted of high treason and other crimes, resulting in his execution .
The provisional Tribunal was abolished in November 1792 at the start of the trial of Louis XVI, and during this time had sentenced twenty-eight people to death. Mostly these were ordinary criminals rather than political prisoners. [14]: 202 [15]
The 1794 Treason Trials, ... Gurney argued that the comment was an indictment of tyranny in general or of Louis XVI, ... The Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason ...
Louis XVI (Louis-Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754-21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.Louis XVI was the husband of Marie Antoinette.
Louis XVI and his family being transferred to the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. Engraving by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1792.. Following the attack on the Tuileries Palace during the insurrection of 10 August 1792, King Louis XVI was imprisoned at the Temple Prison in Paris, along with his wife Marie Antoinette, their two children and his younger sister Élisabeth.
He was put on trial in 1983 after prosecutors acquired a tape that included him saying he had accepted more than $100,000 in bribes from organised crime. ... He was ousted in 1797 for treason and ...
The trial of Louis XVI. The Convention's unanimous declaration of a French Republic on 21 September 1792 left open the fate of the former king. A commission was therefore established to examine the evidence against him while the Convention's Legislation Committee considered legal aspects of any future trial.
A post shared on Facebook claims New York Judge Juan Merchan was purportedly executed by the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps on Dec. 23, 2024. Verdict: False The claim is false ...