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  2. Trial of Louis XVI - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Flight to Varennes - Wikipedia

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    The route from Tuileries Palace to Varennes-en-Argonne (approximate distance 250 km). The royal Flight to Varennes (French: Fuite à Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris to Montmédy, where the King ...

  4. Execution of Louis XVI - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Louis XVI - Wikipedia

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    Louis XVI (Louis-Auguste ... but it was for this determined plot that he was eventually convicted of high treason. [51] ... Two events led up to the trial for Louis XVI.

  6. Revolutionary Tribunal - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. National Convention - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Bribes, treason and hay bales: The scattered history of ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  9. Girondins - Wikipedia

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    At the trial of Louis XVI in 1792, most Girondins had voted for the "appeal to the people" and so laid themselves open to the charge of "royalism". [citation needed] They denounced the domination of Paris and summoned provincial levies to their aid and so fell under suspicion of "federalism" as on September 25, 1792. [30]