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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 .
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.
Speech by Jean-Marie Calès, député from Haute-Garonne, on the punishment of Louis XVI. 12 députés and 4 substitutes Jean-Baptiste Mailhe, 1° yes, 2° no, 3° death with the amendment in my name, 4° yes. Jean-François-Bertrand Delmas, 1° yes, 2° no, 3° death, 4° no. fr:Joseph-Étienne Projean, 1° yes, 2° no, 3° death, 4° no.
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. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died in 1765.
The court of Louis XVI is stripped to a faded, festering husk of itself in “The Flood,” a stark study of the king’s last days in which the luxurious trappings of French monarchy disappear ...
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.
In the second day of witness testimony at Rebecca Grossman's trial, witnesses say they saw boys killed. No single witness saw both children struck. Memories of mayhem, graphic images in trial of ...
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- President Donald Trump is not reluctant to accuse people of treason.On Sunday, Trump targeted Representative Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee ...