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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 .
Highwayman Nicolas Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine in France, in what becomes the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Paris. La Marseillaise , the French national anthem , is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg .
August 21: First summary judgement by the Revolutionary Tribunal and execution by the guillotine of a royalist, Louis Collenot d'Angremont . August 22: The Paris Commune orders that persons henceforth be addressed as Citoyen and Citoyenne ("Citizen") rather than Monsieur or Madame. August 22: Royalist riots in Brittany, Vendée and Dauphiné.
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.
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The next day about half of the Paris Commune (70 members) were sent to the guillotine; [49] Fouquier did not sign the document. On the following day, twelve members of the Conseil Général de la Commune were sent to the guillotine. The Revolutionary Tribunal was suspended and replaced by a temporary commission.
Proposing a painless method for executions, inspiring the guillotine Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ( French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃] ; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician , politician , and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France , as a less painful method of execution than ...
The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1789 and 1821. A guillotine (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ə t iː n / GHIL-ə-teen / ˌ ɡ ɪ l ə ˈ t iː n / GHIL-ə-TEEN / ˈ ɡ i j ə t i n / GHEE-yə-teen) [1] is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled ...