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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.
"Louis the Last" being cross-examined by the convention. 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.
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.
Louis XVI was guillotined in 1793. By 1800, the First Republic, at war with much of Europe, had adopted a weak form of government that was overthrown by General Napoleon Bonaparte, who later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French. When Austrian, British, Prussian, and Russian armies invaded France in 1814, Napoleon was forced to abdicate.
Charles-Henri Sanson, full title Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ɑ̃ʁi sɑ̃sɔ̃]; 15 February 1739 – 4 July 1806), was the royal executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI, as well as high executioner of the First French Republic.
The Champ de Mars massacre took place on 17 July 1791 in Paris at the Champ de Mars against a crowd of republican protesters amid the French Revolution.Two days before, the National Constituent Assembly issued a decree that King Louis XVI would retain his throne under a constitutional monarchy.
Louis XVI of France. 21 January – King Louis XVI of France (executed) (born 1754) [6] 4 March – Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, admiral (born 1725) 13 July – Jean-Paul Marat, French Revolutionary leader (assassinated) (born 1743 in Prussia) 17 July – Charlotte Corday, assassin of Jean-Paul Marat (executed) (born 1768)