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The
National Convention
was an assembly, meeting in
France
from September 21st, 1792 until October 26, 1795. This was the third assembly of the
French Revolution
. It came after the
Legislative Assembly
and founded the
First Republic
.
The first act of the National Convention was to get rid of the
monarchy
.
[1]
The Legislative Assembly had decided that after
Louis XVI
was no longer king, a new government would need to create a French
constitution
. It was decided that all French men over the age of twenty-five would be able to vote, despite class. The winners of this
election
formed the National Convention. Men on the National Convention would be on the National Convention for a year, followed by another election.
The National convention became known as the most
radical
part of the French Revolution. It took land away from the
Nobility
and sold it to
peasants
.
[2]
In the
Reign of Terror
it sent thousands of people to the
guillotine
for
execution
.
[2]
in 1793 they voted to execute
Louis XVI
and his wife
Marie Antoinette
.
[3]
- ↑
James Maxwell Anderson,
Daily Life During the French Revolution
(Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007), p. 16
- ↑
2.0
2.1
Christine Sowder; Bill Williams,
The French Revolution
(Culver City, CA: Social Studies School Service, 2007), p. 530
- ↑
Paul R. Hanson,
Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution
(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004), pp. xvii?xviii