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    by the Legislative Assembly, operating under the French Constitution of 1791, between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National...
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    was succeeded by the French First Republic. On 3 September 1791, the National Constituent Assembly forced King Louis XVI to accept the French Constitution...
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    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...
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    Louis XVI. Louis made his entrance into the Convention chamber then: "Louis", said Barère de Vieuzac, "the nation accuses you, the National Assembly decreed...
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    Demonstration of 20 June 1792 (category Riots and civil disorder in France)
    persuade King Louis XVI of France to abandon his current policy and adopt a more compliant role in the escalating frenzy of the French Revolution. The demonstrators'...
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    advice, Louis XVI, under the influence of the courtiers of his privy council, resolved to go in state to the Assembly, annul its decrees, command the separation...
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    or by Louis XVI himself. In January 1792, the Legislative Assembly declared that all of the émigrés were traitors to France. Their property and titles...
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    The Legislative Assembly (French: Assemblée législative) was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 1792 during...
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    under arms and able to impose its will on Feuillants and Girondins in the Constitutional Cabinet of Louis XVI and the Legislative Assembly. The Jacobins...
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    The following is a timeline of the French Revolution. Louis XVI in 1777 Étienne Charles de Brienne, minister of finance 1787-88 Jacques Necker, minister...
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    Hérault in the Legislative Assembly and of the National Convention, he generally voted with the majority. Bonnier voted for the execution of Louis XVI. He was...
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    between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new revolutionary Legislative Assembly increased through the spring and summer of 1792 as Louis vetoed radical...
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    the finance minister at the time, Calonne, suggested that Louis XVI call an Assembly of Notables. While the Assembly of Notables had no legislative power...
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  • Grégoire Jagot (category Regicides of Louis XVI)
    sent to Savoy to organize the Mont-Blanc department there, therefore Jagot was not present during the trial of Louis XVI and did not vote. On 13 January...
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    13 June onwards and, on 19 June, the whole of the clergy voted to join the National Assembly.: xvi  A legislative and a political agenda unfolded. There...
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    husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she became queen. As queen, Marie Antoinette became increasingly unpopular among the people; the French libelles...
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  • the "registration" that the Parlement of Paris refused to perform for Louis XVI of France in 1787–1788. When the Estates-General of 1789 formed the National...
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    Louis XVII (born Louis Charles, Duke of Normandy; 27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795) was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette...
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    Marguerite-Élie Guadet (category Members of the Legislative Assembly (France))
    supported the policy of forcing Louis XVI into harmony with the Revolution, and moved (3 May) for the dismissal of the king's non-juring confessor, for the banishment...
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    Claude Basire (category Regicides of Louis XVI)
    politician of the Revolutionary period. He was guillotined. Born in Dijon, he became a deputy for the Côte-d'Or in the Legislative Assembly, he made himself...
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    Maximin Isnard (category Regicides of Louis XVI)
    elected deputy for the département of the Var to the Legislative Assembly, where he joined the Girondists. As the president of the National Convention...
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  • Charles d'Abancourt (category Burials at the Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles)
    statesman, minister to Louis XVI. D'Abancourt was born in Douai, and was the nephew of Charles Alexandre de Calonne. He was Louis XVI's last minister of war...
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    returned the favour by taking Barnave as his chief advisor. At the opening of the Legislative Assembly, Louis XVI delivered a speech written by Barnave and for...
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    forced Louis XVI to order the clergy and the nobility to join the Third Estate in the National Assembly to give the illusion that he controlled the National...
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  • declaration which considered the cause of Louis XVI as their own, demanded his total liberty and the dissolution of the Assembly, and promised an invasion of...
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    in 1824) A report on the papers of the civil list preparatory to the trial of King Louis XVI, printed in Le Procès de Louis XVI (Paris) etc., while other...
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  • supporter of the Montagnard faction, voting along with them for the death sentence in the trial of Louis XVI (executed 21 January 1793), and he demanded...
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    December 1778 – 19 October 1851) was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and their only child to reach adulthood....
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    Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet (category Regicides of Louis XVI)
    King Louis XVI, provided a Rapport sur les crimes imputés à Louis Capet (20 December 1792) – a report of the king's alleged crimes – and voted for the king's...
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    Marc David Alba Lasource (category Executed regicides of Louis XVI)
    deputy for Tarn, and he developed ties with the Girondist faction. He nevertheless voted for the death sentence in the trial of Louis XVI. He was sent on...
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