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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.
June 25: Louis XVI returns to Paris. The Assembly suspends his functions until further notice. July 5: Emperor Leopold II issues the Padua Circular calling on the royal houses of Europe to come to the aid of Louis XVI, his brother-in-law. July 9: The Assembly decrees that émigrés must return to France within two months, or forfeit their property.
Louis XVI visits Cherbourg to see the construction site of the dam and the arsenal. 1789: 14 July: The French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille. 1793: 21 January: Former King of France Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. The National Convention had taken power a few months earlier. 7 June
"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.
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. Louis XVI was the husband of Marie Antoinette.
New powers entered the First Coalition days after the execution of King Louis XVI on 21 January. Spain and Portugal were among these. Then, on 1 February France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands.
[19] [20] Danton was also accused by later French historians Adolphe Thiers, Alphonse de Lamartine, Jules Michelet, Louis Blanc and Edgar Quinet of doing nothing to stop them. [21] According to modern historian Georges Lefebvre , the "collective mentality is a sufficient explanation for the killing". [ 22 ]
Louis XVI's order to surrender. At that moment the battalions of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine arrived, and the reinforced insurgents pushed the Swiss back into the palace. Louis, hearing from the manége the sound of firing, wrote on a scrap of paper: "The King orders the Swiss to lay down their arms at once, and to retire to their barracks." To ...