The legal background of many of the deputies made it difficult for a great number of them to accept an execution without due process of some sort, and it was voted that the deposed monarch should be tried before the National Convention, the organ that housed the representatives of the sovereign people.
On 11 December, among crowded and silent streets, the deposed king was brought from the Temple to stand before the Convention and hear his indictment, an accusation of High Treason and Crimes against the State. On 15 January , the Convention, composed of deputies, voted out the verdict, which was a foregone conclusion — voted guilty, and none voted for acquittal.
The next day, a voting roll-call was carried out in order to decide upon the fate of the king, and the result was, for such a dramatic decision, uncomfortably close. The French Revolution minutes, Louis and Antoinette Morrow, The family was established as the hereditary lords of Bourbon and vassals of the Capetian dynasty that established the French monarchy in the late tenth century.
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These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. The fate of the king was eventually concluded on January 17th. It was the Jacobins who won the day, gaining the support of the Plain and defeating the motion for an appel au peupleby vo Louis was granted a final visit from Marie Antoinetteand his children on the evening of January 20th, however, his other requests were refused.
On January 21st, the former Louis XVI, the last absolutist king of France, awoke before dawn and received mass from a non-juring priest. He boarded a carriage and was taken on a circuitous route through Paris, through streets lined with soldiers and sans-culottes.
A Royalist plot to rescue the king came to nothing. The National Convention responded by declaring war on England on February 1st. The Russian empress Catherine the Great also broke off diplomatic relations with France, while the rulers of Austria and Prussia ordered a significant escalation in military action against revolutionary France.
In the United States, a nation which had won its independence with the support of the dead king, the reaction was more restrained.
Americans mourned the death of Louis the man — but they did not mourn the death of his monarc Louis was then tried by the National Convention self-instituted as a tribunal for the occasion , found guilty of high treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January , as a desacralized French citizen under the name of Citizen Louis Capet , in reference to Hugh Capet , the founder of the Capetian dynasty — which the revolutionaries interpreted as Louis 's surname.
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About 12,, search results. On January 21st Louis Capet, as he was by then officially known, was taken to the guillotine and decapitated before thousands of his former subjects.
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