On Sept. 21, 1792, the French National Convention voted to end the monarchy.In 1866 science fiction novelist H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, England.In 1937 “The Hobbit,” the classic book by J ...

In September 1792 a new National Convention declared France a republic and abolished the monarchy. On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was marched to the guillotine.

It's the day the National Convention proclaimed France a republic, but no one would know about the new system of marking time for another year, when the calendar was imposed retroactively.

FRANCE take on Germany as they begin their quest to reclaim ... Les Marseillais was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in ... The French National Convention adopted it as the ...

The Brunswick Manifesto and the Radicalization of the French Revolution’ (French History 25/2, 2011) Charles J. Esdaile, The Wars of the French Revolution, 1792-1801 (Routledge, 2018) ...

On Sept. 21, 1792, the French National Convention abolished the monarchy. In 1897 the New York Sun published an editorial in which Francis P. Church answered 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon&#821… ...