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.

Year I began on September 22, 1792, ... France’s National Convention turned against Maximilian Robespierre and his extremist left-wing Jacobin faction. He was executed the next day.

Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here. On this day in 1792, the French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy. President Biden and Donald Trump are both playing up ...

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 French national anthem, La Marseillaise, was penned by army engineer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle during the French revolutionary wars in 1792.

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