1792 French National Convention election
Legislative elections were held in France at the end of August and in September 1792 to elect deputies to the National Convention. Primary elections to elect members of electoral colleges were held in August, with the electoral colleges subsequently voting from 2 to 19 September. The elections established the nation's first government without the monarch, Louis XVI. On 20 September the Convention gathered for the first time.
Image: Portrait Lazare Carnot
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Image: François Bonneville Portrait de Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754 1793), journaliste et conventionnel P2608 Musée Carnavalet
The National Convention was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly. Created after the great insurrection of 10 August 1792, it was the first French government organized as a republic, abandoning the monarchy altogether. The Convention sat as a single-chamber assembly from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795.
National Convention
The trial of Louis XVI
Fall of the Girondins
Constitution du Peuple Française du 6 Messidor l'an I (24 June 1793)