National Convention
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The National Convention was the constituent assembly of the Kingdom of France for one day and of the French First Republic for its first three years during the French Revolution, following the two-yea
Extrait du procès verbal de la convention nationale du vongt quatrième jour de Thermidor l'an deuxième de la République, Paris Musées 20230910202229
The trial of Louis XVI
La Marseillaise by François Rude
Autel de la Convention nationale or Autel républicain by François-Léon Sicard (1913), Panthéon, Paris
The Mountain
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The Mountain was a political group during the French Revolution. Its members, called the Montagnards, sat on the highest benches in the National Convention. The term, first used during a session of th
National Convention
…the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. The National Convention was made up of three major factions: The Montagnards (the Mountain), the Marais (the Plain) and the Girondins, also called Brissotins. Historians are divided on the makeup of the Convention, but the current consensus…
The arrest of Maximilien Robespierre and his allies showing at the centre of the image gendarme Merda firing at Robespierre (colour engraving by Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert after the painting by Fulchran-Jean Harriet, Carnavalet Museum)
Pro-Montagnard art