National Convention | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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National Convention


00:01:39 1 Elections
00:04:35 2 Girondin Convention
00:06:02 2.1 The Girondins and the Montagnards
00:07:36 2.2 The Plain
00:08:12 2.3 Trial and execution of the King
00:10:38 2.4 The Crisis and Fall of the Girondins
00:14:19 3 Montagnard Convention
00:14:57 3.1 Constitution of 1793
00:17:45 3.2 Federalist revolt, war and counter-revolution
00:20:29 3.3 Revolutionary government
00:25:51 3.3.1 The economy
00:28:15 3.3.2 The Army of the Year II
00:30:03 3.4 Fall of the factions
00:34:23 3.5 The Terror
00:36:42 3.6 Slavery
00:40:07 3.7 Thermidor
00:43:27 4 Thermidorian Convention
00:43:53 4.1 Thermidorian Reaction
00:47:51 4.2 Crushing of the popular movement
00:51:11 4.3 Constitution of the Year III
00:54:04 4.4 Vendemiaire
00:56:18 5 Legacy
00:57:26 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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The National Convention (French: Convention nationale) was the first government of 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 (4 Brumaire IV under the Convention's adopted calendar).
The Convention came about when the Legislative Assembly, which had found it impossible to work with the king, decreed the provisional suspension of King Louis XVI and the convocation of a National Convention to draw up a new constitution with no monarchy.  The other major innovation was to decree that deputies to that Convention should be elected by all Frenchmen twenty-five years old or more, domiciled for a year and living by the product of their labor. The National Convention was, therefore, the first French assembly elected by a suffrage without distinctions of class.
Although the Convention lasted until 1795, power was effectively stripped from the elected deputies and concentrated in the small Committee of Public Safety from April 1793.  The eight months from the fall of 1793 to the spring of 1794, when Maximilien Robespierre and his allies dominated the Committee of Public Safety, represent the most radical and bloodiest phase of the French Revolution, known as the Reign of Terror.  After the fall of Robespierre, the Convention lasted for another year until a new constitution was written, ushering in the French Directory.