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’s ...

Accused of treason, he was stripped of his title and imprisoned. In September 1792 a new National Convention declared France a republic and abolished the monarchy. On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI ...

Year I began on September 22, 1792, the date of the First Republic ... On 9 Thermidor II (or July 27, 1795), France’s National Convention turned against Maximilian Robespierre and his extremist ...

1792: __It's 1 Vendémiaire of An I in ... year of the First Republic of France. It's the day the National Convention proclaimed France a republic, but no one would know about the new system ...

Les Marseillais was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de ... Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Rhine Army"). The French National Convention adopted it as the country's national anthem ...

On 20th September 1792 at Valmy ... they might have stayed and won. The French success was transformative. The next day, back in Paris, the National Convention abolished the monarchy and declared ...

The papers include notes for the speech delivered to the French national convention in which he denied claims he was tyrannical, on the eve of his arrest. He was executed the following day on July ...

On Sept. 21, 1792, the French National Convention abolished the monarchy. In 1866 novelist H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, England. In 1938 a hurricane swept over parts of New York, New Jersey and ...