National Convention

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Fenwick
EF 's husband, John Fenwick , visited Paris with secret overtures from English radicals to the National Convention .
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
8
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
MW worked at a paper for the Education Committee of the French Convention .
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
174

Timeline

11 August 1792: The French Legislative Assembly voted to...

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11 August 1792

The French Legislative Assembly voted to establish a National Convention elected by universal manhood suffrage.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xii

21-22 September 1792: The French National Convention proclaimed...

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21-22 September 1792

The French National Convention proclaimed that the monarchy was abolished and that France was now a Republic.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xii
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
271
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
196

11 December 1792: Louis XVI went on trial before the National...

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11 December 1792

Louis XVI went on trial before the National Convention in Paris.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
158
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
283

15 December 1792: The French National Convention approved instituting...

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15 December 1792

The French National Convention approved instituting revolutionary policies in all occupied territories.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xii

21 January 1793: Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in Paris...

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21 January 1793

Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in Paris after trial by the French National Convention .
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiii
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
170
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
285
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Routledge and K. Paul, 1962.
272

April 1793: The Committee of Public Safety was set up...

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April 1793

The Committee of Public Safety was set up in Paris to guide the National Convention .
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
185
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
197
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
53

23 August 1793: The French National Convention ordered a...

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23 August 1793

The French National Convention ordered a general mobilization, a levée en masse, of the male population.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiii

26 August 1793: The Revolutionary Republican Women read a...

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26 August 1793

The Revolutionary Republican Women read a petition to the French National Convention .
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
371

5 September 1793: The Reign of Terror began in earnest in Paris...

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5 September 1793

The Reign of Terror began in earnest in Paris with Billaud-Varenne declaring in the National Convention that terror would be the order of the day.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
145-6
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
333-5
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
185-6
Connelly, Owen, editor. Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815. Greenwood Press, 1985.
3-4

30 October 1793: The French National Convention prohibited...

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30 October 1793

The French National Convention prohibited women's clubs and societies.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
160
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
198

4 February 1794: Slavery was abolished throughout France and...

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4 February 1794

Slavery was abolished throughout France and its colonies. From this year until 1804 (two years after Napoleon re-instituted slavery under French jurisdiction), the struggle for abolition virtually lapsed in England.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
x
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
86
Popkin, Jeremy D. “Race, Slavery, and the French and Haitian Revolutions”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 113-22.
115, 117
Edwards, Brent Hayes. “Inside the Barrel”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 17, 10 Sept. 2009, pp. 23-4.
23

21 February 1795: The French National Convention decreed the...

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21 February 1795

The French National Convention decreed the separation of Church and State.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
xiv

24 May 1795: Four days after banning women from its public...

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24 May 1795

Four days after banning women from its public galleries, the French National Convention prohibited them from attending any political meeting or gathering in groups in the street.
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
372

26 October 1795: The French National Convention was closed...

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26 October 1795

The French National Convention was closed down.
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
474

6 September 1839: The National Convention of Chartists was...

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6 September 1839

The National Convention of Chartists was dissolved.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
40
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
25

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