napoleon bonaparte abolished the monarchy and declared france a republic.
napoleon bonaparte abolished the monarchy and declared france a republic.
who abolished the monarchy and declared france a republic?
napoleon bonaparte
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in april 1792, austria declared war on france, and in june 1792, the duke of brunswick, commander of the army of the king of prussia, threatened to destroy paris unless the parisians accepted the authority of their king. in response to the threat from the prussians, on 10 august the leaders of the sans-culottes deposed the paris city government and established their own government, the insurrectionary commune, in the hôtel-de-ville. upon learning that a mob of sans-culottes was approaching the tuileries palace, the royal family took refuge at the nearby assembly. in the attack of the tuileries palace, the mob killed the last defenders of the king, his swiss guards, then ransacked the palace. threatened by the sans-culottes, the assembly "suspended" the power of the king and, on 11 august, declared that france would be governed by a national convention. on 13 august, louis xvi and his family were imprisoned in the temple fortress. on 21 september, at its first meeting, the convention abolished the monarchy, and the next day declared france to be a republic. the convention moved its meeting place to a large hall, a former theatre, the salle des machines within the tuileries palace. the committee of public safety, charged with hunting down the enemies of the revolution, established its headquarters in the pavillon de flore, the south pavilion of the tuileries, while the tribunal, the revolutionary court, set up its courtroom within the old palais de la cité, the medieval royal residence on the île-de-la-cité, the site of today's palais de justice.
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