The death of Louis XVI marks the beginning of the Terror, the best known, or at least the most sensational, phase of the Revolution. I mean, if you can kill the king, you can kill pretty much anyone, which is what the government did under the leadership of the Committee of Public Safety, motto, we suck at protecting public safety, led by Maximilien Robespierre. The Terror saw the guillotining of 16,000 enemies of the Revolution, including Marie I Never Actually Said Let Them Eat Cake Antoinette, and Maximilien Robespierre himself, who was guillotined in the month of Thermidor in the year 2. Oh right, so while France was broke and fighting like nine wars, the Committee of Public Safety changed the measurements of time because, you know, the traditional measurements are so irrational and religion-y. So they renamed all the months and decided that each day would have 10 hours and each hour 100 minutes. And then after the Terror, the Revolution pulled back a bit and another new constitution was put into place, this one giving a lot more power to wealthy people. At this point, France was still at war with Austria and Britain, wars that France ended up winning largely thanks to a little corporal named Napoleon Bonaparte.