http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:41:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-2200 ExecutedToday.com » 1793: Olympe de Gouges, a head of her time Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:01:38 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-2200 [...] Like some of her Girondist associates, she risked the Paris mob’s wrath by openly opposing Louis XVI’s execution — right in character, Olympe was down on the whole idea of the death [...] [...] Like some of her Girondist associates, she risked the Paris mob’s wrath by openly opposing Louis XVI’s execution — right in character, Olympe was down on the whole idea of the death [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1813 ExecutedToday.com » 1793: Marie Antoinette Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:28:01 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1813 [...] — the “widow Capet,” as she was styled in egalite, after the guillotine shortened her husband — had the bad luck to personify the decadence of the ancien regime under the hegemony of the [...] [...] — the “widow Capet,” as she was styled in egalite, after the guillotine shortened her husband — had the bad luck to personify the decadence of the ancien regime under the hegemony of the [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1672 ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: Counterrevolution Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:52:43 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1672 [...] early 19th century, the crowned heads of Europe weren’t just sitting around — and with good reason. Regimes don’t get to be ancien without knowing how to deal with [...] [...] early 19th century, the crowned heads of Europe weren’t just sitting around — and with good reason. Regimes don’t get to be ancien without knowing how to deal with [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1650 ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Maximilien Robespierre, Saint-Just and the Jacobin leadership Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:36:45 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1650 [...] future tyrant’s anti-death penalty case for executing the deposed Louis XVI, flowing directly from those principles, makes interesting reading and is excerpted at length (all [...] [...] future tyrant’s anti-death penalty case for executing the deposed Louis XVI, flowing directly from those principles, makes interesting reading and is excerpted at length (all [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1310 ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Georges Danton and his followers Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:05:18 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1310 [...] famously ugly revolutionary had been the moving spirit overthrowing the monarchy of Louis XVI in 1792; as the firmest public minister holding up against the ensuing military collapse he was for [...] [...] famously ugly revolutionary had been the moving spirit overthrowing the monarchy of Louis XVI in 1792; as the firmest public minister holding up against the ensuing military collapse he was for [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1296 ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Not Thomas Paine Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:15:55 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1296 [...] Paine served in France’s National Convention, one of the highest-profile and least-impeachable members of that body as well as one of only two foreigners. These distinctions offered him some safety in the Revolution’s internecine tempests — some, but not quite enough. He drew the ire of the Montagnards by opposing the execution of Louis XVI. [...] [...] Paine served in France’s National Convention, one of the highest-profile and least-impeachable members of that body as well as one of only two foreigners. These distinctions offered him some safety in the Revolution’s internecine tempests — some, but not quite enough. He drew the ire of the Montagnards by opposing the execution of Louis XVI. [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1285 ExecutedToday.com » Themed Set: Thermidor Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:20:37 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-1285 [...] been erected and from that traditional birthdate of the Revolution were eclipsed successively the Bourbon monarchy, the Constitutionalist Assembly, the Girondin liberals, Marat, Danton … culminating in the [...] [...] been erected and from that traditional birthdate of the Revolution were eclipsed successively the Bourbon monarchy, the Constitutionalist Assembly, the Girondin liberals, Marat, Danton … culminating in the [...]

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