![]() ![]() Austria and Prussia demanded the restitution of the king, threatening retaliation against the French population if they resisted. In September 1792 a Constitutional Convention met and abolished the monarchy, declaring a republic. Without government sanction the Paris Commune murdered some 1350 prisoners. ![]() But the new Assembly degenerated into warring factions struggling for primacy and was unable to govern. ![]() In the early phases of the Revolution the people marched on the Bastille, abolished the nobility, and forced the king to accept a constitutional monarchy. The Revolution was a brutal, bloody affair, with the king and perhaps 50,000 other French citizens being executed by the newly invented guillotine (a triumph of Enlightenment science). In 1789, close on the heels of the American Revolution, the French peasants and middle class revolted against the nobility and the king. ![]()
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