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French Constitution of 1793
1793Jun, 24

The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.

The Constitution of 1793 (French: Acte constitutionnel du 24 juin 1793), also known as the Constitution of the Year I or the Montagnard Constitution, was the second constitution ratified for use during the French Revolution under the First Republic. Designed by the Montagnards, principally Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Saint-Just, it was intended to replace the constitutional monarchy of 1791 and the Girondin constitutional project. With sweeping plans for democratization and wealth redistribution, the new document promised a significant departure from the relatively moderate goals of the Revolution in previous years.

However, the Constitution's radical provisions were never implemented. The government placed a moratorium upon it, ostensibly because of the need to employ emergency war powers during the French Revolutionary War. Those same emergency powers would permit the Committee of Public Safety to conduct the Reign of Terror, and when that long period of violent political combat was over, the constitution was invalidated by its association with the defeated Robespierre. In the Thermidorian Reaction, it was discarded in favor of a more conservative document, the Constitution of 1795.


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  • 21Jan

    Louis XVI of France

    After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
  • 23May

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  • 23Jul

    Mainz

    Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
  • 27Aug

    Siege of Toulon

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  • 5Sep

    French National Convention

    French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.

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