On this day in the Place de la Révolution (today’s Place de la Concorde), King Louis XVI of France, was beheaded by the guillotine having been found guilty of conspiracy and attacks upon public safety. The French Revolution, which had started in 1789 with the Estates General and the storming of the Bastille, had led to the abolition of the monarchy and the birth of the French Republic. The new French government was undecided regarding the fate of Louis, but in the end it was the more radical Robespierre who swung the vote in favour of the death penalty with his lapidary words, “Louis must die so that the nation may live.”
Read Bob Lynn’s short story “The Last Supper of Reason”
about the French Revolution HERE
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The article is right, but I’m quite sure that Robespierre said “Louis doit mourir pour que la patrie vive.” and not “Louis must die so that the nation may live.” As you know, guys and gals, he was french and couldn’t speak English.
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