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This post is part of a series about genealogy in France. You can read the complete series HERE.

• From September 1792 through to April 1793, Belgium, Rhineland, Savoy, and the County of Nice were occupied by French armies.
• The National Convention was divided into
  • Girondins who wanted to organise a bourgeois (middle class) republic across France and for it to spread across Europe.
  • Montagnards (Mountain men) who wanted to give a greater share of political and economical power to the lower classes.
  • Despite the efforts of the Girondins, Louis XVI was judged and condemned to death for treason and executed on 21 January 1793, with Marie-Antoinette guillotined in the September of the same year.