France abolished its monarchy
On this day · 21 September 1792
On its very first sitting, the new National Convention swept away a thousand years of kingship with a single unanimous decree.
On September 21, 1792, at the opening session of France’s newly elected National Convention, the deputies decreed that royalty was abolished in France. The vote was unanimous, carried amid applause.
The monarchy had been crumbling for months. After the storming of the Tuileries that August, King Louis XVI had been suspended and imprisoned, and the old Legislative Assembly gave way to a Convention elected to redraw the nation’s government. Its first substantive act was to end kingship outright.
“Royalty is abolished in France,” the decree read — the entire monarchy dispatched in a single line.
The republic itself was proclaimed the following day, September 22, and the Convention later backdated its acts to “Year I” of the new order. The French First Republic would soon put the deposed king on trial; Louis XVI was executed in January 1793, and the revolution accelerated toward the Terror.
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