19 Facts About National Convention

The other major innovation was to decree that deputies to that National Convention should be elected by all Frenchmen twenty-one years old or more, domiciled for a year and living by the product of their labor.

The National Convention was, therefore, the first French assembly elected by a suffrage without distinctions of class.

Sometimes in exceptional circumstances, the National Convention declared itself in permanent session and sat for several days without interruption.

For both legislative and administrative the National Convention used committees, with powers more or less widely extended and regulated by successive laws.

Since the king's trial, the sans-culottes had been constantly assailing the "appealers", quickly came to desire their expulsion from the National Convention and demanded the establishing a Revolutionary Tribunal to deal with supposed aristocratic plots.

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In reply, Maximin Isnard, who was presiding over the National Convention, launched into a diatribe reminiscent of the Brunswick Manifesto: "If any attack made on the persons of the representatives of the nation, then I declare to you in the name of the whole country that Paris would be destroyed".

The National Convention rapidly approved the new constitution in the hope to clear itself of the charge of dictatorship and calm the anxieties of the departments.

Chief aim of the Constitution was to ensure the major role of the deputies in the National Convention, which was seen as being the essential basis for political democracy.

The royalist insurrection in the Vendee had already led the National Convention to take a long step in the direction of the Terror: that is to say, the dictatorship of central power and the suppression of liberties.

Many things set the twelve committee members at loggerheads; Barere was more a man of the National Convention than of the committee and was a link with the Plaine.

The National Convention voted 10 million for relief, on 3 Ventose, Barere presented a new general Maximum, and on the 8th Saint-Just obtained a decree confiscating the property of suspects and distributing it to the needy .

In 1792 the National Convention agreed to delegate 3 commissaries for Saint Domingue.

The National Convention eventually allowed for six representative members for the colony.

When pressured by the Society of the Friends of the Blacks to end the slave trade in the colonies, the National Convention refused on the grounds of slavery being too core to the French economic wealth.

The National Convention had recovered its initiative and would put an end, once and for all, to the dictatorial committees government, which had ousted it from power.

Formally, the National Convention had put the end to the maximum as the season had started on the Christmas Eve of 4 Nivose Year III .

Reliable battalions of National Convention Guard were called and demonstrators, lacking arms and leaders, were forced to withdraw.

The National Convention wanted to define rights and simultaneously reject both the privilege of the old order and social leveling.

On 4 Brumaire Year IV, just before breaking up, the National Convention voted a general amnesty for "deeds exclusively connected with the Revolution".