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=Notes=

Overthrowing the Monarchy

 * August 10, 1792, 20,000 men and women stormed the Tuileries Palace to dethrone King Louis XVI.
 * The Storming of Tuileries Palace ended the monarchy and place King Louis and his family in prison and out of office.
 * A new assembly was brought up called the Convention.
 * The Conventions first action dethroned King Louis and declared France a Republic (21 Sept. 1792).
 * Two months after this they put King Louis on trail and sentenced him to death, which he was beheaded on 21 January 1793.

San Culottes

 * San Culottes was the name for people who overthrew the King.
 * They were the working people of Paris and shared many ideas and acted the same way.
 * San Culottes hated Nobles and refused to act the same way as they did.
 * Therefore they wore trousers and addressed each other as "comrade" or "citizen", the opposite of what nobles would do.