On Sept. 21, 1792, the French National Convention voted to end the monarchy. In 1866 science fiction novelist H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, England. In 1937 “The Hobbit,” the classic book by ...

Accused of treason, he was stripped of his title and imprisoned. In September 1792 a new National Convention declared France a republic and abolished the monarchy. On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI ...

1792: __It's 1 Vendémiaire of An I in ... year of the First Republic of France. It's the day the National Convention proclaimed France a republic, but no one would know about the new system ...

Year I began on September 22, 1792, the date of the First Republic ... On 9 Thermidor II (or July 27, 1795), France’s National Convention turned against Maximilian Robespierre and his extremist ...

Les Marseillais was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de ... Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Rhine Army"). The French National Convention adopted it as the country's national anthem ...

The French national anthem, La Marseillaise, was penned by army engineer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle during the French revolutionary wars in 1792. It was originally written as a marching song ...

On Sept. 21, 1792, the French National Convention abolished the monarchy. In 1897 the New York Sun published an editorial in which Francis P. Church answered 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon’s ...

Les Marseillais was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de ... Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Rhine Army"). The French National Convention adopted it as the country's national anthem ...