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Chapter 73 The Death of the King
When the royalists were about to storm the king's tower, the Ottoman spies began to retreat.

The spies belonging to the Jacobin faction quickly fought against the royalists. Due to their numerical superiority, the royalists who had rushed outside Louis XVI's room were forced to retreat again.

Seeing the men in black gradually leaving, Louis XVI slipped to the ground weakly, knowing that he would have no more hope.

Two days later, at the National Constituent Assembly, Roland agreed to Robespierre's conditions, and the Girondists and Jacobins once again stood in the same room.

At this time Robespierre was speaking.

"Dear MPs, it's a pleasure to see you again.

Presumably the recent campaign has made you once again see the power of the people. "

Robespierre's voice turned cold at this time.

"But there are always people who don't agree with the power of the people, but superstitiously believe in the authority of the monarch.

In one night, two groups of men, one of whom could be said to be royalists, but whose staff was the other spies with a strong accent from the Gironde province? I don't know. "

When they heard "Gironde", some people on the field couldn't help but cast their eyes on Roland who was sitting at the top.

But Roland didn't intend to answer, this will only get darker and darker.

He knocked on the table and signaled many participants to start today's topic - the trial of Louis XVI.

Poland has attracted the attention of Austria and Prussia, and the Duke of Biron has been defeated by the army sent by Napoleon.

These two events gave the National Constituent Assembly enough confidence that they would formally announce the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic.

On February 1790, 24, Louis XVI was summoned to the National Convention to face his accusers, who charged him with treason and crimes against the state.

But he still got a strong defense. There is no doubt that Robespierre took this opportunity to mock Roland again, although Roland did not do it this time.

However, when the judgment was opened, everything that happened on the scene was still expected.

The accused Louis XVI stood in the middle of the courtroom, pale and modestly dressed.

Counting will begin shortly.

Jean-Paul Marat voted to convict Louis-Auguste de Bourbon.

Maximilian Robespierre, by one vote, convicted Louis Auguste de Bourbon.

Danton voted to convict Louis Auguste de Bourbon.

Roland voted to convict Louis Auguste de Bourbon.

One vote of Napoleon Bonaparte, condemning Louis Auguste de Bourbon.

Philippe, by an equal vote, condemned Louis Auguste de Bourbon.

When the counting staff read this, the dreary trial court finally came alive.

People started talking.

"This is the former Duke of Orleans."

"Where is the king's distant uncle?"

"He voted too."

"This man is nothing but a villain."

Philip-Equality, who was sitting on the chair, could hear all this clearly, but he didn't care, at least he survived and became a member of the Revolutionary Party, that's enough, isn't it.

As for Louis XVI, after hearing the other party's name, he was not moved at all.

The nobles who were still in Paris at this time, Louis XVI could see clearly that they would not have any hope at all.

After the counting of the votes, 693 delegates voted that the king was guilty and none found him innocent, with 23 abstentions.

The next day, the National Convention met again to decide how to deal with the king.This time the vote was more even, but equally irrefutable: 288 votes for the king's imprisonment or exile, 361 for his immediate execution.

A last-minute motion for probation was also denied.

The king's fate was sealed.

He had already been mentally prepared and accepted the news calmly.

This morning, when Louis XVI was sleeping soundly, someone woke him up and informed him that he would be guillotined the next day.

That night, he said goodbye to his family and had dinner alone.

The next morning, February 26th, Louis XVI awoke at 5 o'clock to hear mass, and the Irish-born priest and close friend Henry Essex Edgeworth (I feel that this person is similar to the British Earl of Essex, but not found) took communion in hand.

It was also Edgeworth who accompanied Louis XVI to the guillotine at the Revolution Square.

The guillotine here is named after a doctor named Joseph-Agnace Guillordin.

Guillordin, a good-natured man, proposed that all prisoners on death row should have the right to beheaded (a form of execution previously reserved only for nobles), and that the execution should be as quick and painless as possible.

The king stared at the tall guillotine. Although he was pale, he showed no fear.

Accompanied by Edgeworth, he walked resolutely up the steps of the scaffold, then took off his coat, shirt, and collar.

He motioned to the drummers to silence them for a moment, and then said in a firm and steady voice: "I forgive all who have put me to death, and I pray to God that the blood you are about to shed is not at the behest of France.

As he lay prone on the scaffold, Edgeworth yelled, "Go to heaven, son of St. Louis!"

Then, the blade smashed down.

It was a matter of a few seconds, but Louis XVI felt that time had slowed down.

At the moment of death, Louis XVI's heart was like a lake of clear water, with ripples.

He stared at the falling blade silently, his thoughts wandering in the ocean of memories.

Days and nights of the past flashed through his mind: his glory and power as king, the trials and turmoil of his country.

At the last moment, Louis XVI closed his eyes, and he made his breathing slow and deep, as if waiting for a peaceful final chapter.

At the last moment, Louis XVI accepted the judgment of fate quietly and firmly.

He seems to have seen through the cycle of life and death, and sincerely blesses the future of France.

In the next second, the king's head rolled to the ground, and the French monarchy collapsed.

The death of the king is like a heavy hammer of fate, engraving the history of France belonging to the monarch forever in people's memory.

It was the fall of a king, the fall of the royal family, the disintegration of kingship and theocracy.

As the king of France, he once tasted power and glory, but now he returns to the mortal world in flesh and blood.His death conveys the dialectical conflict between wisdom and ignorance, justice and brutality.

Louie's death is not over yet.

Internationally, the death of Louis XVI caused a huge shock.

His departure has almost become the political focus of European countries, and a wave of reform will sweep from France, especially the monarchy countries, which will re-examine themselves in the near future.

At home, the death of Louis XVI sparked violent social unrest and deep divisions.

On the one hand, the revolutionary radicals sang and danced in front of his guillotine, exulting in the victory over the kingship; .

The king's martyrdom aroused the anger and thinking deep in people's hearts.

His death is a symbol of the victory of the revolution and the turmoil of the country, as well as the end of an era and the beginning of a new one.

The era of autocracy is coming to an end, and the era of revolution is coming.

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