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Citizen Capet

On December 11, 1792, King Louis XVI of France was put on trial for treason by the National Convention of the new, revolutionary, République française. His name had been de-​sacralized to Citizen Louis Capet, and he was found guilty and then executed in January of the next year … by decapitation.

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