December 3, 1792: King Louis XVI’s Trial
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🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:33.6 | Today is Thursday, December 3, 2020. |
| 0:38.3 | On this day in 1792, King Louis XVI of France was ordered to stand trial for high crimes against France. |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome to today in true Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast. |
| 0:59.9 | Today we're covering the resolution by the French National Convention to put King Louis |
| 1:05.7 | the 16th on trial. After detaining him in August of 1792, a newly formed legislative committee, known as the National Convention, debated the grounds on which they could try the deposed monarch. In an unprecedented move, the group eventually decided it would serve as the court and jury to hear the king's crimes. |
| 1:34.3 | The road to his hearing before the National Convention had been long for King Louis XVI. |
| 1:41.3 | Prior to being detained, he'd served as France's monarch for 18 years. But now he'd |
| 1:47.6 | been stripped of his noble titles. He was simply known as Citizen Louis Capet. After four long |
| 1:57.5 | months spent jailed with his family in Paris. |
| 2:06.8 | Citizen Capet was both eager and terrified for any sort of update about his freedom. |
| 2:12.6 | As the men of the convention debated amongst themselves, whether it was legal to try Louis, |
| 2:15.4 | another topic also circulated. |
| 2:21.0 | Should the former king be executed? A guilty verdict, if they were to proceed, would likely make this question unavoidable. While the monarchy had been dissolved in |
| 2:27.4 | August and the French state had declared itself a republic in September, the legislature still leaned |
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