Michel Lepeletier
Birth: 1760
Death: 1793
Occupation: Politician
A deputy in the National Convention who was part of the majority there who had voted to execute the deposed king Louis XVI. Lepeletier was transformed into a martyr of the Revolution after his assassination by a royalist sympathiser, Philippe-Nicolas-Marie de Pâris, on 20 January 1793 - the eve of Louis being sent to the guillotine.
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1793
21 January: The Execution of Louis XVI
The deposed king's trial before the nation's elected representatives in the National Convention began on 11 December 1792. A guilty verdict was never...
