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7 unusual facts about National Convention


Académie de Marine

The Academy was linked to the Académie des sciences by an edict of 1771, but was finally suppressed by the National Convention on 8 August 1793 at the same time as all the other academies.

Causes of the May Revolution

Even more, the National Convention declared that France would give shelter and aid to all populations aiming to become free, and made many plans to disrupt the power of Spain over their overseas colonies.

Eden Agreement

The treaty collapsed in 1793, following claims in the National Convention that the Aliens Act 1793 breached the terms of the treaty and the outbreak of war in early February between Great Britain and France ended any chance of a compromise.

Federalist revolts

The federalist revolts were uprisings which broke out from 2 June to December 1793 in the French provinces, after the 'Days of 31 May and 2 June 1793' during which the Jacobins eliminated the Girondins from the French National Convention.

Représentant en mission

The term is most often assigned to deputies designated by the National Convention for maintaining law and order in the départements and armies, as they had powers to oversee conscription into the army, and were used to monitor local military command.

Théâtre des Tuileries

The theatre later underwent three substantial transformations: the first in 1763, when it was greatly reduced in size for the Paris Opera (to a capacity of 400 to 500 spectators) by the architects Jacques Soufflot and Jacques Gabriel; the second in 1792, when it was transformed into the hall of the National Convention; and the third in 1808, when Napoleon had a new theatre built to the designs of the architects Percier and Fontaine.

Trial of Louis XVI

Beginning with a description of why the charges were invalid (under the terms of the Constitution of 1791 Louis, as king, was immune from prosecution), he attacked the right of National Convention to stand as judge and jury.


Army of the Pyrenees

One of the French Revolutionary armies, the Army of the Pyrenees (Armée des Pyrénées) was created by a decree of the National Convention dated 1 October 1792 and formed out of the right wing of the Armée du Midi.

Charles François Dumouriez

Arresting the four deputy-commissioners of the National Convention who had been sent to inquire into his conduct (Camus, Bancal-des-Issarts, Quinette, and Lamarque) as well as the Minister of War, Pierre Riel de Beurnonville, he handed them over to the enemy, and then attempted to persuade his troops to march on Paris and overthrow the revolutionary government.

Constitution of the Year VIII

This was no longer Robespierre's Republic, which was more radical, or the oligarchic liberal Republic of the Directory, but the autocratic Roman Republic of Caesar Augustus, a Conservative Republic, which reminded the French of stability, order, and peace.

Épône

Hérault de Séchelles (1759–1794), former lord of Épône, representative of Seine-et-Oise in the National Convention, beheaded in 1794, and author of Théorie de l'ambition, codicille politique pratique d’un jeune habitant d’Épône

François Chabot

Re-elected to the National Convention for the département of Loir-et-Cher, he voted for the execution of King Louis XVI, and opposed the proposal to prosecute the authors of the September Massacres, as there were heroes of the Battle of Jemmapes among them.

François Hanriot

On the following morning, 31 May 1793, he was chosen by the Paris Commune to lead the Parisian National Guard to the National Convention and demand the dissolution of the Committee of the Twelve and the arrest of select Girondists.

French Constitution of 1793

Drafted by the Committee of Public Safety which was enlarged with the purpose of producing it, the text was presented to the National Convention on 10 June and subsequently accepted by that body on 24 June 1793.

Jean-Baptiste Mailhe

Re-elected in September 1792 as Member of Parliament for the Haute-Garonne in the National Convention, he sat with La Plaine, remaining close to the Girondists.

Jean-Pierre-André Amar

In 1790, Amar was elected vice-president of the Grenoble directory, and became a deputy to the National Convention for the département of Isère, and joined The Mountain, voting in favor of Louis XVI's execution during his trial.

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet

Viennet was the son of National Convention-member Jacques Joseph Viennet and nephew of the priest Louis Esprit Viennet who, aged 40, was made curate of the église Saint-Merri in Paris and who in the early phase of the French Revolution in 1790 preached a sermon on the civil constitution of the clergy.

Pierre Louis Prieur

Re-elected to the Convention, he was sent to Normandy, where he directed bitter reprisals against the supporters of Federalism.

Pierre-Antoine Antonelle

Shortly after being freed from prison, Antonelle sided with the National Convention during the insurrection of 13 Vendémiaire.

Tamara Millay

She was a candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for Vice President in 2004, but lost to Richard Campagna in balloting at the Party's National Convention.

The Shari Lewis Show

The original tapes of many episodes were wiped and reused by NBC to record coverage of the 1964 Democratic and Republican National Conventions.

Tyrannicide

In the midst of the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre, took power as the President of the National Convention, but after leading the Reign of Terror from 1793 to 1794, he was executed by beheading by the National Convention.


see also

1848 Whig National Convention

The 1848 Whig National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Whig Party.

1908 Democratic National Convention

The 1908 Democratic National Convention was the quadrennial Democratic National Convention, the presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party.

1919 Emergency National Convention

A rather imaginative rendition of the 1919 Emergency National Convention appears in the 1981 Warren Beatty film, Reds.

1952 Democratic National Convention

The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois from July 21 to July 26, 1952, which was the same arena the Republicans had gathered in a few weeks earlier for their national convention.

1994 Progress Party national convention

The 1994 national convention of the Progress Party of Norway was held from 15 April to 17 April at the hotel Bolkesjø Turisthotell in Bolkesjø, Telemark.

Already before the national convention, the entire local party chapter in Osterøy was disestablished, but mainly due to the European Union controversy.

2004 Republican National Convention protest activity

2004 Republican National Convention protest activity includes the broad range of marches, rallies, performances, demonstrations, exhibits, and acts of civil disobedience in New York City to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention and the nomination of President George W. Bush for the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

2016 Democratic National Convention

:In an August 2013 meeting organized by congressman Bob Brady, various Philadelphia business, political, and union leaders discussed the possibility of bidding to host the Democratic National Convention.

Adam Lux

Lux then moved to Mainz with his family, where the Rhenish-German National Convention, the parliament of the Republic of Mainz, founded according to the French example and chaired by Andreas Joseph Hofmann elected him to be a representative.

Alabama Public Service Commission

Commissioner Jim Zeigler, following his single term on the PSC, ran for state supreme court, civil appeals court, state treasurer and state auditor, losing each by narrow margins, thus earning the nickname "Mr. 49%." He made a comeback in 2004 when he surprised the political establishment by defeating long-time Republican National Committeeman and former Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper, Sr. for Statewide Delegate to the Republican National Convention.

Alexander Treadwell

In 2004, Treadwell was the host state chairman of the Republican National Convention that nominated President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for re-election.

American Association of Lutheran Churches

During the June 20–23, 2007 TAALC National Convention, the AALC declared fellowship with the LCMS; and voted to join the International Lutheran Council (ILC).

Ang Kapatiran

Church-based political party Kapatiran, led by founder Nandy Pacheco, on October 1, 2008, launched its campaign for Philippine general election, 2010 at Iloilo City at the national convention of the Philippines' Pontifical Council for the Laity.

Bahá'í Faith in American Samoa and Samoa

In 1974 King Malietoa Tanumafili II attended the national convention and congratulated work on construction of a Bahá'í center and KVZK-2 recorded a series of three 15-minute programs to be broadcast as part of its daily show Talosaga.

Barbara Osborn Kreamer

Elected by the Democrats of the First Congressional District of Maryland, she was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1988 that nominated Michael Dukakis.

Daniel Russell Brown

He was suggested as vice presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention of 1896, having the support of New England, but was not selected.

David Outlaw

In 1844, he was a delegate to the Whig National Convention, and was elected as a Whig to the 30th, 31st, and 32nd U.S. Congress (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853).

Eileen Wu

Eileen has gone on to report on topics such as the Republican National Convention and the death of Pope John Paul II.

François René Mallarmé

For Convention he was appointed a member of the committee for finances, and briefly was appointed to the Committee of Public Safety (27 June 1793 - 10 July 1793) by resolution of the National Convention to present his plan for food procurement, but did not join the committee's sessions.

George Winthrop Fairchild

He was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1919) while elected delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1912 and 1916.

Henry Washington Hilliard

He served as member of the state house of representatives 1836-1838, as member of the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1839, Whig presidential elector in 1840 and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1840.

J. Russell Sprague

He also was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956 and part of Republican National Convention from New York during 1940-1948.

Jane Briggs Hart

She was a founding member of the National Organization for Women, and served as board member and national convention delegate for the Birmingham, Michigan League of Women Voters.

John R. Bourgeois

He was the Fraternity's 2000 recipient of the Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award, presented at its national convention in Dallas, Texas.

John Sebrie Watts

He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864, and took an active part in equipping troops for the Union Army during the Civil War.

John W. Coe

He was for many years an active Republican, but joined the Liberal Republican Party in 1872, and was a delegate to the Liberal Republican National Convention in Cincinnati which nominated Horace Greeley for President.

Josephine Brawley Hughes

At the national convention of suffrage of that year, Susan B. Anthony, a friend of Brawley Hughes, grabbed him and named him the "suffrage knight of Arizona".

Kidder family

Jefferson P. Kidder 1815-1883, delegate to the Vermont Constitutional Convention 1841, Vermont State Senator 1847-1848, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont 1853-1854, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1856, Minnesota State Representative 1863-1864, Justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court 1865-1875 1979-1883, Delegate to Congress from Dakota Territory 1875-1879.

Lisa Caputo

Prior to that, Caputo ran Al Gore’s media operations at the 1992 Democratic National Convention and was the Press Secretary to US Senator Tim Wirth and to US Representative Bob Traxler.

Marc David Alba Lasource

He also served as a member of the Committee of General Security (24 January 1793 - April 1793) and as President of the National Convention (18 April 1793 - 2 May 1793).

Mary Bradford

Mary C.C. Bradford (1856–?), first woman to be elected to a seat in the 1908 Democratic National Convention

National Agents Alliance

Dave Anderson spoke at NAA’s National Convention in Jan. of 2011.

Nepali Congress

May 23, 1957 : Special National Convention held at Biratnagar, B.P. Koirala became the Party President.

Ogaden National Liberation Front

The ONLF is currently led by Chairman Mohammed Omar Osman, who was elected to the post at a 1998 national convention.

Purdue Big Bass Drum

In 1961, the University of Texas and Purdue University chapters of Kappa Kappa Psi, an honorary band fraternity, pledged to bring their drums to the national convention in Wichita, Kansas for a direct comparison; however, only Purdue showed up.

Read My Lips

"Read my lips: no new taxes", a quote from George H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention

Román Macaya

On March 4, 2009 he made public his intentions to become the Citizen's Action Party's official presidential candidate, his candidature being applauded by Ottón Solís, Epsy Campbell Barr (the other precandidates) and deputy José Merino del Río, leader of Broad Front, but was ultimately defeated on May 31, 2009 during the PAC's National Convention.

Ruffin Pleasant

Pleasant was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1916, which renominated Woodrow Wilson for president and Thomas Marshall of Indiana for vice president.

Theodore H. Rowell

Ted was a delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention, where his friend Harold Stassen was the hands-down favorite to receive that year's Republican nomination for president.

United States presidential election, 1916

The 1916 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago between June 7 and 10.

Wade Trophy

State Farm Insurance sponsors the award, and the trophy is presented at the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) National Convention.

Wayne H. Babbitt

He was also a delegate to the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, which nominated Barry Goldwater for the presidency.

Wilmot Proviso

The Barnburners were successfully opposed by their conservative opposition, the Hunkers, in their efforts to send a pro-proviso batch of delegates to the 1848 Democratic National Convention.

Young Communist League, Nepal

At its first national convention in the capital Kathmandu in February 2007, which was inaugurated by the CPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal a.k.a. Prachanda, the YCL formed a 45-member new Central Committee with Ganeshman Pun as its Chairman, Uma Bhujel as its Vice-chairman, Dileep Kumar Prajapati as General Secretary, R. P. Sharma as Secretary and Bhagwat Baduwal as Treasurer.