Kingdom of France (1791–92)
Kingdom of France Royaume de France (French) | |||||||||
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| 1791–1792 | |||||||||
| Motto: La Nation, la Loi, le Roi "The Nation, the Law, the King" | |||||||||
| Anthem: Marche Henri IV (1590–1830) "March of Henry IV" | |||||||||
Kingdom of France in September 1791 – September 1792 | |||||||||
| Capital | Paris | ||||||||
| Common languages | French | ||||||||
| Religion | Constitutional[1] | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | French | ||||||||
| Government | Parliamentary constitutional monarchy | ||||||||
• King | Louis XVI | ||||||||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Flight to Varennes | 20–21 June 1791 | ||||||||
• Constitution adopted | 3 September 1791 | ||||||||
• Storming of the Tuileries | 10 August 1792 | ||||||||
• Republic proclaimed | 21 September 1792 | ||||||||
| Currency | Assignat | ||||||||
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Constitutional Cabinet of Louis XVI | |
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Cabinet of Kingdom of France | |
| Date formed | 3 September 1791 |
| Date dissolved | 21 September 1792 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | King Louis XVI |
| No. of ministers | 5 |
| Ministers removed | 19 |
| Total no. of members | 24 |
| Member party | Independents, Feuillants, Moderate Jacobins (1792) |
| Status in legislature | Legislative Assembly |
| Opposition party | Jacobins |
| Opposition leader | Georges Couthon, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud and others |
| History | |
| Election | 1791 |
| Legislature term | 6 September 1791 – 2 September 1792 |
| Successor | Government of the National Convention |
The Kingdom of France (the remnant of the preceding absolutist Kingdom of France) was a short-lived constitutional monarchy that existed from 3 September 1791 until 21 September 1792, when it was succeeded by the French First Republic.
On 3 September 1791, the National Constituent Assembly forced King Louis XVI to accept the French Constitution of 1791, thus turning the absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy.
After the 10 August 1792 Storming of the Tuileries Palace, the Legislative Assembly on 11 August 1792 suspended the constitutional monarchy.[2] The freshly elected National Convention abolished the monarchy on 21 September 1792, thus, ending 203 years of consecutive Bourbon rule over France.