What happened the day after Louis XVI's death?

One day after being convicted of conspiracy with foreign powers and sentenced to death by the French National Convention, King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution in Paris. read more

"Day of 21 January 1793 the death of Louis Capet on the Place de la Révolution" – French engraving. The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution ("Revolution Square", formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) in Paris. read more

But on August 11th 1792 this statue had been torn down, and in the weeks that followed a systematic attempt had been made to destroy every visible or legible reminder of kings. This was the aftermath of the Revolution of August 10th, the Republican Revolution, in which Louis XV's grandson, and the throne he occupied, had been overthrown. read more