<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (October 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (October 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . The National Convention had convicted the king (17 January 1792) in a near - unanimous vote (while no one voted "not guilty", several deputies abstained) and condemned him to death by a simple majority . </P> <P> Louis XVI awoke at 5 o'clock and after dressing with the aid of his valet Jean - Baptiste Cléry, went to meet with the non-juring Irish priest Father Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont to make his confession . He heard his last Mass, served by Cléry, and received Communion . The Mass requisites were provided by special direction of the authorities . On Father Edgeworth's advice, Louis avoided a last farewell scene with his family . At 7 o'clock he confided his last wishes to the priest . His Royal seal was to go to the Dauphin and his wedding ring to the Queen . After receiving the priest's blessing, he went to meet Antoine Joseph Santerre, Commander of the Guard . A green carriage was waiting in the second court . He seated himself in it with the priest, with two militiamen sitting opposite them . The carriage left the Temple at approximately 9 o'clock . For more than an hour the carriage, preceded by drummers playing to drown out any support for the King and escorted by a cavalry troop with drawn sabres, made its way through Paris along a route lined with 80,000 men at arms and soldiers of the National Guard and sans - culottes . </P>

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