<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The National Convention (French: Convention nationale) was the third government of the French Revolution, following the two - year National Constituent Assembly and the one - year Legislative Assembly . Created after the great insurrection of 10 August 1792, it was the first French government organized as a republic, abandoning the monarchy altogether . The Convention sat as a single - chamber assembly from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 (4 Brumaire IV under the Convention's adopted calendar). </P> <P> The Convention came about when the Legislative Assembly, which had found it impossible to work with the king, decreed the provisional suspension of King Louis XVI and the convocation of a National Convention to draw up a new constitution with no monarchy . The other major innovation was to decree that deputies to that Convention should be elected by all Frenchmen twenty - five years old or more, domiciled for a year and living by the product of their labor . The National Convention was therefore the first French assembly elected by a suffrage without distinctions of class . </P>

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