LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!!
Since the king had fled the country with a false passport it took a while to find the man responsible. Well to demonstrate the time gap the date of the National Convention where they decided to create the French Republic was in September 1792 and Louis' execution is scheduled to be this Monday, January 21, 1793. But before his death the trial of the former king was held on December 11, 1792 So because this event is long overdue the people of this newspaper decided to write in real time and interview people about the event. These were the results.
There was a hush over the crowd as the carriage carrying the former king arrived at his final destination. Someone snarled "This is all his fault, none of this would of happened if he would have just listened to the will of the people." Louis XVI was half carried, half dragged to the stage of where his life would end. The normal way executions are preformed is that the criminal is tied down to himself and the stage them beheaded. But because it was Louis XVI he refused ties and he said that " Do what you are ordered to do, but I will not be tied; renounce that idea." The executioners moved as if they were about to show a sign of force but one person showed mercy uttering something inaudible and the executioners gave him grace. Right before the blade hit his body he resounded with a unmovable voice that hit all of the hearts in the square "I die innocent of all the crimes imputed to me. I pardon the authors of my death, and pray to God that the blood you are about to shed will never fall upon France". Then the leaders of the national convection (the ones who orchestrated the whole thing) seized his head and presented it to the people where the belly of the beast growled " LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!!" Which just festered through the streets of France.
By Georg Heinrich Sieveking (http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/louis16_execution.jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The public is now asking themselves why did this happen, what does this mean now? How else could this have been handled? Well all we can hope for is freedom and that the rights are finally given to the people. But those things will not be handed to us, we have to fight. Who knows this could be our turning point into a new prosperity or it could send us spiraling into a killing spree of our own people. Whichever way this will be remembered either as a sign of independence or dark times in our history. However that doesn't mean we shouldn't be proud of who we've become. This should bring us close as a nation and unify all of us. Be proud of who you are, a Frenchmen who has fought for our rights. It may not sway our way at first but France will come out on top. How long that will take depends on how hard the population is willing to work. Somehow, though, we are broken and now a leader needs to emerge and lead us into prosperity. But that doesn't happen in a day. This will be a process and we will fall on the way. But the Frenchmen nationality must never leave us because that is when we have truly lost.
Jean-Victor Schnetz [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sites: Historyguide.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2017. <http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/louis_trial.html>. "King Louis XVI executed." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2017. <http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-louis-xvi-executed>.