Law issuing the inviolability of the king
The law issuing the inviolability of the king was registered in chapter II of the Constitution of 1791 (section first Article 2).
The escape of the king then his arrest with Varennes, June 20th and 21st 1791, caused its handing-over in question: Maximilien de Robespierre, in its intervention with the Club of the Jacobins, showed a great discretion on this subject, but Georges Jacques Danton violently tackled the principle with the Club of Cordeliers.
The constituent Assembly approved the proposals of Jean-Baptiste Salle, appointed Nancy:
- “1. A king who will put himself at the head of an army to direct the forces of them against the nation will be supposed to have abdicated;
- 2. A king who will retract after having lent his oath to the Constitution will be supposed to have abdicated;
- 3. A king who will have abdicated will become equal ordinary citizens and will be accusable like them for all the subsequent acts with his abdication. ”
- 2. A king who will retract after having lent his oath to the Constitution will be supposed to have abdicated;
After the Day of August 10th, 1792, the legislative Assemblée decided noninviolability of the king and withdrew its functions to him.
The question about the inviolability of the king was put at the time of the Procès of Louis XVI in January 1793 but was drawn aside, Convention made the decision to judge the king.
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