National Convention
.The assembly of deputies which assumed the government of France on the overthrow of the throne in 1792. It succeeded the National Assembly.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.