The
National Convention was a single-chamber assembly in France from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 (4 Brumaire IV under the
Convention's adopted calendar) during the
French Revolution. It succeeded the
Legislative Assembly and founded the
First Republic after the insurrection of
10 August 1792. The Legislative Assembly decreed the provisional suspension of
King Louis XVI and the convocation of a National Convention which was to draw up a constitution. At the same time it was decided 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 universal male suffrage, without distinctions of class.