During the
French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in
France, comprised the
constitutional and legislative
assembly which sat from
September 20,
1792 to
October 26,
1795 (the 4th of Brumaire of the year IV under the
French Republican Calendar adopted by the Convention). It held executive power in France during the first years of the
French First Republic. It was succeeded by the
Directory, commencing
November 2,
1795. Prominent members of the original Convention included
Maximilien Robespierre of the
Jacobin Club,
Jean-Paul Marat (affiliated with the Jacobins, though never a formal member), and
Georges Danton of the
Cordeliers.
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