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What time period of the revolution was marked by the death of Louis XVI and why is it significant?

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On January 21, 1793, it sent King Louis XVI, condemned to death for high treason and crimes against the state, to the guillotine; his wife Marie-Antoinette suffered the same fate nine months later.

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