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On 21 September, the National Assembly declared France to be a republic, and abolished the monarchy.
It was the National Convention, not the National Assembly, that abolished the monarchy on 21 September 1792 and inaugurated the republican regime.
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This sentence identifies the wrong assembly. The Assemblée nationale page on the French Revolution states that the National Convention succeeded the Legislative Assembly, met on 21 September 1792, and abolished the monarchy unanimously that day. It adds that the next day the Convention dated public acts from "the first year of the French Republic," thereby founding the republican regime. So the event is real, but the body that did it was the National Convention, not the National Assembly.
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- 21 septembre 1792 - La Convention nationale et la fin de la royauté - Assemblée nationale
La Convention nationale succède à l'Assemblée législative... Réunie le 21 septembre 1792... La Convention est chargée d'élaborer une Constitution républicaine. Elle abolit la royauté à l'unanimité le 21 septembre. Le lendemain... elle fonde un régime républicain.
France gained little from the Treaty of Paris (1783) that ended the war, except the colonies of Tobago and Senegal.
The 1783 peace settlement gave France more than Tobago and Senegal. It also restored or confirmed French control over places such as Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Lucia, Gorée, and the Indian trading posts.
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This sentence understates what France recovered in the 1783 peace settlements. The Bibliothèque nationale de France's overview of the 1783 treaties says that, in the agreements signed at Versailles, France recovered or had confirmed its ownership of Dunkirk, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Lucia, Tobago, Gorée Island, the Senegal River, and the Indian comptoirs. So describing the French gains as limited to only Tobago and Senegal is inaccurate.
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- The 1783 peace treaties | Patrimoines Partagés - France Amériques
France recovered its full control over Dunkirk, recovered or had confirmed its ownership of the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands, the islands of Santa Lucia and Tobago, Gorée Island and the Senegal River, as well as the Indian 'comptoirs'.
This account was proven true in 2012 after a DNA comparison linked blood thought to be from Louis XVI's beheading to DNA taken from tissue samples originating from what was long thought to be the mummified head of his ancestor, Henry IV of France.
The 2012 DNA comparison did not prove the story true. A later validation study found that the supposed Louis XVI blood and supposed Henry IV head could not be authenticated as Bourbon royal remains.
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This overstates what the genetic evidence established. A later peer-reviewed validation study compared DNA from living Bourbon male-line relatives with the Y-chromosome profiles published for the alleged Louis XVI blood and alleged Henry IV head. It found that the living Bourbons shared a different Y-chromosomal variant, and concluded that the earlier identifications could not be validated and that the analyzed samples were not from the French kings. So the 2012 comparison did not "prove" that the handkerchief-blood account was true.
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- Genetic genealogy reveals true Y haplogroup of House of Bourbon contradicting recent identification of the presumed remains of two French Kings - PubMed
The earlier identifications of these samples can therefore not be validated... This therefore leads to the conclusion that the analyzed samples were not from the French kings.
2024 6 part Apple TV+ series Franklin
Apple describes Franklin as an eight-episode season, not a six-part series.
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Apple's official press release for Franklin says the show premiered with the first three episodes of its eight-episode season on April 12, 2024. That contradicts the article's description of it as a 6 part series.
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- "Franklin," a new limited series starring and executive produced by Michael Douglas, to premiere globally on Friday, April 12, 2024 - Apple TV Press
Apple TV+ announced that "Franklin" ... will premiere globally on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes of its eight-episode season on Friday, April 12, followed by one new episode every Friday through May 17, 2024.