French First Republic

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French Republic République française (French)
1792–1804
National flag from February 1794, in use at sea only Coat of arms of the Republic
Motto: Liberté, égalité, fraternité ("Liberty, Equality, Fraternity")
Anthem: "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine")
The French First Republic in 1799   Directly administered   Sister republics and occupied territories
The French Republic in 1801, delineating departments
Capital and largest city	Paris
Common languages	French (official) Occitan, German, Dutch, Breton, Basque
Religion	Constitutional Church (until 15 July 1801) Cult of Reason (October 1793 – March 1794) Cult of the Supreme Being (7 May 1794 – 28 July 1794) Decadary Cult (4 August 1798 – 9 November 1799) Catholicism, Calvinism, Lutheranism, and Judaism (15 July 1801 – 18 May 1804)
Demonym(s)	French
Government	1792–1795: Unitary radical authoritarian revolutionary republic 1795–1799: Unitary directorial oligarchical republic 1799–1804: Unitary Bonapartist autocratic republic under a military dictatorship
Governments
• 1792	National Convention
• 1792–1795	Committee of Public Safety
• 1795–1799	Directory
• 1799–1805	Consulate Napoleon Bonaparte as First Consul
Legislature	National Convention (1792–1795) Council of Ancients and Council of Five Hundred (1795–1799) Sénat conservateur and Corps législatif (1799–1804)
Historical era	French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars
• Abolition of the French monarchy	22 September 1792
• Reign of Terror	10 March 1793 – 27 July 1794
• Coup of 9–10 Thermidor	27 July 1794
• Constitution of the Year III	6 September 1795
• Coup of 18 Fructidor	4 September 1797
• Coup of 30 Prairial VII	18 June 1799
• Coup of 18 Brumaire	9 November 1799
• Constitution of the Year VIII	24 December 1799
• French Revolutionary Wars end	27 March 1802
• Napoleonic Wars begin	18 May 1803
• Napoleon proclaimed emperor	18 May 1804
Currency	livre (to 1794), franc, assignat
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of France Comtat Venaissin Monaco First French Empire

In the history of France, the First Republic (French: Première République), sometimes referred to in historiography as Revolutionary France, and officially the French Republic (French: République française), was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution. The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First Empire on 18 May 1804 under Napoléon Bonaparte, although the form of government changed several times.

On 21 September 1792, the deputies of the Convention, gathered for the first time, unanimously decide the abolition of the constitutional monarchy in France.^[1]

Although the Republic was never officially proclaimed on 22 September 1792, the decision was made to date the acts from the year I of the Republic. On 25 September 1792, the Republic was declared "one and indivisible". From 1792 to 1802, France was at war with the rest of Europe. It also experienced internal conflicts, including the wars in Vendée.

This period was characterised by the downfall and abolition of the French monarchy,^[2] the establishment of the National Convention and the Reign of Terror, the Thermidorian Reaction and the founding of the Directory, and, finally, the creation of the Consulate and Napoleon's rise to power.