when i read about the national convention i see it a time period that went up and down. many people had fallen including children. this i think was some of the hardest times France had gone through and as a whole they had lost so much because of the revolution and the counter revolutionary actions by the people but at the same time the Imperial and Prussian armies had caused a mess from before that and in many ways made t that much worse for France just by interfering with the royal family to begin with.