Historical Epochs of the French Revolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 215 pages of information about Historical Epochs of the French Revolution.

Historical Epochs of the French Revolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 215 pages of information about Historical Epochs of the French Revolution.
                  measures to one uniform standard. 
                  The title of Dauphin changed to that of Prince
                  Royal. 
                  Rewards are decreed to all those who stopped the
                  King. 
                  A committee is appointed to manage national
                  domains; that is, the confiscated property of the
                  King and clergy. 
                  Decreed, that if within a month the King do not
                  take the oath to the nation, or if he retract it,
                  he shall be adjudged to have forfeited the crown. 
                  Decreed, that the guard for the King shall not
                  exceed 1200 foot, and 600 horse. 
                  Those who may be placed in succession to the throne
                  to have no other title than that of French princes. 
                  Registers of the births, marriages, and burials, of
                  the royal family to be deposited in the archives of
                  the national assembly. 
                  Suppression of the payment of a mark of silver,
                  which was heretofore required from such as were
                  deputed to the legislature. 
                  Decreed, that every law relative to taxes shall be
                  independent of the royal sanction. 
                  The ceremony of marriage to be considered
                  hereafter as a civil contract only. 
                  Rousseau admitted to a place in the Pantheon. 
                  The national assembly declares, that it will not
                  revise the constitution which it has just
                  established, before the expiration of thirty years.
Sept.  The completion of the constitution announced to the
                  people, and that it will admit of no change.  The
                  departments are all occupied in electing new
                  deputies to represent them in a second assembly. 
                  Sixty members are appointed to carry the act of the
                  constitution to the King.
              4.  The King restored to liberty. 
                  Suppression of the order of St. Esprit; the
                  decorations of the blue ribband to be appropriated
                  to the King and the Prince-royal only.  The King
                  declines to retain a distinction which he cannot
                  communicate. 
                  Decreed, that the Rhine and Rhone be united by a
                  canal.
             14.  The King accepts the constitution in form; he takes
                  the oath in presence of the assembly; and is
                  crowned by the president with a constitutional
                  crown. 
                  Great rejoicings throughout all France. 
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