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.
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.