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.
Seze is added to them. 
                  The mayor of Paris, the procureur de la commune, le
                  secretaire Greffier, and thirty municipal officers
                  on horseback, escorted the King’s carriage when he
                  was going to the bar of the convention to be
                  interrogated, and to hear the act of his accusation
                  read.  The president said, “Louis,—­The French
                  “people accuse you of having committed a multitude
                  “of crimes in order to establish tyranny upon the
                  “ruins of liberty.”  The King having answered with
                  great precision and coolness, “Louis,” said the
                  president, “a copy shall be given to you of your
                  accusations.  The convention permits you to retire,
                  and will acquaint you with the result of its
                  deliberations.”
             14.  The charge d’affaires of Spain writes an earnest
                  letter in favour of the King, from his master.  The
                  convention treats it with neglect.
             16.  The French make themselves masters of
                  Aix-la-Chapelle. 
                  The King is brought a second time to the bar of the
                  convention.  Monsieur de Seze makes an able speech
                  in his defence at the bar.  The King then speaks to
                  the convention:  “My counsel has laid before you my
                  “justification and defence, I have nothing to add
                  “but this, that, in addressing you perhaps for the
                  “last time, I declare that my conscience reproaches
                  “me with no crime towards my country, and that my
                  “advocates have spoken nothing but the truth.”
             27.  Generals Luckner and Rochambeau made marshals of
                  France.
1793
January.  Roland publishes a letter to oppose the calumnies
                  against him. 
                  The loyal subjects of Brabant send an address to
                  the emperor. 
                  Mont Blanc declared to be an 84th department, of
                  which Chamberry is the capital; this new department
                  contains 364,652 souls. 
                  General Dumourier writes some severe truths to the
                  convention, and offers to give in his resignation,
                  disclaiming all pretensions to a dictatorship. 
                  The convention rejects the King’s appeal to the
                  people. 
                  Prince Charles of Hesse-Philipstadt dies of wounds
                  he received at Frankfort. 
                  The alien bill passed in England; in consequence of
                  which,
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