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.
Duhem complains to the convention, that the vessel
of state is near foundering. 
Garat passes from the office of minister of justice
to that of the interior. 
Discourse of Danton, to rouse the people en masse
(in a body.)
A constitutional priest, commanding a battalion,
begs the convention to preserve his rectory for him
whilst he goes to the frontiers. 
The inhabitants of Frankfort write to Custine, that
they are not willing to receive the French
government. 
Insurrection at Orleans.
24.  The Austrians enter Brussels and Mechlin. 
The Prussians pass the Rhine at St. Goar.
26.  Antwerp submits to the Austrians. 
The statue of Prince Charles of Loraine, which the
insurgents overturned, is restored.
27.  Namur and Mons evacuated by the French. 
The Archduke Charles appointed governor of the Low
Countries. 
Danton proposes to the convention, that all
citizens be justified to kill any persons who are
hostile to the revolution, wherever they may find
them.
29.  The Austrians enter Ghent. 
At the end of this month, all Brabant has returned
to the dominion of the Emperor. 
Tumults and plunders in private houses at Paris. 
The convention summons Dumourier to its bar. 
The French are driven out of Worms, and Spires.
April 2.  The convention sends Bournonville, the minister of
war, with four commissioners to arrest Dumourier;
but he, apprized of their intentions, seizes them,
and delivers them to the Prince of Cobourg. 
Dumourier sends General Miaczinski to secure Lisle,
but he is suspected, and arrested there. 
The French evacuate Breda and Gertruydenberg. 
Dumourier, accompanied by Gen. Valance, and two
sons of Philip Egalite, together with some
regiments and the military chest, passes over to
the Austrians. 
This step of Dumourier induces the convention to
declare itself permanent. 
The German princes and nobles, who were detained
prisoners at Landau, are conveyed to Paris as
hostages for the commissioners who are kept by the
Austrians. 
Domiciliary visits are recommended at Paris. 
Mons. de Blanchland, governor of St. Domingo, is
guillotined at Paris, and dies with extraordinary
firmness. 
Great congress held at Antwerp by the chiefs of the
allied armies. 
Decreed, that henceforward commissioners shall
remain with the armies, and be invested with powers
unlimited. 
Philip Egalite, his third son, his sister, and the
Prince of Conti (sic), conducted prisoners to
Marseilles. 
The commune of Vernon is unwilling to suffer
Madame d’Orleans to depart, on account of her ill
heath, and they promise to answer with their lives
for their benefactress and friend. 
The Prussians prepare for the siege of Mayence. 
The creditors of Egalite fix his annual allowance
at about 8000l. a year.  His
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