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.
all who voted for the appeal to the people. 
The two parties in the convention come to actual
blows; and confusion and disorder continue for
three hours. 
The anti-jacobins obtain the upper hand at Lyons,
and 400 persons are sacrificed.
25.  Marat insults the convention.  Decreed, that any
member who shall call another villain, or
conspirator, or such-like names, shall be expelled
the convention.  Marat instantly violates this law. 
Great tumults.
26.  All printing-offices and presses, not in the
interest of the jacobins, such as those of Brissot,
Condorcet, Pru de l’Homme, Rabaut, &c. are
destroyed.
27.  The elector of Bavaria, after receiving the
Emperor’s note, becomes active; a part of his army
marches to Mayence.
30.  Hebert is set at liberty.  The French from Landau
make an effort to deliver Mayence. 
A bold sally is made from Mayence.  Prince Louis,
son of Prince Ferdinand, makes a vigorous
resistance.  The jacobins are victorious in Paris.
100,000 citizens are under arms all night.  The
tocsin (alarm bell) is ringing all day. 
The forty-eight sections of Paris demand an act of
accusation against twenty members; among whom are,
Pethion, Brissot, Barbaroux, Chambon, Gorsas,
Guadet, Lanjuinais, Verniaud, &c.  Six escape, and
among them is Brissot.  Madame Roland is arrested;
her husband not to be found. 
The convention in horrible tumult; and the
president (Isnard) unable to calm it, breaks up the
sitting.  The result of this famous day was to
devote twenty-two members to the guillotine, to
declare forty-one out of the protection of the law,
and to imprison seventy-one.
June.  A legion of French gentlemen sails from England to
Ostend. 
A party of male and female negroes are presented to
the convention. 
The generals of the French armies are as follows: 
Custine commands the army of the North at Bouchain;
Houchard that of the Moselle, at Sar Louis;
Beauharnols, the army of the Rhine, at Wissenbourg;
Kellerman, that of the Alps, at Chamberry; Brunet,
that of Italy, at Nice; De Flers, that of the
Eastern Pyrenees, at Bayonne; Biron, the army of
the coasts of Nantes, at Nantes; and Wimpfer, that
of the coasts of Cantal, at Bayeux.
7.  The royalists in La Vendee obtain considerable
advantages. 
Baron Trenck becomes a jacobin.
9.  A bloody battle near Arlon.  The French very
numerous.  General Schroeder forced to retreat. 
Arlon pillaged by the French. 
Discussion in the convention about a forced loan of
a milliard of livres. 
The Prince of Waldec killed in an attack near Lisle
at the head of the Dutch. 
Severe complaints from most of the departments
about the sitting of the 31st of May. 
Saumur and Angers taken by the royalists.
13.  Manifesto from the Marseilleois
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