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shall be burned.
Decreed, that sixty-two millions of assignats shall
be at the disposition of the war-minister
29. every month. And that 95,000 cavalry be raised for
the next spring.
30. Upwards of three thousand peasants, prisoners from
La Vendee, are guillotined or shot at Nantes.
31 Perigord Tayleyrand, bishop of Autun, ordered to
leave England.
Feb. 1. Mons. La Borde, the former court banker, and father
of La Borde de Merville, an ex-constituent, is
forced to purchase his liberty with a large sum of
money.
The opera of “Toute la Grece” is in great
vogue—the story of it is, that Philip, seeing all
Greece rising in a mass, begs for peace; Greece
refuses to make peace with a King.
Report to the convention, that excellent soap is
made of potatoes.
4. Slavery abolished in all the colonies.
Pichegru appointed commander of the army of the
North in the room of Jourdan.
The treasurer Cambon states to the convention that
last year 4,885,764 livres were coined of copper
and bell-metal.
A deputation of blacks appears at the bar to be
received as brethren.
Decreed, that every officer and soldier, of
whatever rank, shall have an equal quantity of
provisions, a man having but one stomach.
7. The 48 sections of Paris appear at the bar to
protest against any suspension of arms.
All mints for coining money suppressed, except that
of Paris.
The commune of Chamberry sends to the convention
twelve thousand marks [Footnote: Eight ounces
each.] of silver, together with the sword of Prince
Eugene, five feet long.
Manifesto of the Germanic body to justify the war
with France.
The Prince of Talmond and fourteen priests
guillotined.
One of the two brothers, of La Vendee, from whom
the Chouans took their name, is killed by the
republicans.
A bloody quarrel between the republican and
revolutionary soldiers of the French army.
The Vendeans obtain advantages at Cholet.
The Duke and Duchess of Luynes, and Mons de
Montmorency, an ex-constituent, imprisoned.
A work is published under the sanction of the
convention, proving that the national domains, that
is, the estates of the king (sic), the nobles, the
clergy, and the emigrants, are worth twenty
milliards of livres.
Deputies from the county of Mot Belliard demand its
union with France.
The old name of Marseilles is restored; it had been
forfeited by a decree, and was called “Sans-nom.”
18. The Abbe Maury is promoted to the dignity of
cardinal.
Troops sent from Paris to La Vendee receive orders
to travel fourteen leagues a day.
20. Thomas Payne claims protection of the club of
Cordeliers, who return for answer the vote he gave
on the King’s trial.
Mons. du Chaffault, lieut.-general
Decreed, that sixty-two millions of assignats shall
be at the disposition of the war-minister
29. every month. And that 95,000 cavalry be raised for
the next spring.
30. Upwards of three thousand peasants, prisoners from
La Vendee, are guillotined or shot at Nantes.
31 Perigord Tayleyrand, bishop of Autun, ordered to
leave England.
Feb. 1. Mons. La Borde, the former court banker, and father
of La Borde de Merville, an ex-constituent, is
forced to purchase his liberty with a large sum of
money.
The opera of “Toute la Grece” is in great
vogue—the story of it is, that Philip, seeing all
Greece rising in a mass, begs for peace; Greece
refuses to make peace with a King.
Report to the convention, that excellent soap is
made of potatoes.
4. Slavery abolished in all the colonies.
Pichegru appointed commander of the army of the
North in the room of Jourdan.
The treasurer Cambon states to the convention that
last year 4,885,764 livres were coined of copper
and bell-metal.
A deputation of blacks appears at the bar to be
received as brethren.
Decreed, that every officer and soldier, of
whatever rank, shall have an equal quantity of
provisions, a man having but one stomach.
7. The 48 sections of Paris appear at the bar to
protest against any suspension of arms.
All mints for coining money suppressed, except that
of Paris.
The commune of Chamberry sends to the convention
twelve thousand marks [Footnote: Eight ounces
each.] of silver, together with the sword of Prince
Eugene, five feet long.
Manifesto of the Germanic body to justify the war
with France.
The Prince of Talmond and fourteen priests
guillotined.
One of the two brothers, of La Vendee, from whom
the Chouans took their name, is killed by the
republicans.
A bloody quarrel between the republican and
revolutionary soldiers of the French army.
The Vendeans obtain advantages at Cholet.
The Duke and Duchess of Luynes, and Mons de
Montmorency, an ex-constituent, imprisoned.
A work is published under the sanction of the
convention, proving that the national domains, that
is, the estates of the king (sic), the nobles, the
clergy, and the emigrants, are worth twenty
milliards of livres.
Deputies from the county of Mot Belliard demand its
union with France.
The old name of Marseilles is restored; it had been
forfeited by a decree, and was called “Sans-nom.”
18. The Abbe Maury is promoted to the dignity of
cardinal.
Troops sent from Paris to La Vendee receive orders
to travel fourteen leagues a day.
20. Thomas Payne claims protection of the club of
Cordeliers, who return for answer the vote he gave
on the King’s trial.
Mons. du Chaffault, lieut.-general
