Decreed, that all aged and infirm priests be kept
in houses belonging to the republic. 
Report upon mendacity.  Decreed, that the
convention will efface the name of beggary and
poverty from the annals of the republic. 
The town and citadel of Bastia taken by the
English. 
The commune of Sens writes to the convention, that
it has dug up all the bodies of the Capets that
were interred in their cathedral, in order to bury
them in ordinary ground. 
An address to the French nation is prepared by
Barrere, and published by the convention,
concluding with these words:  “Let the English
“slaves perish, and let Europe be free.”
13.  Revolutionary tribunals suppressed, except that of
Paris.
14.  L’Huillier kills himself in prison, and Rebecqui
drowns himself—­both active agents in the massacres
of Avignon, and of the 2d of September.
15.  Kaunitz forces the French to repass the Sambre with
the loss of 5000 men.
18.  The Duke of York, with 3500 men, is attacked by
15000 French, and forced to retreat. 
General Beaulieu, near Bouillon, kills 3000 French,
and takes 700.
22.  Battle near Tournay, lasts 16 hours; the French
lose 12,000 men, and the allies 3000. 
A French army of 10,000 men penetrates into
Luxembourg.
24.  Kaunitz takes 80 cannon, kills 2000 French, and
takes 3000. 
Insurrection of the patriots at Liege. 
The Emperor quits the army, and returns to Vienna.
29.  Battle of Germersheim; the French lose 400 killed,
and 600 taken prisoners. 
A plot to assassinate Robespierre and Collot
d’Herbois fails of success; the former obtains a
guard for his person.
June 1.  The British fleet under Lord Howe engages the
French; the latter loses eight sail of the line.
2.  The convention decrees, that no Englishman or
Hanoverian shall be made prisoner in battle—­no
quarter to be given, but all without reserve to be
put to the sword. 
The Duke of York communicates this barbarous decree
to his army, in a manner that does honour to a
soldier and to a man. 
The guillotine is destroyed by the people at St.
Brieux, and the revolutionary tribunal expelled.
4.  The French are routed near Charleroy with the loss
of 4000 men. 
The man who saved Collot d’Herbois from
assassination, obtains a pension of 1500 livres a
year. 
Decreed, that the members of the convention, when
on duty, shall wear marks of distinction. 
Proclamation of the Emperor to induce all Brabant
to rise in a mass. 
A military school is instituted in the plain of
Sablons near Paris. 
Decreed, that a new grammar be published, to give
to the language of liberty a character that is
suitable to it.
8.  Jourdan, called Coupe-tete, general of the army at
Avignon, guillotined. 
The son and daughter of Louis XVI. employed to make