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.
about 70l.
according to the value of assignats. 
Credit appears to revive; 270 livres in assignats
for the louis. 
Patroles (sic) are doubled in Paris; much
apprehension is entertained.
19.  The convention announces peace with the Chouans.
May 1.  Decrees severe against emigrants. 
Preliminary articles signed between France and
Holland. 
Seventy persons massacred in a tumult at Lyons. 
On the motion of Dubois Crance, decreed, that three
milliards of assignats be issued. 
S. The Spaniards defeated near Figueras. 
Motion to permit a loss of two per cent. a month on
assignats. 
Vernier, successor to Cambon, states the expence of
the last campaign at 3,000,000,000 in assignats;
and the last month at 738 millions.
15.  An alliance offensive and defensive concluded at
the Hague between France and Holland; the first
article excludes the Stadtholder for ever; the
second assures to France one million of livres for
the expence of the war. 
A vigorous action near Mayence. 
Great agitation at Naples; several disturbers of
the peace imprisoned. 
A deputy complains earnestly against the facility
with which divorces are obtained. 
The Sardinians defeated near Mount St. Bernard. 
Decreed, that Le Bon be brought to trial charged
with cruelties equal to Carrier’s. 
Twenty members of the revolutionary tribunal
guillotined.
20.  An alarming insurrection of the people of Paris
against the convention; Ferrand, a deputy, is
massacred at the feet of the president; the
assassin of Ferrand is condemned
22. to death, but is rescued by the people; the
23. suburb St. Antoine marches against the convention,
which is in extreme danger and
24. alarm; divisions take place among the insurgents,
and they lose their force at once.  After having
had the advantage some time, the terrorists are
overcome by the moderates. 
The convention resumes its deliberations, disarms
the fauxbourgs, decrees the arrest of a great
number of its own members, and orders the immediate
execution of fifty of the chiefs of the
insurrection. 
Decreed, that Barrere’s transportation be
suspended, and that he be tried again, his sentence
being too mild. 
The terrorists rise at Toulon, as at Paris, and are
subdued with much difficulty and bloodshed.
25.  The Chouans, seeing themselves betrayed and
deceived by a phantom of a treaty which had been
held out to them as secure and permanent, again
take up arms.
28.  Rhull blows his brains out. 
A petition is presented to the convention demanding
a separation of the supreme powers, as the only
means of guarding against tyranny. 
The Spaniards are again defeated by Kellerman. 
A camp of 3000 men, chiefly cavalry, formed at the
Tuilleries. 
A proclamation of the convention to French seamen
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