only the symbol of
“blood.”
14. The republicans receive a severe check at
Grand-Champ from the royalists.
The law repealed which forbad the wives and
daughters of emigrants to marry foreigners.
The republicans charge the royalists with violating
the late treaty. The latter retort the charge.
The republicans claim the victory of the 14th ult.
The nephew of General Dubois writes a letter full
of invective and gall against the convention.
All sorts of pastry forbidden, on account of the
scarcity of corn.
The decree which declares all assignats, bearing
the King’s bust, to be of no value in future, takes
away from private property one milliard, 665
millions, and 157 thousand livres.
The expence for public instruction amounts to
300,400,000 livres.
20. Romme, Goujon, Duquesnoy, Soubrany, Duroy, and
Bourbotte, members of the convention, and active
leaders in the late riots, are executed.
23. Boissy d’Anglas reads a new constitution, which the
convention proposes to read article by article.
Insurrection at Arras for bread.
The convention orders a school of 200 apprentices
to watch-making.
26. Bellisle is summoned by the English, and returns a
resolute answer of defiance.
A complete victory obtained over the Spaniards.
2. The emigrants in England are put under the orders
of Puissaye, and disembark at Quiberon.
The deputies Peyssard and Forrestier condemned to
prison. Prieur de la Marne and Albitte escape
judgment by flight.
The value of a louis-d’or is up to 1000 livres.
All citizens from 16 to 60 commanded to serve in
the national guard; and in their oath to swear
these words, “Hatred against Kings”.
Decreed, that murders, which were to be punished
with 20 years imprisonment, shall in future be
punished with death.
A member proposes that the convention should look
back and punish all judiciary assassinations,
abuses of authority, massacres, and arbitrary acts
committed since the 1st of Sept. 1792. The
convention passes to the order of the day, saying,
that such retrospect would involve half of France.
All the members of the revolutionary committee of
Brest are delivered over to the tribunals.
The Vendeans have further successes.
Fresh massacres are committed at Macon.
A section of Paris demands of the convention that
it should efface the inscriptions on the gates of
churches, by which the nation, at the instance of
Robespierre, granted a certificate of existence to
the Supreme Being, and insured immortality to the
soul.
The churches in Paris are opened, and service
performed with great ceremony.
22. Lord Bridport engages the French fleet, and takes
three sail of the line.
30. The convention decrees that the daughter of the
late King shall be given up to the Emperor, in
“blood.”
14. The republicans receive a severe check at
Grand-Champ from the royalists.
The law repealed which forbad the wives and
daughters of emigrants to marry foreigners.
The republicans charge the royalists with violating
the late treaty. The latter retort the charge.
The republicans claim the victory of the 14th ult.
The nephew of General Dubois writes a letter full
of invective and gall against the convention.
All sorts of pastry forbidden, on account of the
scarcity of corn.
The decree which declares all assignats, bearing
the King’s bust, to be of no value in future, takes
away from private property one milliard, 665
millions, and 157 thousand livres.
The expence for public instruction amounts to
300,400,000 livres.
20. Romme, Goujon, Duquesnoy, Soubrany, Duroy, and
Bourbotte, members of the convention, and active
leaders in the late riots, are executed.
23. Boissy d’Anglas reads a new constitution, which the
convention proposes to read article by article.
Insurrection at Arras for bread.
The convention orders a school of 200 apprentices
to watch-making.
26. Bellisle is summoned by the English, and returns a
resolute answer of defiance.
A complete victory obtained over the Spaniards.
2. The emigrants in England are put under the orders
of Puissaye, and disembark at Quiberon.
The deputies Peyssard and Forrestier condemned to
prison. Prieur de la Marne and Albitte escape
judgment by flight.
The value of a louis-d’or is up to 1000 livres.
All citizens from 16 to 60 commanded to serve in
the national guard; and in their oath to swear
these words, “Hatred against Kings”.
Decreed, that murders, which were to be punished
with 20 years imprisonment, shall in future be
punished with death.
A member proposes that the convention should look
back and punish all judiciary assassinations,
abuses of authority, massacres, and arbitrary acts
committed since the 1st of Sept. 1792. The
convention passes to the order of the day, saying,
that such retrospect would involve half of France.
All the members of the revolutionary committee of
Brest are delivered over to the tribunals.
The Vendeans have further successes.
Fresh massacres are committed at Macon.
A section of Paris demands of the convention that
it should efface the inscriptions on the gates of
churches, by which the nation, at the instance of
Robespierre, granted a certificate of existence to
the Supreme Being, and insured immortality to the
soul.
The churches in Paris are opened, and service
performed with great ceremony.
22. Lord Bridport engages the French fleet, and takes
three sail of the line.
30. The convention decrees that the daughter of the
late King shall be given up to the Emperor, in