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.
25.  Mons. de Favras, knight of St. Louis, arrested.
1790.
January 1.  The King is stripped of most of his royal
prerogatives.
4.  The assembly desires him to fix the amount of his
civil list.
6.  The castle of Keralier burnt by plunderers. 
The three orders of the clergy, nobility, and
commons, suppressed as distinct orders of the
monarchy.
7.  Decree for the form of a civic oath to be taken by
the national guards.
13.  Decreed that Paris shall form one department. 
Decree in favour of Jews; another to remove the
prejudices which are attached to the families of
criminals.
Feb. 1.  The King, after a long speech to the assembly,
takes the civic oath, together with all the
members.
19.  De Favras executed.
20.  Death of Joseph IId. emperor of Germany.
March.  Massacres and fires in Lower-Languedoc.
7.  Grand review of the national guards in the Elysian
fields. 
The scarcity of specie induces the necessity of
issuing paper money called assignats.
8.  Decreed, that the colonies form a part of the
French empire.
11.  Insurrection at Meaux.
12.  The red-book (book of court-accounts) made
publick.(sic)
14.  Insurrection at the national theatre.
18.  Sale of the property of the church decreed, by
which the government is enabled to abolish the duty
on salt.
April.  The Prince of Conti takes the civic oath in the
municipality of Paris.
11.  The Abbe, Maury and Viscount Mirabeau attacked
by the populace on coming out of the assembly. 
The assembly refuses to acknowledge the Roman
Catholick (sic) religion as the religion of the
state; and this resolution is followed by
forbidding all particularity of dress or form in
ecclesiastics.
22.  General Paoli, at the head of a deputation from
Corsica, presents himself to the national assembly.
24.  Insurrection at Marseilles.
May.  Report and decree upon the disturbances at Mount
Auban. 
Monastic vows prohibited in future.
17.  Orders of knighthood and military decorations
abolished.
22.  Decreed, that the right of making peace and war
belongs to the people.
25.  The Parisians occupied with hanging several
robbers.
June.  Public Seminaries and academies of instruction
suppressed.
9.  The King goes to the assembly, and requires 25
millions of livres for his civil list.
10.  The Queen’s dower fixed at four millions. 
One million is voted for the King’s brothers.
16.  Massacres and disorders at Nismes (sic).
19.  Suppression of nobility, of all titles and orders,
of armorial bearings, and of livery-servants.
July 3.  Justices of the peace appointed throughout the
kingdom.
14.  Ceremony of a general federation, at which the King
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