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.
Decreed, that bishops and parsons shall be elected
                  by the people.
             23.  A violent meeting at the Jacobin club.
             24.  Massacres at the village de-la-Chapelle near Paris.
             26.  Decree to enforce the oath by priests.
             29.  Mirabeau president of the constituent national
                  assembly.
February.  Deputation of Quakers to the assembly. 
                  Decree to admit the free cultivation of tobacco. 
                  Disorders in Le Querci.
             21.  The King’s aunts stopped at Arnay-le-Duc, and
                  forced to shew their pass, and permission to retire
                  to Rome.  With difficulty they obtain leave to
                  proceed. 
                  Insurrection at Vincennes near Paris.
March 4.  The pope issues two letters against the
                  ecclesiastical constitution of France, and the
                  clergy who had taken the oath to it.  He deprives
                  the archbishop of Sens, the Cardinal de Lomenie de
                  Brienne, of his cardinal’s hat. 
                  Massacres at St. Domingo.
              5.  Indisposition of the King.
              9.  Decreed, that the prisoners charged with treason
                  (leze-nation) shall be conveyed to Orleans. 
                  Gobet, a member of the assembly, appointed bishop
                  of Paris. 
                  Insurrection and massacres at Douai.
             22.  Decree excluding women from the regency.
             25.  The majority of the Kings of France fixed at
                  eighteen years. 
                  Discussion on the fate of the invalids. 
                  Mons. de M’Nemara massacred at l’Isle-de-France.
             26.  Public functionaries compelled to residence.
             28.  The monarchical club at Paris attacked by the
                  populace with stones, and dispersed.
             29.  Report upon an insurrection at Toulon. 
                  The minister of the church of St. Sulpice, who had
                  not conformed to the national oath, escapes with
                  great difficulty from the violence of the populace.
April 3.  The death of Mirabeau announced to the assembly: 
                  decreed, that he shall have the honours of the
                  Pantheon, (formerly the beautiful church of St.
                  Genevieve).
              7.  Decreed, that no deputy to the national assembly
                  shall be admissible into the ministry until four
                  years after the expiration of the legislature of
                  which he is a member.
              8.  Decreed that no deputy to the assembly shall accept
                  any
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