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Historical Epochs of the French Revolution: With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France; And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death — John Shaqi

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Historical Epochs of the French Revolution: With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France; And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death

Name: Historical Epochs of the French Revolution: With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France; And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death
Author: Goudemetz, Henry

Goudemetz, Henry

France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793

7605 prisoners, &c. inhumanly murdered, and the
                  assassins publicly demand their wages.  Every house
                  is a scene of dismay.  Massacres and butcheries are
                  committed in all the prisons and religious houses.
                  These horrors drive a great number of inhabitants
                  from Paris.
                  The Duke de la Rochefoucault, ex-constituent and
                  president of the department of Paris, is torn to
                  pieces by the populace.
             10.  Massacre at Versailles of 53 prisoners from
                  Orleans, who, it appears, were summoned to Paris
                  for the express purpose of having them disposed of
                  in this expeditious manner.
                  Troops are enrolled for the frontiers.
                  A camp is formed close to Paris.
             13.  The French armies fall back towards Chalons.
             14.  The King accepts the constitution.
             15.  Decreed, that the King's person is inviolable,
                  and the crown of France indivisible and hereditary.
             16.  Robbery of the wardrobe of the crown.
                  Decree, formally allowing divorces.
             18.  Philips, of the club of jacobins, presents in a
                  little box, to the legislative assembly, the heads
                  of his father and mother, whom his patriotism, as
                  he said, had just sacrificed.
             19.  The last sitting of the legislative assembly.
CHAPTER III.

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