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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 DeathGoudemetz, Henry

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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

1792.
_Sept_.      20.  First sitting of the third legislature, which takes
                  the title of National Convention.  It consists of
                  745 members.
             21.  Decreed, that royalty is abolished, and that the
                  kingdom of France is a republic.
                  The battle of Grand-Pre gained by General
                  Dumouricr.
             22.  Danton resigns the ministry in order to take a
                  place in the convention.
             23.  The old Marshal Luckner is ordered to the bar of
                  the convention.
             27.  Mons. Cazotte, an author much esteemed, and who
                  with difficulty escaped from the assassins of the
                  2d of September, is conducted to the guillotine at
                  80 years of age.
             29.  The Austrians begin to bombard Lisle (sic).
                  Spires taken by the army of Gen. Custine.
_Oct_.        2.  The Duke of Brunswick, commanding the Prussians,
                  begins his retreat from France, and raises the
                  siege of Thionville.
              4.  The title of Citizen is substituted for those of
                  Monsieur and Madame by a decree.
              7.  The Austrians raise the siege of Lisle.
              8.  Massacre at Cambray.
              9.  The soldiers of General Dumourier massacre their
                  prisoners.
             10.  Servan quits the ministry.
                  Garat is appointed minister of justice.
             13.  Verdun evacuated by the Prussians.
             14.  A civic festival in honour of the conquest of
                  Savoy.
             18.  Nine emigrants guillotined in the Place-de-Greve.
             22.  The French retake Longwy.
             23.  Mayence taken by General Custine.
             24.  Great accusations of Roland to the convention.
             25.  The French territory evacuated by the Austrians and
                  Prussians.
             26.  Frankfort on the Main taken by the French.
             31.  A great number of returned emigrants denounced to
                  the commune of Paris.
_Nov_.        2.  All work at the camp near Paris is stopped.
              3.  The house of the deputy Marat is invested,
                  and the people demand his head.
              4.  Robespierre endeavours to acquit himself of the
                  charges brought against him by the deputy Louvet.
              6.  Report in the assembly of disturbances in the
                  department of Mayence and Loire.
                  Three hundred millions of assignats issued with new
                  emblems.
                  A discourse upon Atheism pronounced by Dupont, and
                  applauded by the convention.
                  The Princess de Rohan-Rochefort is sent to prison
                  for having written to the ex-minister Bertrand.
              7.

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