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
Goudemetz, Henry
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
indivisibility of the republic.
Ordered, that every knight of St. Louis shall
deposit his cross in his municipality.
Decreed, that no assignats, with the late King's
effigy, under the value of 100 livres, shall have
in future any value, but be received only at
present in payment of taxes.
Decreed, that all strangers in France, especially
English, be committed to prison.
Decreed, that all forests and all crops of corn in
La Vendee be burnt.
Decreed, that every vestige of royalty be
destroyed.
Decreed, that the trial of the Queen be commenced.
Decreed, that a camp of 300,000 men be formed
between Valenciennes and Paris.
The invention of the telegraph laid before the
convention.
The effects of the India company seized and sealed.
The members of the revolutionary tribunal doubled,
in order that they may be able to go through
business more expeditiously.
31. Engagement between the republicans and Sardinians.
Motion by Danton, to pass a national sponge over
the enormous number of assignats.
_Aug_. 1. The convention regulates an uniformity of weights
and measures in the republic.
It denounces to all Europe the government of
England.
Ordered, that the Queen be sent to the ordinary
prison of the Conciergerie, and given up to the
revolutionary tribunal.
Chambon moves, that all castles be erased from the
face of the republic.
2. A fire in the arsenal of Huningen.
7. Decreed, that Pitt is the enemy of the human race.
8. All academics and literary societies, which had
been established by letters patent, suppressed by
decree.
A colossal statue of liberty is erected in the
place of that of Louis XV.
14. The new constitution accepted by the federes.
Decreed, upon the motion of Barrere, that the
nation will repair in mass to the frontiers; this
was the origin of requisitions.
18. The battle of Lincelles in favour of the allies.
The army of the convention enters Marseilles, after
dispersing the few troops which that city had
raised to oppose it.
Decree for a plan of education purely republican.
The convention charges its commissioners to spare
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