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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

nothing to reduce Lyons, which is in a state of
                  rebellion.
                  A child appears at the bar of the convention,
                  saying, that instead of preaching up one self-made
                  God, the convention had established gods in the
                  principles of equality and the rights of man.
             28.  Custine is guillotined, at Paris.
                  Lord Hood addresses a proclamation to the Southern
                  provinces of France.
                  Lord Hood takes possession of Toulon, by agreement
                  with the chief men and inhabitants of the city, in
                  the name of Louis XVII.
                  Action between the Spaniards and the French under
                  Dagobert, in which the former lose their camp.
             29.  The Spaniards obtain advantages over another army
                  of the French towards the Western Pyrenees.
                  Within the last six months, twenty-seven generals
                  of the republican armies have been disgraced or
                  accused; of whom, five destroyed themselves, three
                  perished on the scaffold, and fourteen deserted to
                  the enemy.
             30.  Motion to imprison the wives and children of
                  emigrants.
                  Motion of Danton to cause the expence of the war to
                  fall upon merchants and the wealthy.
_ Sept_.      3.  Declaration of war by the King of Naples against
                  the French republic.
                  Poland is obliged to yield to the treaty of
                  partition proposed by Prussia.
                  Decreed, that every administrator of public
                  accounts, and every national agent shall give in an
                  exact statement of his fortune previous to the year
                  1791.
                  Le Brun and Claviere, ex-ministers, are deivered to
                  the revolutionary tribunal.
                  Energetic address from the convention to the French
                  people, respecting the treason at Toulon.
                  Decreed, that all foreign property in France,
                  especially English, shall be sequestered.
                  The convention resolves that new commissioners be
                  sent to St. Domingo, in the room of Polverel and
                  Santonax.
                  The Vendean generals write to the Count d'Artois,
                  inviting him to put himself at their head.
             11.  The city of Quesnoy surrenders to the Imperialists.
                  Robespierre declares to the convention, that the
                  country is in extreme danger.
                  The republicans are defeated at Chantonnay by the
                  royalists.
             12.  The Dutch are defeated at Menin.
                  The Duke of York is forced to raise the siege of

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