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
_July_ Religious worship abolished at Liege, the priests
banished, and the churches demolished.
3. Sir Gilbert Elliot receives the crown of Corsica in
the name of the King of Great-Britain.
Proclamation of the Stadtholder on the dangers
which threaten Holland.
A festival of the human race at Paris--it ends with
adopting poor children.
The French take Mons and Ostend; 87 persons
guillotined.
Newport also falls to the French--130 emigrants
shot.
Tournay taken by the same. The British
7. forced to evacuate Alost. Fifty persons condemned
to death.
8. The Austrians quit Brussels; the French enter it,
and retake Landrecy.
Spires, Mechlin, and Louvain, abandoned by the
allies.
Sixty persons guillotined at Brest.
Robespierre, in an address to the convention, is
heard for the first time with coolness.
The plunder of the churches of Brabant is sent to
the convention, together with two millions of
livres in specie from Mons.
18. Namur opens its gates to the French.
19. Revolution at Geneva.
The convention is charged in its accounts with 150
reams of paper a day;--each of its decrees costs
83,000 livres; on the first of April last, 6800
decrees had been passed by the three legislatures.
The members who compose the committee of public
safety, at this time of havoc and universal terror,
are Robespierre, Couthon, Billaud Varennes,
Barrere, Collot d'Herbois, Lindet, Prieur, Carnot,
and St. Just.
26. Robespierre denounces to the convention one hundred
of its members. A party instantly rises against
him. He is attacked by Billaud Varennes and
Tallien, and thunderstruck with the accusations
against him.
27. Robespierre endeavours to kill himself; the wound
not mortal.
28. All the following persons are guillotined this day:
Robespierre the elder and the younger, Couthon and
St. Just, members of the convention; Henriot,
commander in chief of the Parisian guard; La
Vallette, another commander; Dumas, president of
the revolutionary tribunal; Lescott Fleuriot, mayor
of Paris; Payan, chief agent of the commune;
Viviers, a criminal judge, and president of the
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