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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

General Paoli, at the head of a deputation from
                  Corsica, presents himself to the national assembly.
             24.  Insurrection at Marseilles.
_May_.            Report and decree upon  the disturbances at Mount
                  Auban.
                  Monastic vows prohibited in future.
             17.  Orders of knighthood and military decorations
                  abolished.
             22.  Decreed, that the right of making peace and war
                  belongs to the people.
             25.  The Parisians occupied with hanging several
                  robbers.
_June_.           Public Seminaries and academies of instruction
                  suppressed.
              9.  The King goes to the assembly, and requires 25
                  millions of livres for his civil list.
             10.  The Queen's dower fixed at four millions.
                  One million is voted for the King's brothers.
             16.  Massacres and disorders at Nismes (sic).
             19.  Suppression of nobility, of all titles and orders,
                  of armorial bearings, and of livery-servants.
_July_        3.  Justices of the peace appointed throughout the
                  kingdom.
             14.  Ceremony of a general federation, at which the King
                  is obliged to assist, to commemorate the destruction
                  of the Bastille.
                  Trial by jury introduced in criminal matters.
                  Judges to be chosen by cantons and districts; one
                  for the former, and five for the latter.
             26.  The constituent assembly publishes a civil
                  constitution for the acceptance of the clergy,
                  which they refuse to admit.
_August_.         Affair at Nancy--five regiments revolt.
                  Insurrection at Martinico (sic) announced.
                  Desilles shot at Nancy by the Swiss.
                  Mons. Necker, whose popularity declined, is obliged
                  to leave the kingdom precipitately.
                  The assembly, having declared the property of the
                  Crown to be that of the nation, grants to the King the
                  sum he required for his civil list.
_Sept_.           Horrid massacres in the colonies.
_Oct_.       28.  Fourteen castles are burned and plundered in
                  Dauphiny.
             30.  Outrageous conduct of two regiments at Befort.
_Nov_.        2.  The clergy propose to raise four millions of livres
                  in their own body for the exigence of the state.
                  The assembly seizes the whole ecclesiastical
                  revenue, without any respect of persons or
                  property.
             13.  Pillage of the house of the Marshal de Castries at
                  Paris.
             21.  Duport-du-Terre appointed keeper of the seals.
             27.  The assembly requires that every ecclesiastic,

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