On the 18th April a Commission was formed to restrain the Terrorist party. This Commission was elected on the 18th, dissolved on the 27th, re-established on the 28th, and definitely suppressed on the 31st. The result was to bring about a total separation between the two parties. On the 31rst of May the Girondists were proscribed. On the 13th June Charlotte Corday stabbed Marat. On August 1st, Marie-Antoinette was accused by the Revolutionary Tribunal. On the 5th August an itinerary Revolutionist army was created to survey the departments, bearing the guillotine and artillery with them. On September the 3rd the trial of Marie-Antoinette began. On the 5th the decree which abolished the Christian Calendar and dated the beginning of the French Era from the 22nd September 1792 was issued. On the 12th, Marie-Antoinette underwent her first examination. On the 16th, Marie-Antoinette was condemned to death. At eleven o'clock the same morning she ascended the scaffold. On the 31st October the execution of the Girondists followed. On the 6th November it was Philippe-Égalité's turn. On the 11th, Bailly's. On the 1st December the prisoners were reckoned up: they numbered 4130 in the various prisons of Paris. On March 1st, 1794, there were 6000. On April 27, 7200. On April 5th, Danton, Charbot, Bazire, Lacroix, Camille Desmoulins, Hérault de Séchelles, and Fabre d'Églantine were guillotined. Robespierre ruled without opposition as master of France, aided by Barère, Merlin de Douai, Saint-Just, Couthon, Collot d'Herbois, Fouché de Nantes, Vadier, and Carnot. On the 16th the following decrees were issued:-- 1. That all individuals warned of conspiracy, or who are under suspicion, shall be conducted to the Revolutionary Tribunal at Paris from any part of the Republic. 2. That all so-called nobles and foreigners shall leave the frontier and sea-board towns within ten days under penalty of death. On the 22nd they guillotined Malesherbes, who defended Louis XVI. They made the martyrdom and holocaust complete by conducting to the scaffold at the same time his daughter, his sister, his son-in-law, his granddaughter and her husband. The number of prisoners grew and grew. On the 1st May they mounted to 8000. On the 8th, Lavoisier was executed; and twenty-seven other tax-collectors, whose names are now forgotten, were executed with him. On the 10th, Princess Élisabeth ascended the scaffold; and, as her neckerchief was pushed aside, she exclaimed to the executioner: "In the name of modesty, monsieur, cover up my bosom." She died as she had lived, a Christian, a saint, a martyr.