Historical Epochs of the French Revolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 215 pages of information about Historical Epochs of the French Revolution.

Historical Epochs of the French Revolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 215 pages of information about Historical Epochs of the French Revolution.
agitates all Paris. 
A civil war is ready to break out.  The clashing of
arms, the general beating of drums, and the cannon,
are heard on all sides.  Several bloody engagements
take place between the sections and
conventionalists.  Two thousand dead bodies lie in
the streets.  The party of the convention, by the
aid of the troops of the line and of a formidable
artillery, defeats the insurgents. 
Execution and proscription of the chiefs and movers
of the insurrection. 
Tallien renews his motion to transport all those
who did not like a republican government. 
The Count d’Artois, under convoy of Sir John
Warren, takes possession of l’Isle Dieu (sic). 
A French squadron of six sail of the line falls in
with a valuable British convoy from the
Mediterranean, and captures the Censeur, a 74 gun
ship, and several merchantmen. 
Vernier, the organ of the committee of finances,
proposes to substitute money made of some metal in
the place of 18 milliards of assignats in
circulation. 
The inhabitants of Versailles supplicate the
convention to take into consideration the sad state
of their commune. 
A horrible picture is laid before the convention of
massacres in the South; the banks of the Rhone and
of the Durance are said to be covered with dead
carcases, upon which the dogs are feeding. 
Garnier de Saintes addresses from the tribune the
royalists of France.  “Insects,” (says he) “return
“to your nothingness; ye shall perish, whilst we
“shall be masters of the world, with which we will
“share our fortune and our liberty.” 
Tallien prophesies, that before three months a
counter-revolution will be effected; and he
therefore advises his colleagues to make their
political testament. 
Thibadeau immediately accuses Tallien of all the
calamities of the revolution. 
Clairfait and Wurmser compel the French to repass
the Rhine precipitately, and obtain great
advantages over them. 
Baudin, the organ of the committees of government,
proposes to the convention to adopt a plan of a
general amnesty for any act regarding the
revolution, excepting always the banished priests,
the emigrants, the fabricators of forged assignats,
and the assassins of the South. 
As to the punishment of death, it is not to be
abolished till peace be established.
24.  Rewbell pretends that the new government cannot
establish itself but by calling in the assignats,
and substituting an augmentation of taxes. 
The convention, having proclaimed an amnesty,
declares its sittings at an end; and to make up the
500 members who are to remain, it constitutes
itself into an electoral body. 
Le Bon is condemned to death by the criminal
tribunal of Amiens. 
The colonists of St. Domingo, who are at Paris,
nominate their deputies to the new legislature.
26.  From the 12th to the end of this month the
Austrians continue without ceasing to pursue the
French, and to destroy them in great numbers.

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