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HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Translated from the French of
H. Goudemetz,
A French clergyman emigrant in
England.
DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO
His royal highness the duke of York,
By the Rev. Dr. Randolph.
To which is SUBJOINED, with considerable
additions,
The third edition of the
Judgment and Execution Of
Louis XVI. King of France;
With A list of the members
of the national convention,
Who voted for and against his death;
And the names of many of
the most considerable sufferers
in
the course of the French
revolution, distinguished according
to their principles.
Bath, printed by R. CRUTTWELL for
the author;
and sold by C. Dilly, poultry,
London: The booksellers of
Bath, &c.
MDCCXCVI
******
Dedication.
To his royal highness the
duke of York.
Sir,
with the
design of serving an amiable and worthy man, I have
availed myself of your Royal Highness’s permission
to dedicate to you the translation of a work, which,
as a faithful narrative of events, wants no additional
comment to make it interesting. A detail of
facts, in which your Royal Highness, in behalf of your
country, has been so honourably engaged, may not prove
unwelcome in aid of recollection; and a detail of
facts, built on the experimental horrors of popular
power, and which, proceeding from the wildness of
theory to the madness of practice, has swept away every
vestige of civil polity, and would soon leave neither
law nor religion in the world, cannot, either in point
of instruction or warning, be unreasonably laid before
my fellow-citizens at large.
Under the sanction, therefore, Sir, of your illustrious
name, I willingly commit to them this memorial.
And if an innocent victim of oppression should thus
derive a small, though painful, subsistence from
a plain and publick (sic) recital of his country’s
crimes, I shall be abundantly repaid for the little
share I may have had in bringing it into notice; and
by the opportunity it affords me of subscribing myself
Your ever grateful and devoted humble servant,
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Francis Randolph.
Bath, July 22, 1796
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PREFACE
The following sheets contain a journal of principal
events of the French Revolution. The best authorities
have been resorted to, and the facts are related
without any comment. The reader will find a
faithful outline of an interesting and momentous period
of history, and will see how naturally each error
produced its corresponding misfortune.
Various causes contributed to effect a revolution
in the minds of Frenchmen, and led the way to a revolution
in the state. The arbitrary nature of the government
had been long submitted to, and perhaps would have
continued so much longer, if France had not taken
part in the American war.
The perfidious policy of Vergennes, who, with
a view of humbling the pride of England, assisted
the subject in arms against his Sovereign, soon imported
into his own nation the seeds of liberty, which it
had helped to cultivate in a country of rebellion;
and the crown of France, as I once heard it emphatically
observed, was lost in the plains of America.
The soldier returned to Europe with new doctrines
instead of new discipline, and the army in general
soon grew dissatisfied with the Monarch, on account
of unusual, and, as they thought, ignominious rigours
which were introduced into it from the military school
of Germany. The King also, from a necessity of
retrenchment, had induced his ministers to adopt some
mistaken measures of economy respecting the troops,
and thus increased the odium which pride had fostered,
and by diminishing the splendour of the crown, stripped
it of its security and protection.
To this was added the wanton profusion of the Court
in other expenses, and the external parade and brilliancy,
which, if they impoverish, often dazzle and gratify
the people, was exchanged for familiar entertainments,
which gave rise to frequent jealousies among the nobles,
and tended to lower that sense of awe and respect for
royalty among the people, which in monarchies it is
of the utmost importance to preserve.
At this time, also, philosophical discussion had reached
its pinnacle of boldness. Infidelity had woven
the web of discord in the human mind, which was now
ripe for experiment, and Rousseau and Voltaire
were the favourite authors.
Previous to the year 1789, from the extreme disorder
of the finances, it became necessary to raise money
by extraordinary taxes, which the common powers of
the parliament were deemed insufficient to authorize;
and afraid, in the present temper of the people, to
impose upon them unusual burthens, ministers looked
with solicitude for some other sanctions.
Monsieur de Calonne was unwilling to adopt
so dangerous an expedient as that of assembling the
states-general; [Footnote: An Assembly consisting
of deputies from the three orders of citizens in France,
namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the tiers-etat;
which last included every French citizen who was not
of the clergy or nobility.] he therefore adopted the
expedient of summoning an assembly of notables,
or eminent persons, chosen by the King from the different
parts of the kingdom.
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This assembly did not prove so favourable to the
measures of the minister as he expected: Monsieur
de Calonne was displaced, and the assembly
was soon after dissolved, having declared itself incompetent
to decide on the taxes proposed.
The King then commanded the parliament of Paris to
register his edicts for successive loans to the government;
but his commands were rejected. [Footnote: Chiefly,
as it was supposed, through the influence of the Duke
of Orleans.]
In the meantime, that spirit of discussing philosophical
subjects, which we have before mentioned, now fixed
itself on politics. The people exclaimed against
the weight of taxes, and the extravagance of courtiers;
they complained of peculiar exemptions from the general
burthens, and of grievances which arose from lettres-de
-cachet, and other despotic powers of the government.
The King, desirous of yielding to the wishes of the
people, recalled Monsieur neckar to the administration,
and in conformity to his advice, his Majesty declared
his resolution of convening the states-general.
But in order to regulate all matters relative to the
meeting of this important assembly, it was resolved
to convoke the notables a second time. Among
these, a diversity of opinion appeared respecting
the comparative number of deputies to be sent by the
Commons, and the two other orders; the cardinal point
on which the whole success of the revolution eventually
turned. [Footnote: The last assembly of the states-general,
which had been held in France in 1614, was composed
of 140 deputies from the order of the clergy, among
whom were five cardinals, seven archbishops, and 47
bishops; 132, representatives of the nobility; and
192 deputies from the commons. The Cardinal
de Joyeuse was president of the clergy; the Baron
SENECEY of the nobility; and the president of the commons
was Robert Miron, Prevot-de-Marchands, (an
officer similar to that of mayor of Paris.)] All
the classes into which the notables were divided,
decided for an equality of deputies, except those in
which monsieur and the Duke of Orleans presided.
In these, it was agreed that the representatives of
the commons should be equal in number to those of
the other two states. The ministry were of opinion
that this double representation was adviseable (sic),
and persuaded themselves that, through their weight
and influence they should be able to prevent any mischief
to be apprehended from this preponderance of the tiers-etat.
By their advice, the King issued an ordinance in
January 1789, throughout the whole kingdom, commanding
the people to assemble in their bailiwicks, and to
nominate deputies to represent them in the states-general;
viz. 300 for the clergy, 300 for the nobility,
and 600 for the commons.
Hac Fonte DERIVATA CLADES.
******
N. B. The first legislature, which was called the
National Assembly, has now the name of the “Constituent
Assembly.”
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The second is called the “Legislative Assembly;”
and the third legislature is called “the National
Convention.”
[Illustration: Frontispiece—Artillery.jpg]
****** Historical epochs of the
French revolution.
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1787.
March. The Assembly of Notables
first convened under the
ministry
of Mons. de Calonne, comptroller-general
of
the finances.
1788.
August. Mons. Necker replaced
at the head of the finances
on
the dismission (sic) of Mons. de Calonne; and
Mons.
de Lomenie, archbishop of Toulouse, made
prime
minister.
Nov. Mons. Necker persuades
the King to call the
Notables
together a second time.
1789.
January. Letters issued in the
name of the King for an
assembly
of the States-general. The clergy to
depute
300 representatives, the nobility the like
number,
and the commons 600.
May 5. Opening of the States-general
at Versailles.
June 17. The chamber of the Tiers-Etat
(commons) declares
itself
a national assembly.
19.
The Tiers-Etat takes the famous oath, known by the
“serment
au Jeu de Paume,” not to separate until
the
constitution should be established.
23.
The King goes in person to the assembly—but
his
presence,
far from intimidating the members,
renders
them so intractable that from this epoch
may
be dated the first attacks upon the royal
authority.
24.
Forty-eight of the nobles, with the Duke of Orleans
at
their head, unite with the tiers-etat (third
estate,
or commons).
A
considerable number of the clergy follow their
example.
28.
The King, from a desire of peace, requests the
whole
body of nobility and clergy to unite in one
assembly
with the commons; which is acceded to.
29.
Great rejoicings in Paris on account of this union.
July 11. The King in disgust dismisses
Monsieur Necker.
12.
The Prince de Lambesc appears at the Tuilleries
with
an armed party of soldiers.
13.
The city of Paris flies to arms. The Bastille
is
attacked,
and taken by the populace;
[Illustration:
Bastille.jpg]
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14. Mons. de
L’Aulnay, the governor, falls a victim to
the fury of the assailants.
Bertier, intendant of
Paris; Foulon, secretary of state;
and de
Flesselle, prevot des Marchands,
(somewhat like
mayor of Paris) are massacred.
From, this period
the maxim was adopted, “that
insurrection was the
most sacred of duties.”
15. The King goes to the assembly
to confer with it
upon the disturbances of Paris.
Many considerable
persons fly the country.
16. The Marquis de la Fayette,
and Monsieur Bailly, are
nominated, one to command the national
guards of
Paris, the other to be mayor of
Paris.
17. In hopes of quieting the alarming
tumults, the King
comes to Paris. Bailly harangues
him freely at the
Hotel de la Ville, (sic) and the
King receives the
three-coloured cockade.
August 1. Massacre of the mayor
of St. Dennis.
4. Abolition of tithes, and of
all feudal rights and
privileges.
Louis is proclaimed the restorer
of French liberty.
7. The King is obliged to recall
Necker.
27. The liberty of the press is
established.
Sept. 15. The person of the King
is decreed to be inviolable;
and the crown of France hereditary
and indivisible.
29. Decreed, that it be recommended
that all church
plate be brought to the mint.
Oct. 1. The King is forced to
accept and give the sanction
of his approbation to the famous
“Rights of Man.”
5. The Marquis de la Fayette at
the head of 30,000
Parisians marches to Versailles.
6. After murdering the King’s
guards under the windows
of the Palace, they forcibly conduct
both him and
the Queen to Paris amidst the insults
of the
populace, and with great danger
of their lives.
10. Tayllerang-Perigord, bishop
of Autun, proposes that
the nation should seize the property
of the clergy.
12. Decreed, that the National
Assembly be removed from
Versailles to Paris.
15. The Duke of Orleans obtains
leave to go to England.
19. The first sitting of the National
Constituent
Assembly at Paris.
21. The people of Paris hang a
baker.
The Jacobin Club commenced at this
time; first
known by the name of the “Club
de la Propagande.”
The name of Jacobins was derived
from the house
where the club met, and which had
belonged to the
religious order of Jacobins.
Nov. 22. The commune of Paris makes
a patriotic gift of its
silver buckles.
A general patriotic contribution
is first
requested, and afterwards forced.
Dec. 7. Decree upon the disturbances
at Toulon.
Another for dividing France into
83 departments, 83
tribunals, 544 civil tribunals,
548 districts, and
43,815 municipalities.
10. Vandernoot, and the disaffected
in Brabant, write
to the King and to the National
Constituent
Assembly; but their letter is returned.
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25. Mons. de Favras, knight
of St. Louis, arrested.
1790.
January 1. The King is stripped of
most of his royal
prerogatives.
4. The assembly desires him to
fix the amount of his
civil list.
6. The castle of Keralier burnt
by plunderers.
The three orders of the clergy,
nobility, and
commons, suppressed as distinct
orders of the
monarchy.
7. Decree for the form of a civic
oath to be taken by
the national guards.
13. Decreed that Paris shall form
one department.
Decree in favour of Jews; another
to remove the
prejudices which are attached to
the families of
criminals.
Feb. 1. The King, after a long
speech to the assembly,
takes the civic oath, together with
all the
members.
19. De Favras executed.
20. Death of Joseph IId. emperor
of Germany.
March. Massacres and fires in
Lower-Languedoc.
7. Grand review of the national
guards in the Elysian
fields.
The scarcity of specie induces the
necessity of
issuing paper money called assignats.
8. Decreed, that the colonies
form a part of the
French empire.
11. Insurrection at Meaux.
12. The red-book (book of court-accounts)
made
publick.(sic)
14. Insurrection at the national
theatre.
18. Sale of the property of the
church decreed, by
which the government is enabled
to abolish the duty
on salt.
April. The Prince of Conti takes
the civic oath in the
municipality of Paris.
11. The Abbe, Maury and Viscount
Mirabeau attacked
by the populace on coming out of
the assembly.
The assembly refuses to acknowledge
the Roman
Catholick (sic) religion as the
religion of the
state; and this resolution is followed
by
forbidding all particularity of
dress or form in
ecclesiastics.
22. 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
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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,
doing duty, shall swear to maintain
with all his
power and interest the constitution,
and every
thing that had been or should be
ordained by its
decrees.
1791.
Jan. The debts of the church
decreed to be national.
The
King refuses to sanction the above decrees
respecting
the clergy, but is at length forced to
it
by threats and terror.
4.
The clergy in the national assembly refuse to comply
with
the foregoing decree, and in consequence of
their
refusal a law passes that their benefices
shall
be filled by such of the clergy as will take
the
oaths of allegiance to the state.
Abolition
of all the parliaments and sovereign
courts
of France.
The
Count d’Artois finds it prudent to quit the
kingdom.
Out
of 138 prelates only four take the
constitutional
oath, namely, the archbishop of
Sens,
the bishops of Viviers, Orleans, and Autun.
The
latter alone carries his apostacy (sic) so far
as
to consecrate other bishops, who were presented
to
the vacant sees.
Horrid
treatment at Chateau-Gouthier of Mad’lle de
la
Barne de Joyeuse.
10.
Decree about stamps.
14.
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Decreed, that bishops and parsons shall be elected
by
the people.
23.
A violent meeting at the Jacobin club.
24.
Massacres at the village de-la-Chapelle near Paris.
26.
Decree to enforce the oath by priests.
29.
Mirabeau president of the constituent national
assembly.
February. Deputation of Quakers
to the assembly.
Decree
to admit the free cultivation of tobacco.
Disorders
in Le Querci.
21.
The King’s aunts stopped at Arnay-le-Duc, and
forced
to shew their pass, and permission to retire
to
Rome. With difficulty they obtain leave to
proceed.
Insurrection
at Vincennes near Paris.
March 4. The pope issues two letters
against the
ecclesiastical
constitution of France, and the
clergy
who had taken the oath to it. He deprives
the
archbishop of Sens, the Cardinal de Lomenie de
Brienne,
of his cardinal’s hat.
Massacres
at St. Domingo.
5.
Indisposition of the King.
9.
Decreed, that the prisoners charged with treason
(leze-nation)
shall be conveyed to Orleans.
Gobet,
a member of the assembly, appointed bishop
of
Paris.
Insurrection
and massacres at Douai.
22.
Decree excluding women from the regency.
25.
The majority of the Kings of France fixed at
eighteen
years.
Discussion
on the fate of the invalids.
Mons.
de M’Nemara massacred at l’Isle-de-France.
26.
Public functionaries compelled to residence.
28.
The monarchical club at Paris attacked by the
populace
with stones, and dispersed.
29.
Report upon an insurrection at Toulon.
The
minister of the church of St. Sulpice, who had
not
conformed to the national oath, escapes with
great
difficulty from the violence of the populace.
April 3. The death of Mirabeau
announced to the assembly:
decreed,
that he shall have the honours of the
Pantheon,
(formerly the beautiful church of St.
Genevieve).
7.
Decreed, that no deputy to the national assembly
shall
be admissible into the ministry until four
years
after the expiration of the legislature of
which
he is a member.
8.
Decreed that no deputy to the assembly shall accept
any
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favour from the executive power for four
years.
Several
nuns in Paris and elsewhere were publicly
whipped
for persisting to adhere to the old forms
of
worship.
10.
Insurrection at Cevennes.
Report
on the insurrection of a regiment in
Languedoc.
13.
Engagement between the officers and garrison of
Weissembourg.
14.
Riot at Nantz (sic) on account of the inauguration
of
the three-coloured flag.
17.
The sale of the property of the church is decreed.
18.
The King proposes to go to St. Cloud; the people
oppose
and stop him.
The
King complains of this violence to the
national
assembly, but with little effect.
20.
Report of massacres in the county of Venaissin.
The
King’s ministers, through the influence or fear
of
the national assembly, write to all the foreign
courts,
that the King had placed himself at the
head
of the revolution—from this epoch may be
dated
the
great emigrations of the nobility and other
considerable
persons.
The
Abbe Maury, the most intrepid defender of the
cause
of the church and the King, retires
precipitately
to Rome.
23.
Sad recital in the assembly of distresses in St.
Domingo.
26.
Assignats of five livres are issued.
27.
Massacres in the Limousin.
28.
Decreed, that soldiers may frequent jacobin
societies.
May 1. The barriers are thrown
open—all duties in the
interior
parts of the kingdom abolished.
Civil
war in the Venaissin.
3.
The effigy of the pope (sic) burnt in the
Palais-Royal.
7.
Decree permitting priests, who have not conformed,
to
officiate in private.
Mons.
de Massei massacred at Tulle.
Decree
upon the people of colour.
19.
Massacre in the Vivarais.
26.
Decreed, that the Louvre and the Tuilleries united
shall
be the habitation of the King, and that all
monuments
of science and art shall be collected and
kept
there.
31.
Decreed, that the punishment of death shall be
inflicted
without torture. From thence came the
use
of the guillotine;-an instrument of death so
called
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from its author, a member of the national
assembly.
June. Letter of the Abbe Raynal
to the assembly.
Persecutions
against non-conforming priests. Their
tithes
given to the proprietors of the estates.
5.
The King deprived by decree of the power of
granting
pardons.
7.
A law against regicides.
Conforming
priests are everywhere put in possession
of
the benefices of those who would not conform.
A
general sale of ecclesiastical property.
18.
Decreed, that all military men take an oath of
fidelity
to the nation.
Insurrection
at Bastia.
21.
The King and royal family make their escape
22.
from Paris; they had nearly reached the frontiers,
when
they were stopped at Varennes,
25.
and brought back ignominiously to Paris.
Count
Dampierre is massacred under the King’s eyes.
The
Marquis de Bouille writes a menacing letter to
the
assembly on the subject of the King.
An
order is intimated to the King to disband his
body
guards. All the royal functions are
suspended.
The King is kept a close prisoner.
Monsieur,
the King’s brother, escapes to Coblentz.
July 9. M. de Cazeles resigns
his place as a deputy.
10.
The national guards ordered to the frontiers.
11.
The body of Voltaire transferred to the Pantheon.
14.
Grand celebration of the anniversary of this day.
17.
Insurrection in the Champ de Mars—the red
flag (the
signal
of danger) continues flying a long time.
Disorders
in the Pays-de-Caux, and at
Brie-Compte-Robert.
23.
Violent decree against emigrant nobles.
The
assembly proceeds rigorously against those who
accompanied
the King in his flight.
The
King himself is not considered so culpable.
All
distinctions of nobility, and all titles, are
wholly
abolished.
The
ministers are required to give an account every
ten
days to the assembly of the execution of its
decrees.
The
decree on people of colour spreads
consternation
at St. Domingo.
August. Money is coined from the
metal of the bells in
churches.
One
hundred thousand livres voted to the academy of
science
for the purpose of bringing weights and
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measures
to one uniform standard.
The
title of Dauphin changed to that of Prince
Royal.
Rewards
are decreed to all those who stopped the
King.
A
committee is appointed to manage national
domains;
that is, the confiscated property of the
King
and clergy.
Decreed,
that if within a month the King do not
take
the oath to the nation, or if he retract it,
he
shall be adjudged to have forfeited the crown.
Decreed,
that the guard for the King shall not
exceed
1200 foot, and 600 horse.
Those
who may be placed in succession to the throne
to
have no other title than that of French princes.
Registers
of the births, marriages, and burials, of
the
royal family to be deposited in the archives of
the
national assembly.
Suppression
of the payment of a mark of silver,
which
was heretofore required from such as were
deputed
to the legislature.
Decreed,
that every law relative to taxes shall be
independent
of the royal sanction.
The
ceremony of marriage to be considered
hereafter
as a civil contract only.
Rousseau
admitted to a place in the Pantheon.
The
national assembly declares, that it will not
revise
the constitution which it has just
established,
before the expiration of thirty years.
Sept. The completion of the
constitution announced to the
people,
and that it will admit of no change. The
departments
are all occupied in electing new
deputies
to represent them in a second assembly.
Sixty
members are appointed to carry the act of the
constitution
to the King.
4.
The King restored to liberty.
Suppression
of the order of St. Esprit; the
decorations
of the blue ribband to be appropriated
to
the King and the Prince-royal only. The King
declines
to retain a distinction which he cannot
communicate.
Decreed,
that the Rhine and Rhone be united by a
canal.
14.
The King accepts the constitution in form; he takes
the
oath in presence of the assembly; and is
crowned
by the president with a constitutional
crown.
Great
rejoicings throughout all France.
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The
national guard to take place of the King’s.
Whipping,
and burning in the hand, annulled.
Three
days allowed to every person under accusation
to
defend himself and repel the charge.
In
consequence of the acceptance of the
constitution,
all criminal proceedings are stopped;
all
persons confined on suspicion of
anti-revolutionary
principles set at liberty; no
more
passports required; a general amnesty takes
place;
and the decree against emigrants is revoked.
Disturbances
at Arles—suppression of the high
national
court of Orleans—and of all royal
notaries—national
notaries appointed.
Prohibitory
or commanding clauses in wills to be of
no
avail henceforward.
Every
sort of property dependent upon, or connected
with,
churches or charities, is confiscated.
All
the world admitted to the title and rank of
French
citizen, without any distinction of country.
Decree
to unite Avignon and the county of Venaissin
to
France.
Certificates
of catholicism suppressed, which
hitherto
were required before admission into any
office.
Severe
penalties against introducing titles of
nobility
into any public document.
All
the chambers and societies of commerce
abolished.
Jews
admitted to the rights of French citizens.
The
constituent assembly prepares to lay down its
powers,
without rendering any account of its
proceedings.
Violent
remonstrances against this.
Decree
against clubs and popular associations.
30.
The King goes in state to close the session of this
first
or constituent assembly.
CHAPTER II.
1791.
Oct. 4. The second assembly takes
the name of the
Legislative
Assembly, and is opened by the King
in
person. It consists of 700 members.
An
oath is taken to observe the law.
An
administrator in one of the departments flies
with
a large treasure.
17.
Massacre at Avignon, with unusual horrors. Jourdan
and
his people destroy 600 victims in an ice-house.
Insurrection
at Paris on account of religious
worship.
The
Marquis de la Fayette resigns the command of
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the
Parisian guard.
The
expressions “sire” and “majesty,”
applied
to
the King, suppressed by decree.
Twenty-one
committees formed out of the legislative
assembly
to transact all business.
Riots
at Montpellier.
The
pictures of the Palace-royal sold for a million
eight
hundred thousand livres.
27.
Insurrection in Alsace.
29.
Notice given to Monsieur the King’s eldest brother,
to
return to France, on pain of forfeiture of all
his
rights, and confiscation.
One
hundred millions of assignats issued.
Disturbances
in Artois and Lower Normandy on
account
of religious worship.
The
archbishop of Ausch, and several bishops,
brought
before the tribunals.
30.
Insurrections in almost all parts of the kingdom,
on
account of the prohibition of religious worship.
Charrier,
ex-constituent, and nominated by the
people
as successor to the Cardinal de
Rochefoucault,
in the archbishoprick (sic) of
Rouen,
ashamed of his usurpation, abdicates the
archiepiscopal
dignity.
Violent
decree against emigrants; the King opposes
his
veto to it.
The
King refuses his assent also to another equally
violent
decree, for the banishment of all the
catholic
priests who had not taken the oath
prescribed.
Guimper,
the first constitutional see, is taken
possession
of by D’Expilly, an ex-constituent,
i.e.
a member of the last assembly, which had
taken
the name of the constituent assembly.
Violent
insurrection in the colonies, supposed to
be
excited by some of the leading members of the
assembly.
Nov. New decree for a civic
oath.
In
the legislative assembly the answers are read
from
foreign powers, relative to the King’s
acceptance
of the constitution.
Massacres
at Caen in Normandy; horrid treatment of
Mons.
de Belsunce, a lieutenant-colonel.
Eighty-four
persons of consideration thrown into
prison.
10.
The Dunkirk carrier assassinated at Paris, and his
letters
stolen.
15.
The King confined to his apartment, under the guard
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of
a corporal.
17.
Varnier denounced by Bazire, is sent to prison at
Orleans.
Pethion
elected mayor of Paris.
18.
He goes to the jacobins to thank them for having
obtained
his election.
Manuel
is appointed procureur syndic of the commune
of
Paris (a place next in importance to that of
mayor).
20.
Disorders at Montpellier.
25.
Delatre committed to prison at Orleans.
26.
Chabot enters the King’s apartment with his
hat on
his
head.
Decreed,
that non-conforming priests shall not make
use
of the churches.
Dec. 1. Three hundred millions
of small assignats issued.
2.
Insurrection at Brest.
6.
Malvoisin, and twelve others, imprisoned at
Orleans.
16.
Decreed, that every member of the Bourbon family
shall
quit France in three days.
M.
Loyaute sent to prison at Orleans.
20.
Several castles burnt at Sens.
24.
Insurrection in the departments of Loir et Cher.
The
King goes to the assembly to discuss the
subject
of war with foreign powers.
27.
Lucknor and Rochambeau made marshals of France, and
with
La Fayette appointed to command the armies.
M.
de Narbonne goes to visit the frontiers.
Forty
soldiers, who had been sent to the galleys,
are
set at liberty.
Establishment
of a new high national court.
Manuel
causes the letters of Mirabeau, which were
found
in the mayor’s office, to be printed and
sold.
28.
The Queen goes to the opera, and is much applauded.
29.
Manifesto proposed by M. Condorcet, to acquaint the
world
with the sentiments of the French nation, if
it
should be forced into war.
31.
Decreed, that the ceremonies of New-year’s day
shall
be abolished.
1792.
Jan. 1. Egalite (duke of Orleans)
ill received at the
Tuilleries.
5.
Massacre of the minister of Chateau-neuf.
Motion
of Herault, that foreign powers be required
to
forbid the white cockade to be worn by
emigrants.
11.
Carra proposes at the Jacobin club, that the crown
of
France be offered to the Duke of York.
15.
Plan of a decree for declaring war against the
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Emperor.
16.
Decreed, that Monsieur has forfeited the regency.
Three
hundred millions of small assignats issued.
17.
Fire and ravages at Port-au-Prince.
Great
tumult at Paris on account of the monopoly of
of
sugar and coffee.
19.
Fire of La-Force.
21.
A conforming priest, his wife, and children,
presented
to the assembly, and loaded with caresses.
27.
Summons to the Emperor, to declare whether or not
he
is willing to live in peace with France.
31.
Decreed, that all travellers in France must supply
themselves
with a passport.
Feb. 1. Decreed, that all those
shall be imprisoned who
travel
under a false name.
Eighty-four
prisoners, who were confined in the
castle
of Caen, set at liberty.
2.
Letter of Manuel to the King beginning with these
words,
“I do not love kings”.
5.
Fires and massacres at St. Domingo.
6.
The Abbe Fauchet preaches at the Pantheon.
7.
Riots at Paris on account of a false rumour of the
King’s
flight.
Great
fires in the town of Haquenau.
Decreed,
that the property of emigrants belongs to
the
nation; order for its sequestration.
Riots
at Noyon about corn.
Insurrection
at Dunkirk.
14.
The red bonnet becomes the general fashion.
Assassination
at Mount Heri.
Insurrection
at the Fauxbourg (sic) St. Marceau, on
account
of the scarcity of sugar.
Struggle
between the clubs of the Jacobins, and the
Feuillants;
the latter so called from a religious
society
of that name, at whose house they met.
17.
De Lessart denounced by Fauchet.
22.
Motion, that no deputy be permitted to go to the
clubs
of Jacobins or Feuillants.
28.
Treaty of Pilnitz between the Emperor and Prussia.
March 1. Death of the Emperor Leopold
II.
3.
Seditions at Etampes; Simoneau, the mayor,
assassinated.
De
Lessart, minister for foreign affairs, sent to
the
prison of Orleans.
15.
Death of Gustavus III. king of Sweden.
Total
change of the King’s ministers.
Decreed,
that the King shall pay taxes like all
other
persons.
19.
Jourdan, and his accomplices at Avignon acquitted.
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A
new guard begins to do duty about the King.
Roland
appointed by the King minister of the
interior
department.
Insurrection
at Poitou.
The
Swiss Cantons demand from France the regiment
of
Ernest.
Alienation
of the domains of St. Lazare, and of
Mount-Carmel,
two orders of knighthood, of which
Monsieur
was president.
April 1. Troubles in Provence and
Dauphiny.
On
the motion of Torne, constitutional bishop of
Bourges,
all peculiar religious dresses are
abolished,
and all secular congregations.
6.
Pethion writes to the 48 sections, inviting them to
give
a fete to the liberated soldiers of
Chateau-vieux.
15.
A civic fete is given to the above soldiers, who
had
been imprisoned for crimes.
16.
Riots at the Hotel de Ville in Paris, on account of
the
statues of la Fayette and Bailli.
20.
The King goes to the national assembly to demand
whether
it is willing to declare war.
War
declared against the King of Bohemia and
Hungary.
M.
de Castellane, bishop of Mendes, sent to prison
at
Orleans.
29.
The army of Dillon routed near Tournay, and that
general
massacred by his own soldiers near
Lisle
(sic).
The
French routed near Mons under the command of
General
Byron.
May 2. Suppression of the military
houses of Monsieur and
the
Count d’Artois.
6.
Desertion of the royal German regiment.
8.
Report of the murder of several commissaries.
10.
Pethion, in the commune of Paris, presents a
silver
sword to Rene Audu, a heroine of the 6th of
October
1789.
Decree
concerning prisoners of war.
11.
New disorders at Avignon.
12.
Desertion of the regiment of Berchini.
13.
M. Brival, a deputy, writes to the King to desire
that
his cane may be restored to him, which was
taken
from him at the gate of the Tuilleries.
Abbe
Maury elevated to the dignity of an
archbishop,
and appointed nuncio extra-ordinary of
the
holy see, to the diet of Ratisbon.
Decree,
depriving the brothers of the King of the
million
which had been voted to them.
Renewal
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of the decree for the transportation of
priests,
which the King still refuses to sanction.
14.
Massacre of the Abbe Figuemont at Mentz.
16.
Bavai taken by the Austrians.
24.
Much pains taken to prove the existence of
a
committee in favour of the Austrians.
27.
Discontent in Paris on account of the King’s
having
a guard.
28.
The King is forced to dismiss it.
29.
Mareschal (sic) de Brissac, who commanded the
King’s
guard, sent to prison at Orleans.
30.
The first column of the Prussian army arrives at
Frankfort.
June 3. A civic fete in honour
of M. Simoneau, mayor of
Etampes,
massacred the 3d of March in an
insurrection.
6.
Massacre at Brussels.
Reduction
of the monies allowed for the pay and
entertainment
of the King’s ministers.
8.
The King refuses to ratify the decree for encamping
20,000
men near Paris.
13.
Roland, Claviere, and Servan, dismissed from the
ministry.
Ordered
that all pedigrees of nobility be burnt,
and
all papers relative thereto.
A
number of patriotic gifts to support the
expence
(sic) of the war.
The
tree of liberty planted in all parts.
20.
In order to force the King to sanction some decrees
to
which he had given a negative, the people go to
the
Tuilleries, break open the gates, and burst
into
the apartments. The King conducts himself
with
great firmness.
The
high national court at Orleans condemns
Monsieur,
the Count d’Artois, and the Prince of
Conde,
to be beheaded, and their property
consequently
to be forfeited.
A
new mode adopted for proving births, marriages,
and
burials.
26.
The department of La Somme offers 200 batallions,
to
enforce respect to the King. Several others
make
similar offers.
28.
La Fayette quits his army, and goes to complain to
the
national representatives of party violence.
A
petition against Pethion is signed at the houses
of
all the notaries.
30.
La Fayette returns to the army, and as soon as he
is
departed, he is burnt in effigy at the palace
royal.
July 2. Letter of the King to
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the French armies.
3.
Suppression of all the staff-officers of the
national
guard of Paris.
4.
Decreed, that the nation is in danger.
The
Duke of Brunswick arrives at Coblentz.
Distinguishing
marks granted to the legislators and
administrators.
6.
Dumourier goes to take the command of the army.
7.
Pethion, mayor of Paris and Manuel, suspended, but
very
soon after restored.
Ministers
all changed.
11.
A petition against the King signed at the Elysian
fields.
14.
Anniversary of the federations observed with
great
ceremony.
19.
Massacre of M, de Saillant, chef-du-camp de Sales.
20.
Proclamation of the King, on the dangers of the
country.
Decree,
that the property of emigrants be sold.
Many
of the constitutional priests sign a
recantation
of their oaths, and not enough are
found
to fill the vacant cures.
Massacres
at Alais, Bourdeaux, Arles, and in other
places.
28.
Decree, obliging people to mount guard under pain
of
imprisonment.
Three
hundred millions of assignats issued.
M.
d’Espemenil, an ex-constituent, is knocked down
and
poignarded at the Tuilleries, and with
difficulty
saves his life.
30.
The Marseillois arrive at Paris; ravages and
cruelties
committed by them.
Cockades
of ribbands proscribed.
Du
Hamel massacred in the street of St. Florentin.
Aug. 3. Decreed, that all Frenchmen
be armed with pikes.
Invitation
to foreigners to come and defend the
land
of liberty.
5.
Massacre at Toulon of nine members of the
magistracy,
under the pretence of aristocracy.
A
report is spread about the Tuilleries, that
the
King intends to escape.
8.
Decreed, by a majority of 426 to 224, that there is
no
ground of accusation against La Fayette.
Several
members complain of outrages committed on
them,
on account of votes they had given.
10.
Attack and pillage of the palace of the Tuilleries.
Massacre
of the Swiss, and of a great number of the
King’s
followers. Louis XVI. and his family fly
for
safety to the assembly.
Horrible
riots and outrages in Paris.
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11.
Continuation of frightful outrages and murders.
All
foreign ambassadors quit France.
12.
Roland, Clariere, and Servan, recalled to the
ministry.
Danton
appointed minister of justice.
The
statues of the King all thrown down.
Servan
appointed minister of the war department; de
Monge,
of the marine; Clavieres, of finances;
Roland,
of the interior; and Le Brun, of foreign
affairs.
The
King and his family are all conducted to the
Temple.
14.
Several ex-ministers and royalists committed to
prison.
Decreed,
that all the administrations of the
kingdom
shall be new formed.
15.
Persons departing, even with passports, stopped.
17.
Establishment of a tribunal for the summary trial
of
royalists.
18.
The Austrians and Prussians enter the French
territory.
Decree
against La Fayette; who, with part of
his
staff, quits the army and falls into the
hands
of the Austrians, by whom he is detained a
prisoner.
20.
Montmorin, ex-minister of foreign affairs,
imprisoned.
22.
M. D’Angremont guillotined at the Carouzel (sic).
23.
Longwy taken by the Prussians.
24.
M. de la Porte, comptroller of the civil list,
guillotined.
25.
M. Durozoi, author of the gazette of Paris,
guillotined.
26.
A civic festival, in honour of the sans-culottes
who
were killed in the affair of the 10th of
August.
Decreed,
that all ecclesiastics who have not taken
the
national oath, shall be transported. In the
number
of these victims were 138 archbishops and
bishops,
and sixty-four thousand priests of the
second
order.
General
Kellerman commands the army of Marshal
Luckner,
and Dumourier that of General la Fayette.
27.
In a sitting of the jacobins, Manuel causes an oath
to
be taken, that every exertion will be used to
purge
the earth of the pest of royalty.
30.
Domiciliary visits, that is, nightly searches
in
the citizens houses, for obnoxious persons.
Sept. 1. Letter of the minister
Roland, to all the
municipalities,
to induce them to agree in finding
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the
King guilty.
M.
Montmorin, governor of Fontainbleau,
although
acquitted by the tribunal, is conveyed
back
to prison by the people.
2.
The city of Verdun is taken by the Prussians.
From
the 2d (sic) to the 9th of this month, the
most
horrid outrages perpetrated without ceasing,
7605
prisoners, &c. inhumanly murdered, and the
assassins
publicly demand their wages. Every house
is
a scene of dismay. Massacres and butcheries are
committed
in all the prisons and religious houses.
These
horrors drive a great number of inhabitants
from
Paris.
The
Duke de la Rochefoucault, ex-constituent and
president
of the department of Paris, is torn to
pieces
by the populace.
10.
Massacre at Versailles of 53 prisoners from
Orleans,
who, it appears, were summoned to Paris
for
the express purpose of having them disposed of
in
this expeditious manner.
Troops
are enrolled for the frontiers.
A
camp is formed close to Paris.
13.
The French armies fall back towards Chalons.
14.
The King accepts the constitution.
15.
Decreed, that the King’s person is inviolable,
and
the crown of France indivisible and hereditary.
16.
Robbery of the wardrobe of the crown.
Decree,
formally allowing divorces.
18.
Philips, of the club of jacobins, presents in a
little
box, to the legislative assembly, the heads
of
his father and mother, whom his patriotism, as
he
said, had just sacrificed.
19.
The last sitting of the legislative assembly.
CHAPTER III.
1792.
Sept. 20. First sitting of the third
legislature, which takes
the
title of National Convention. It consists of
745
members.
21.
Decreed, that royalty is abolished, and that the
kingdom
of France is a republic.
The
battle of Grand-Pre gained by General
Dumouricr.
22.
Danton resigns the ministry in order to take a
place
in the convention.
23.
The old Marshal Luckner is ordered to the bar of
the
convention.
27.
Mons. Cazotte, an author much esteemed, and who
with
difficulty escaped from the assassins of the
2d
of September, is conducted to the guillotine at
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80
years of age.
29.
The Austrians begin to bombard Lisle (sic).
Spires
taken by the army of Gen. Custine.
Oct. 2. The Duke of Brunswick,
commanding the Prussians,
begins
his retreat from France, and raises the
siege
of Thionville.
4.
The title of Citizen is substituted for those of
Monsieur
and Madame by a decree.
7.
The Austrians raise the siege of Lisle.
8.
Massacre at Cambray.
9.
The soldiers of General Dumourier massacre their
prisoners.
10.
Servan quits the ministry.
Garat
is appointed minister of justice.
13.
Verdun evacuated by the Prussians.
14.
A civic festival in honour of the conquest of
Savoy.
18.
Nine emigrants guillotined in the Place-de-Greve.
22.
The French retake Longwy.
23.
Mayence taken by General Custine.
24.
Great accusations of Roland to the convention.
25.
The French territory evacuated by the Austrians and
Prussians.
26.
Frankfort on the Main taken by the French.
31.
A great number of returned emigrants denounced to
the
commune of Paris.
Nov. 2. All work at the camp near
Paris is stopped.
3.
The house of the deputy Marat is invested,
and
the people demand his head.
4.
Robespierre endeavours to acquit himself of the
charges
brought against him by the deputy Louvet.
6.
Report in the assembly of disturbances in the
department
of Mayence and Loire.
Three
hundred millions of assignats issued with new
emblems.
A
discourse upon Atheism pronounced by Dupont, and
applauded
by the convention.
The
Princess de Rohan-Rochefort is sent to prison
for
having written to the ex-minister Bertrand.
7.
The battle of Gemappe—the Austrians are
defeated
by
superior numbers, and an immense artillery.
Dumourier
after his victory takes Mons.
A
revolt announced at Guadaloupe.
10.
Decreed, that all emigrants who shall return
to
France shall suffer death, whether men, women,
or
children, not excepting those who had never
borne
arms.
12.
Ghent taken by the French.
14.
Brussels taken by the French.
19.
General Montesquieu emigrates.
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23.
De la Coste, ex-minister, and Du Fresne de St.
Leon,
committed to the prison of the Abbaye.
24.
Insurrection at Chartres and the neighbourhood, on
account
of bread.
25.
The King asks of the convention some Latin books,
that
he may instruct his son himself.
26.
Address from Finisterre to the convention,
denouncing
the deputies Marat, Robespierre, Danton,
Chabot,
Barire, and Merlin. Buzot supports the
accusation.
27.
Kersaint proposes to the convention to make a
descent
upon England with one hundred thousand men,
and
to sign an immortal treaty upon the Tower of
London,
which shall fix the destiny of nations, and
confirm
liberty for ever to the world.
The
Belgians protest against a decree which
trenches
on their sovereignty.
30.
Decree, charging the municipalities to keep
registers
of baptisms, marriages and buryings.
Dec. 1. Pethion quits the mayoralty
to become a member of
the
convention.
Chambon
is elected his successor.
Manuel
gives up the place of procureur de la
commune
for a seat in the convention; Chaumette
succeeds
him.
3.
Decreed that Louis Capet shall be brought to trial,
and
that the convention shall be his judges.
4.
Decreed, that whoever shall propose the restoration
of
royalty shall suffer death.
8.
The royal family is forbid the use of knives,
scissars,(sic)
or razors; the King not to be
shaved,
but his beard clipped with scissars.
9.
The bust of Mirabeau torn from the Pantheon, and
dragged
by the populace to the Place-de-Greve.
The
minister of justice reads to the convention 150
addresses
from the communes of Normandy in favour
of
the King.
Philip
Egalite renounces all eventual succession to
the
crown of France, to assume the title of French
citizen.
18.
The King is interrogated at the bar of the
convention.
Barrere
is president.
He
demands for his advocates Target and Tronchet,
the
former refuses to defend him; but Mons. de
Malesherbes,
making a voluntary offer of being his
defender,
is accepted with Tronchet, and Monsieur
de
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Seze is added to them.
The
mayor of Paris, the procureur de la commune, le
secretaire
Greffier, and thirty municipal officers
on
horseback, escorted the King’s carriage when
he
was
going to the bar of the convention to be
interrogated,
and to hear the act of his accusation
read.
The president said, “Louis,—The French
“people
accuse you of having committed a multitude
“of
crimes in order to establish tyranny upon the
“ruins
of liberty.” The King having answered with
great
precision and coolness, “Louis,” said the
president,
“a copy shall be given to you of your
accusations.
The convention permits you to retire,
and
will acquaint you with the result of its
deliberations.”
14.
The charge d’affaires of Spain writes an earnest
letter
in favour of the King, from his master. The
convention
treats it with neglect.
16.
The French make themselves masters of
Aix-la-Chapelle.
The
King is brought a second time to the bar of the
convention.
Monsieur de Seze makes an able speech
in
his defence at the bar. The King then speaks
to
the
convention: “My counsel has laid before
you my
“justification
and defence, I have nothing to add
“but
this, that, in addressing you perhaps for the
“last
time, I declare that my conscience reproaches
“me
with no crime towards my country, and that my
“advocates
have spoken nothing but the truth.”
27.
Generals Luckner and Rochambeau made marshals of
France.
1793
January. Roland publishes a letter
to oppose the calumnies
against
him.
The
loyal subjects of Brabant send an address to
the
emperor.
Mont
Blanc declared to be an 84th department, of
which
Chamberry is the capital; this new department
contains
364,652 souls.
General
Dumourier writes some severe truths to the
convention,
and offers to give in his resignation,
disclaiming
all pretensions to a dictatorship.
The
convention rejects the King’s appeal to the
people.
Prince
Charles of Hesse-Philipstadt dies of wounds
he
received at Frankfort.
The
alien bill passed in England; in consequence of
which,
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persons suspected may be sent out of the
kingdom
by the executive power.
The
Prussians and Hessians drive the French from
Hocheim.
The
King of Prussia publishes a declaration, that
his
army enters Poland only because that country
was
infested with French democratic madness.
Remarkable
address of the department of Finisterre
against
Marat and Robespierre.
La
Fayette is conveyed to Magdebourg.
The
Empress of Russia assigns lands in the Crimea
to
French emigrants, and causes to be paid to the
Prince
of Conde, at Frankfort, 200,000 rupees for
the
expences of journey.
Dumourier
goes to Paris while the convention is
debating
about the King. The jacobins insult him.
His
army is said to be 120,000 strong.
General
Custine celebrates at Mayence the festival
of
liberty, by burning the archiepiscopal
ornaments.
17.
The convention terminates its deliberations
18.
concerning the King. He is condemned to
19.
death. All endeavours to delay the execution
of
the
sentence are rejected.
Of
the members of the convention, 366 vote for
death
absolutely; 23 for death, but leaving it
hereafter
to be discussed, when the execution
should
take place; 8 for death, and a certain delay
or
respite; 2 for death at the peace; 319 for
detention;
and 2 for detention in irons.
Pelletier,
one who voted for the King’s death, is
assassinated
at a tavern.
20.
Louis hears with calmness the reading of his
sentence
of death. Allowed only two hours to take
a
final leave of his wife, his children, and his
sister,
who are frantic with grief.
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21. Louis is conducted
to the scaffold; his behaviour
is steady and dignified, he speaks
a few words
protesting his innocence, forgiving
his enemies,
and hoping that his death might
restore peace to
his wretched country. The
commander of the troops
orders the drums and trumpets to
strike up, that
his voice might be drowned, and
that he should not
proceed. In a minute after
this, his head is
severed from his body. A dead
silence prevails in
Paris. The places of public
amusement and all
shops are shut up. His last
will soon after
published.
The minister Roland, after assisting
at the King’s
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execution resigns his office, so
do the deputies
Manuel and Kersaint.
24. The remains of Pelletier are
placed with great
ceremony in the Pantheon.
The French envoy at Naples demands
and obtains an
audience of the King.
The convention decrees, that their
army shall
consist of 502,000 men next campaign.
26. Dumourier leaves Paris for
the army, with orders to
take Cologne, cost what it may.
Liege determines to unite itself
with France.
Paris, who assassinated Pelletier,
is arrested, but
shoots himself.
General mourning at London and Madrid
for
Louis XVI.
The convention decrees the union
of Nice to the
republic of France.
The British ministry signify to
Mons. Chauvelin,
who had been ambassador from Louis
XVI. that he is
no longer to be considered as such,
and must quit
England.
The sections of Paris complain of
want of
provisions.
Lanjuinais, speaking against the
murders of the 2d
of September, says, that the number
of victims,
assassinated that day, amounted
to 8,000, others
say 12,000, and the deputy Louvet
states them at
28,000.
Feb. 1. The Convention declares
war against the King of
England, and Stadtholder of Holland.
General Dumourier levies sixty millions
of livres
on the abbeys in Brabant.
The nurse of Madame Royale requests
permission to
see her in prison, but without success.
Proclamation by the Emperor, to
assure to the
Belgians their ancient privileges.
Great debates in the convention
about war.
The marines of Rochelle come to
swear fidelity to
the convention.
Philip Egalite takes the oath, in
quality of high
admiral of France.
The Marseillois leave Paris, and
return home.
An engagement takes place at Mayence
between the
national guard and the troops of
the line, on the
subject of the King’s death.
General Bournonville is recalled
from the army, and
appointed minister of war.
Dumourier begins to lose ground
in the esteem of
the people.
Eight hundred millions of assignats
issued.
Citzen (sic) Basseville, secretary
of the French
legation, is massacred by the people
at Rome.
Chambon quits the mayoralty of Paris,
and is
replaced by the ex-minister Pache.
The parliament of England votes
for war.
The French take possession of Deux-Ponts;
the duke
with difficulty escapes.
Lyons, opposes with energy the murderous
plans of
the jacobins.
The Emperor solicits earnestly the
triple
contingent from the empire.
New coinage in France, with the
legend of
“Republique Francoise. (sic)”
The wife of the Emperor sacrifices
some of her rich
ornaments to defray the cost of
the war.
General Miranda sends to the convention
the
magnificent key of gold, which was
given by
Charles III. to the inhabitants
of Louvain.
17. The French make an irruption
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into Holland, take the
fort St. Michel, surround Maestricht,
and menace
Breda.
Lyons destroys the jacobin club,
and burns the tree
of liberty.
Paris is in great disorder.
Dumourier addresses a proclamation
to the Dutch
against the Stadtholder. The
States-general answer
it by a manifesto.
Condorcet reads a constitutional
act to the
convention; the jacobins reject
it.
The national convention of Liege
decrees the
destruction of its cathedral.
Marat excites great tumult in the
convention.
Venice acknowledges the republic;
Bavaria observes
neutrality.
Custine transports the clergy of
Mayence who refuse
to take the oath of liberty.
The French bombard Maestricht, which
is defended by
the Prince of Hesse-Cassel.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany declares
a neutrality
with regard to the French republic.
25. The British troops under the
Duke of York sail from
England.
Breda surrenders to the French.
Dumourier bombards Gertruydenberg
and Williamstadt
with Dutch artillery.
The Convention decrees that soldiers
have a right
to elect their officers. Marat
urges this
decree, and strikes in the face
several of those
who oppose it, even in the convention.
The Duke of York arrives at the
Hague.
The Stadtholder declares he will
defend the
republic to the last.
28. The Archduke Charles, the
Prince of Cobourg, and
Duke of Wurtemburg, arrive at Duren.
The French merchants offer to send
fifty
privateers to sea.
Discourse pronounced in the convention
by
Anacharsis Cloots, on universal
fraternity.
Riots in Paris at the houses of
the bakers and
grocers.
Brussels desires, and obtains an
union with France.
Revolution in Geneva after the French
example.
The convention encourages addresses
from all
quarters on the death of the tyrant.
Decreed, that the troops of the
line shall form but
one body with the national guards.
All treaties of commerce and alliance,
with powers
at war, are annulled.
The convention requires 300,000
men to
compleat (sic) their armies.
March 1. Prince Cobourg beats the
French near Altenhover.
The British troops land at Fort
Ecluse.
The Austrians retake Aix-la-Chapelle.
Proclamation of Dumourier, to stir
up the
inhabitants of Liege, Belgium, and
Holland.
2. Carra denounces the farmers-general.
Deputy Rhul moves, that the property
of foreign
princes be put up to sale.
3. The French raise the siege
of Maestricht, and
besiege Williamstadt without success.
They
4. are beaten at Tongres by the Prussians.
Gertruydenberg surrenders to Gen.
Dumourier.
Zurich, Bern, and other Swiss cantons
acknowledge
the French republic.
Manuel accuses the jacobins (sic)
of all the evils
since the revolution.
Dumourier imposes 120,000 florins
upon the city of
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Antwerp.
War declared against Spain.
5. The bloody capture of Liege
by the Austrians.
Taking of Ruremond.
The Prussians gain some advantage
near Mayence.
Upon the motion of Danton, it is
decreed, that a
revolutionary-criminal tribunal
be established.
All persons imprisoned for debt
are released by the
convention.
Prince Cobourg requires from Liege
six hundred
thousand florins.
Arrival of 14,000 Hanoverians in
the Low-Countries.
The commune of Paris hoists a black
flag, as a sign
of extreme danger to the country.
General Miranda imprisoned in chains
at Brussels.
9. Dantzig submits itself to the
King of Prussia.
Dumourier conveys to Lisle the treasures
of the
churches of Brussels.
He stops the first commissioners
of the convention,
and sends them to Paris; he reviews
his troops at
Brussels, and marches to the enemy.
Robespierre demands that all despots
be overturned,
and that liberty be established
on the ruin of all
aristocracies.
Monsieur, regent of France, creates
the Count
d’Artois lieutenant-general
of the kingdom.
Decreed, that the palace of St.
Cyr, near
Versailles, be destroyed.
Decreed, that plate be considered
as merchandize.
La Source inveighs bitterly against
the English
government.
It is calculated, that 150 divorces
take place,
every month in Paris since the decree.
Dumourier causes the plate to be
restored to the
churches of Belgium, of which they
had been
plundered.
Buzot declaims in the tribune against
the despotism
of the convention.
10. Epoch of the counter-revolutions
in La Vendee.
The French abandon the siege of
Williamstadt.
The Austrian advanced guard enters
Tirlemont, but
are obliged again to evacuate it.
16. The States-general reward the
garrison of
Williamstadt for their gallant defence.
17. The French and Austrian armies
drawn up in order of
battle all day opposite to each
other.
18. Bloody battle of Neerswinde,
which lasts the whole
day. The French wholly defeated.
19. The battle of Tirlemont; General
Valence wounded,
and the French routed.
Dumourier suspected of treason at
Paris.
23. Battle of Louvain between the
French and Austrians.
The Prussians approach Mayence.
Dumourier demands a truce of six
days to evacuate
the Low Countries.
The Empire declares war against
France, in
consequence of a resolution of the
diet of
Ratisbon.
The Austrians enter Louvain.
Prince Cobourg
refuses a truce to Dumourier.
The Duke Frederick of Brunswick
quits the army on
account of his health.
The Prussians approach Mayence.
General Santerre solicits a discharge
from the
command of the troops of Paris,
that he may have
leisure to attend to the affairs
of his brewery.
Chenier proposes an oaken crown
as a reward for
republican generals.
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Duhem complains to the convention,
that the vessel
of state is near foundering.
Garat passes from the office of
minister of justice
to that of the interior.
Discourse of Danton, to rouse the
people en masse
(in a body.)
A constitutional priest, commanding
a battalion,
begs the convention to preserve
his rectory for him
whilst he goes to the frontiers.
The inhabitants of Frankfort write
to Custine, that
they are not willing to receive
the French
government.
Insurrection at Orleans.
24. The Austrians enter Brussels
and Mechlin.
The Prussians pass the Rhine at
St. Goar.
26. Antwerp submits to the Austrians.
The statue of Prince Charles of
Loraine, which the
insurgents overturned, is restored.
27. Namur and Mons evacuated by
the French.
The Archduke Charles appointed governor
of the Low
Countries.
Danton proposes to the convention,
that all
citizens be justified to kill any
persons who are
hostile to the revolution, wherever
they may find
them.
29. The Austrians enter Ghent.
At the end of this month, all Brabant
has returned
to the dominion of the Emperor.
Tumults and plunders in private
houses at Paris.
The convention summons Dumourier
to its bar.
The French are driven out of Worms,
and Spires.
April 2. The convention sends Bournonville,
the minister of
war, with four commissioners to
arrest Dumourier;
but he, apprized of their intentions,
seizes them,
and delivers them to the Prince
of Cobourg.
Dumourier sends General Miaczinski
to secure Lisle,
but he is suspected, and arrested
there.
The French evacuate Breda and Gertruydenberg.
Dumourier, accompanied by Gen. Valance,
and two
sons of Philip Egalite, together
with some
regiments and the military chest,
passes over to
the Austrians.
This step of Dumourier induces the
convention to
declare itself permanent.
The German princes and nobles, who
were detained
prisoners at Landau, are conveyed
to Paris as
hostages for the commissioners who
are kept by the
Austrians.
Domiciliary visits are recommended
at Paris.
Mons. de Blanchland, governor
of St. Domingo, is
guillotined at Paris, and dies with
extraordinary
firmness.
Great congress held at Antwerp by
the chiefs of the
allied armies.
Decreed, that henceforward commissioners
shall
remain with the armies, and be invested
with powers
unlimited.
Philip Egalite, his third son, his
sister, and the
Prince of Conti (sic), conducted
prisoners to
Marseilles.
The commune of Vernon is unwilling
to suffer
Madame d’Orleans to depart,
on account of her ill
heath, and they promise to answer
with their lives
for their benefactress and friend.
The Prussians prepare for the siege
of Mayence.
The creditors of Egalite fix his
annual allowance
at about 8000l. a year. His
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income is said to have
been between three and four hundred
thousand a
year.
Gen. Dampierre forms the camp of
Famars, the French
having retired from Holland.
Great debates in the convention
on the subject of a
petition from 35 sections of Paris,
against the
chiefs of the Mountain.
The English take the island of Tobago.
General Miaczinski, Compte (sic)
d’Arenberg, and le
Compte Linanges, sent to the Abbaye
at Paris, to
answer for the safety of the commissioners.
12. A long and violent tumult in
the convention,
because the members come intoxicated.
13. Marat escapes from prison,
and writes an insulting
letter to the convention; decree
of accusation
against him.
15. Thirty-five sections of Paris
demand the deposition
of Brissot, and twenty other members
of the
convention.
Marat remains concealed, but his
journal appears
every day.
Weissenau is destroyed by heavy
artillery;
Dampierre makes a vigorous resistance.
A battle
between Valenciennes and Conde.
The garrison of Lisle makes a powerful
sortie.
Dumourier is allowed no part in
the operations
against France; at Frankfort he
publishes his
contempt for Egalite, and respect
for his sons.
21. The Elector of Mayence addresses
a letter of thanks
to his subjects. The bishop
of Liege returns to
his dominions.
The French make themselves masters
of Mont-Beliard.
America declares for neutrality.
Count d’Artois goes to Petersburgh
(sic).
The Spaniards obtain considerable
advantages near
Perpignan.
The royalists of La Vendee publish
a manifesto,
against whom the convention orders
twenty thousand
men to march.
Treaty between Great-Britain and
Russia; another
between Great-Britain and Sardinia.
Great disorders at Marseilles and
Aix.
28. The archduke Charles makes
a solemn entry into
Brussels, as governor-general of
the Low Countries;
400 citizens draw his coach.
Kellerman deposed from his command
by the
convention.
The Emperor reproaches the Elector
of Bavaria with
his neutrality, in a remarkable
note.
Engagement between the French and
Austrians near
Landau.
Dampierre declares that only 800
men accompanied
Dumourier.
Marat suffers himself to be conducted
to prison.
The revolutionary tribunal acquits
Marat; he is
conducted in triumph to the convention
by the mob,
who force themselves into the seats
of the members.
The commissioners of the convention,
at Marseilles,
are obliged to fly.
The French make a brisk sally from
Mayence.
An insurrection at Breslau, raised
by a taylor,
(sic) and not suppressed without
cannon.
30. Decreed, that the revolutionary
tribunal shall be
suspended till the 1st of June next.
May 1. Dampierre gives a bloody
battle, to keep up a
communication between Conde and
Valenciennes.
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Deputies from Nantes require support
from the
convention; they announce, that
the war of La
Vendee has already cost the lives
of 2000 patriots.
3. The King of Prussia, after
several bloody fights,
with various success, drives the
French from
Costheim.
Sallies are made every day from
Valenciennes; Gen.
Mack is wounded in the arm.
Great fire in the port and magazines
of
l’Orient (sic).
Twelve hundred millions of assignats
issued.
Melancholy accounts laid before
the convention, of
the wretched state of the interior
parts of France.
6. Houchard attacks the Austrians
near Landau.
The garrison of Mayence, and the
camp of Famars,
make a sally; a number of men killed.
8. A warm attack at Costheim.
A battle also at Longwy.
This day was a day of general fighting,
in all the
armies.
9. General Dampierre dies of his
wounds. Lamarche
takes the temporary command.
10. The convention holds its first
sitting in the hall
of the Tuilleries, now called the
National Palace.
Battle of Hasnon. The convention
is disposed to
grant to Dampierre the honour of
the Pantheon; but
Danton proposed, and carried a decree,
that no one
should obtain that honour till 20
years after his
death.
7. Custine is appointed general
of the northern army.
The elector of Bavaria renounces
his neutrality,
and orders his contingent of troops
march.
General Miranda is acquitted by
the revolutionary
tribunal; and receives a civic crown
from the
people.
General Valence, who had gone over
to the Austrians
with Dumourier, is ordered to quit
the states of
the empire.
Interrogatory of Philip Egalite
at Marseilles.
The popular tribunal, of Marseilles
suspended,
because it was become more adverse
to the jacobins
since the arrival of the Bourbons.
General Miaczinski condemned to
death by the
revolutionary tribunal.
Santerre sent against the royalists
of La Vendee.
Kellerman recovers the esteem of
the convention,
and is employed again in the armies.
17. Custine attacks the Austrians
near Landau with
30,000 men, and forces them to retire.
General Wurmser repasses the Rhine.
Every day there are skirmishes near
Mayence.
Miaczinski is executed—his
depositions against
Pethion, Gensonnet, and others,
not being proved.
23. The allies attack the camp
of Famars, and the whole
line from Orchies to Maubeuge.
A bloody action
during the whole day. The
French secretly during
the night abandoned the camp of
Famars.
Riots in Paris, on account of the
arrest of Hebert,
compiler of a gazette called Le-Pere-du-Chesne.
Count d’Artois joins his brother
at Ham.
It appears that six patriotic merchants
of Holland
had promised Dumourier four millions
of florins,
provided he conquered the country.
Le Gendre proposes to exclude from
the convention
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all who voted for the appeal to
the people.
The two parties in the convention
come to actual
blows; and confusion and disorder
continue for
three hours.
The anti-jacobins obtain the upper
hand at Lyons,
and 400 persons are sacrificed.
25. Marat insults the convention.
Decreed, that any
member who shall call another villain,
or
conspirator, or such-like names,
shall be expelled
the convention. Marat instantly
violates this law.
Great tumults.
26. All printing-offices and presses,
not in the
interest of the jacobins, such as
those of Brissot,
Condorcet, Pru de l’Homme,
Rabaut, &c. are
destroyed.
27. The elector of Bavaria, after
receiving the
Emperor’s note, becomes active;
a part of his army
marches to Mayence.
30. Hebert is set at liberty.
The French from Landau
make an effort to deliver Mayence.
A bold sally is made from Mayence.
Prince Louis,
son of Prince Ferdinand, makes a
vigorous
resistance. The jacobins are
victorious in Paris.
100,000 citizens are under arms
all night. The
tocsin (alarm bell) is ringing all
day.
The forty-eight sections of Paris
demand an act of
accusation against twenty members;
among whom are,
Pethion, Brissot, Barbaroux, Chambon,
Gorsas,
Guadet, Lanjuinais, Verniaud, &c.
Six escape, and
among them is Brissot. Madame
Roland is arrested;
her husband not to be found.
The convention in horrible tumult;
and the
president (Isnard) unable to calm
it, breaks up the
sitting. The result of this
famous day was to
devote twenty-two members to the
guillotine, to
declare forty-one out of the protection
of the law,
and to imprison seventy-one.
June. A legion of French gentlemen
sails from England to
Ostend.
A party of male and female negroes
are presented to
the convention.
The generals of the French armies
are as follows:
Custine commands the army of the
North at Bouchain;
Houchard that of the Moselle, at
Sar Louis;
Beauharnols, the army of the Rhine,
at Wissenbourg;
Kellerman, that of the Alps, at
Chamberry; Brunet,
that of Italy, at Nice; De Flers,
that of the
Eastern Pyrenees, at Bayonne; Biron,
the army of
the coasts of Nantes, at Nantes;
and Wimpfer, that
of the coasts of Cantal, at Bayeux.
7. The royalists in La Vendee
obtain considerable
advantages.
Baron Trenck becomes a jacobin.
9. A bloody battle near Arlon.
The French very
numerous. General Schroeder
forced to retreat.
Arlon pillaged by the French.
Discussion in the convention about
a forced loan of
a milliard of livres.
The Prince of Waldec killed in an
attack near Lisle
at the head of the Dutch.
Severe complaints from most of the
departments
about the sitting of the 31st of
May.
Saumur and Angers taken by the royalists.
13. Manifesto from the Marseilleois
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to the French
republicans against the convention.
14. The departments of Eure and
Calvados declare that
the convention is not free.
The club of jacobins is shut up
at Aix.
De-Ferraris, general of artillery,
begins to
bombard Valenciennes.
The Prussians open trenches before
Mayence.
Marat returns to the convention
after a fortnight’s
voluntary suspension.
Plan of a republican constitution
read.
18. The revolutionary tribunal
sends eighteen persons
to the guillotine.
General Wimpfer loses the confidence
of the
convention, on account of the disorders
in
Calvados.
19. The news reaches London of
a naval action on the
18th of April between the French
and English.
The army of the Emperor is stated
to amount to
225,274 men, exclusive of artillery
and the staffs.
Des-Forges nominated minister of
foreign affairs.
Count Byland executed.
Dumourier arrives in London.
He is ordered to
leave England immediately, but in
terms of
civility.
The royalists under Gaston suffer
great losses near
Nantes.
20. Deputies assemble at Grenoble
to give a judgment
upon the proceedings of the convention
on the 31st
of May.
Ferrand, commandant of Valenciennes,
exerts himself
by every means to prevent the inhabitants
from
desiring to surrender.
Decree of accusation against Wimpfer.
23. Pethion and Lanjuinais escape.
Decree of accusation
against Brissot.
The cathedral of Mayence burnt down;
the Prussians
summon the city to surrender.
The Imperialists take Weissenau.
July 1. The Queen is informed
that she must separate
herself from her son, whose education
is committed
to Simon, a shoemaker.
Barrere reports to the assembly,
that an
insurrection has taken place in
Corsica.
8. Condorcet is denounced by Chabot.
Buzot, Barbaroux, Gorsas, Lanjuinais,
&c. are
declared traitors. Some other
members are decreed
to be in accusation.
General Sandos is delivered to the
revolutionary
tribunal.
Biron is accused of incivism.
The French are forced to evacuate
the camp of
Caesar on the Scheldt.
Conde surrenders by capitulation
to his Imperial
Majesty.
Insurrection at Lyons, and in several
other
departments.
Declaration by the chiefs of the
royal and
catholick army of La Vendee.
Admiral Truguet complains to the
convention of the
ill state of the marine.
12. Charlotte Corday assassinates
Marat; he is buried
with great ceremony in the Pantheon.
Charlotte Corday is executed.
14. The republicans in La Vendee
are defeated by the
royalists.
Deputies from St. Domingo complain
of ravages by
the commissioners Polverel and Santonax,
who are
declared to be in accusation.
Rigorous decree against Corsica.
General Paoli
declared a traitor.
The royalists continue their successes.
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23. Mayence surrenders to the Prussians.
D’Arnaud-Baculard, an eminent
writer, is
guillotined for having lodged an
emigrant in his
house.
Decreed, that every soldier shall
suffer death who
shall throw away his arms to fly
from an enemy.
Decree of accusation against Gen.
Custine.
27. General D’Oyre, the commandant
of Mayence during
the siege, and all his staff, put
under arrest by
the convention.
Valenciennes surrenders to the Duke
of York. The
Prince of Cobourg takes possession
of it for the
Emperor.
29. Tremendous hail-storms at Paris.
General Custine is sent to the Abbaye.
Decreed, that every 10th of August
shall be
celebrated as the festival of the
unity and
indivisibility of the republic.
Ordered, that every knight of St.
Louis shall
deposit his cross in his municipality.
Decreed, that no assignats, with
the late King’s
effigy, under the value of 100 livres,
shall have
in future any value, but be received
only at
present in payment of taxes.
Decreed, that all strangers in France,
especially
English, be committed to prison.
Decreed, that all forests and all
crops of corn in
La Vendee be burnt.
Decreed, that every vestige of royalty
be
destroyed.
Decreed, that the trial of the Queen
be commenced.
Decreed, that a camp of 300,000
men be formed
between Valenciennes and Paris.
The invention of the telegraph laid
before the
convention.
The effects of the India company
seized and sealed.
The members of the revolutionary
tribunal doubled,
in order that they may be able to
go through
business more expeditiously.
31. Engagement between the republicans
and Sardinians.
Motion by Danton, to pass a national
sponge over
the enormous number of assignats.
Aug. 1. The convention regulates
an uniformity of weights
and measures in the republic.
It denounces to all Europe the government
of
England.
Ordered, that the Queen be sent
to the ordinary
prison of the Conciergerie, and
given up to the
revolutionary tribunal.
Chambon moves, that all castles
be erased from the
face of the republic.
2. A fire in the arsenal of Huningen.
7. Decreed, that Pitt is the enemy
of the human race.
8. All academics and literary
societies, which had
been established by letters patent,
suppressed by
decree.
A colossal statue of liberty is
erected in the
place of that of Louis XV.
14. The new constitution accepted
by the federes.
Decreed, upon the motion of Barrere,
that the
nation will repair in mass to the
frontiers; this
was the origin of requisitions.
18. The battle of Lincelles in
favour of the allies.
The army of the convention enters
Marseilles, after
dispersing the few troops which
that city had
raised to oppose it.
Decree for a plan of education purely
republican.
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The convention charges its commissioners
to spare
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
Dunkirk.
General Dumerbian, of the army in
Italy, is
arrested.
Engagement between the royalists
and republicans.
The Duke de Bethune-Charost arrested.
14. The French attack the combined
armies in different
points near Weissembourg without
any thing
decisive.
The Duke de Nivernois and other
considerable
persons arrested.
Duhem states to the convention,
that its
philanthropy cost France 120,000
persons last year.
The number of vessels found in Toulon
by the
English was twenty-two ships of
the line and five
frigates.
15. Decreed, that every young man
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from 18 to 25 must
immediately join the army.
Menin retaken by General Beaulieu.
17. The French fail in their attempt
to pass the Rhine
at Huningen.
Decreed, that all former nobles
and relations of
emigrants, shall be considered as
suspected, and be
imprisoned.
Engagement between the Spaniards
and French; the
former retire with loss.
18. The royalists near Saumur take
the flying artillery
of the republicans.
19. The siege of Lyons is commenced.
Decreed, that all women shall carry
tickets of
civism, and wear a three-coloured
cockade.
Collot d’Herbois proposes
to seize and bury all
counter-revolutionists under the
land of liberty,
by means of mines.
Barrere proposes to banish all those
who are averse
to republican government.
20. Decreed, that the vulgar aera
(sic) be abolished,
and that a new manner be adopted
of dividing days
and years, to be called the Republican
Calendar.
The French attack the Duke of Brunswick,
and are
repulsed near Bitche; several actions
take place in
consequence.
21. Decreed, that no produce or
manufacture of England
shall be imported into France or
the colonies, but
in French bottoms; nor foreign ships
convey the
commodities of France from one French
port to
another, under pain of confiscation.
22. A great number of persons of
distinction arrested.
The King of Prussia leaves his army,
and returns to
Berlin.
The Prussians make the French to
retreat in the
dutchy (sic) of Deux-ponts.
Two thousand millions of assignats
issued.
29. Prince Cobourg passes the Sambre,
and invests
Maubeuge.
Decreed that all fathers and mothers
shall inform
where their children, in a state
of requisition,
are concealed.
Barrere proposes, that as the French
nation has
proclaimed liberty to the earth,
it should proclaim
liberty also to the sea.
Madame Du Barry, General Houchard,
General
Quetinau, and Marshal Luckner, are
prisoners in the
Abbaye.
The Duchesses of Grammont and of
Chatelet, with
many other nobles, are imprisoned
in the Hotel de
la Force.
The number of prisoners in Paris
is 2560.
The Queen remains in a dungeon of
the Conciergerie,
her trial not yet commenced; nor
that of the
deputies, who were put out of the
protection of the
law. Brissot, and others,
taken and carried to
Paris.
Oct. 1. The French obtain a victory
over the Sardinians in
the Tarentaise, and in Maurienne.
On the side of
Saorgio, the Sardinians have some
advantages over
the French.
A great number of members are arrested
in the very
convention, and delivered to the
revolutionary
tribunal.
Drouet, who stopped the King at
Varennes, falls
into the hands of the Austrians.
The constitutional bishop of Derdogne
(sic)
presents his new wife to the convention.
6. Gorsas, a member of the convention,
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is arrested in
the Palais Royal, and guillotined
in 24 hours.
Disgrace of Generals Houchard, Schomberg,
and
Landremont, who are replaced by
Jourdan, Delmas,
and Moreau.
Thuriot complains to the convention,
that Jourdan
is appointed to a command, and enjoys
public
confidence; a man of blood, fire,
and pillage,
whose name posterity will not read
without horror.
The national agent, Hebert, reduces
the prisoners
in the temple to the strictest regimen;
the Queen
is served on pewter.
8. The allies gain considerable
advantages over the
French at Toulon.
Cambon proposes to discredit specie
in order to
raise the value of assignats.
Billaud Varennes proposes the immediate
trial of
the Queen.
Arrest of all the members of the
constituent
assembly, who protested against
the constitution of
1791.
Republican women appear at the bar
of the
convention, declaring that they,
as well as men,
are conscious of their rights, and
know how to
resist oppression.
8. Lyons, after some days of siege,
is forced to
submit. Barrere moves, that
the city be destroyed,
and that a column be erected on
the spot, with
these words engraven on it, “Lyons
waged war
against liberty; Lyons is no more.”
13. The allies make themselves
masters of the Strong
and famous lines of Weissembourg.
Lauterbourg
surrenders to them next day.
All monuments of former Kings who
were buried at
St. Denis, are destroyed by order
of the
convention.
15. The Queen appears at the bar
of the revolutionary
tribunal; Fouquier, the public accuser,
reads the
list of injuries and grievances
with which she is
charged, and immediately obtains
a sentence of
death against her; she hears it
with downcast eyes,
and without uttering a word.
16. Marie Antoinette of Austria,
Queen of France, is
conveyed in a cart to the place
of execution, her
hands tied behind her back, and
with her back to
the horse’s tail. She
mounted the scaffold
quickly, amidst acclamations of
the people, which
excited only a smile of pity in
her. She looked
earnestly at the Tuilleries, and
seemed to dwell
upon the place where her children
were; before she
was fastened to the guillotine,
she threw her eyes
up to heaven, and Soon after her
head was severed
from her body.
Decreed, that the money of France
be changed into
francs of gold and of silver, and
into republicans.
Work-houses established to prevent
begging.
General Ferrand, writing to the
convention an
account of his exploits in Arragon
and Catalonia,
says, that he expects to plant the
tree of liberty
on the walls of Madrid next campaign.
Prince Cobourg, attacked by the
French, raises the
siege of Maubeuge, and repasses
the Sambre.
17. The French are successful in
Piedmont.
It is announced to the convention,
that the
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intruding bishop of Moulins officiated
in a red
bonnet, and with a pike instead
of the cross and
mitre.
Every external sign of religion
is abolished. The
inscription on burying places is,
“that death is
“only an eternal sleep.”
22. Andre Dumont informs the convention
from Abbeville,
that he was making the cross and
crucifix to
disappear. “I shall
comprehend in my proscription
“all those black animals called
priests.”
The convention orders, that the
news of the
conquest of La Vendee be sent to
all the
departments.
24. The royalists again appear,
and gain great
advantage over the republicans.
Decreed, that every city which surrenders
without
standing one assault shall be razed
to the ground.
Permission granted to women to regulate
their
fortune, as well as their husbands.
The number of prisoners in Paris
amounts to 4000.
The French attack the allies for
six days
successively; always bringing up
fresh troops;
constantly repulsed, they still
return and take
possession of the post, if possible,
at any
expence.
27. New decree against priests.
The French lose 3000 men in two
actions; one
against Wurmser, and a second against
the
Prussians.
The royalists of La Vendee compleatly
(sic) defeat
the French republicans.
The French, who had taken Menin,
Courtray, Furnes,
who besieged Nieuport, and threatened
Ostend, are
obliged to retire, and evacuate
all they had got in
Brabant.
The commissioners at Lyons write,
that 800 workmen
are labouring to demolish the city,
pursuant to an
order of the convention. Lyons
was the second city
of France.
30. The Duke of York retakes Marchiennes,
and makes
1629 prisoners.
31. Twenty-one members of the convention
guillotined in
37 minutes, viz. Brissot,
Verniaud, Duprat, Valaze,
Gensonnet, Le Hardy, Ducos, Boyer,
Fonfrede,
Boileau, Gardier, Du Chastel, Sillery,
Fauchet,
Duperret, La Source, Carra, Beauvais,
Mainville,
Antiboul, Vegee, and La Case.
The royalists of La Vendee take
the island of
Noirmoutier.
Nov. 1. Egalite conveyed from
Marseilles to the prison of
the Conciergerie in Paris.
A column of Vendeans passes the
Loire at Ancenis.
Two actions between the Spaniards
and French; the
latter lose between five and six
thousand men.
A member proposes to guillotine
all farmers and
labourers that monopolize.
Decreed, that all lead, iron, copper,
and bells of
churches, shall be applied to the
use of the war.
The British ambassador presses the
Grand Duke of
Tuscany to join the allies.
Decreed, that natural children shall
share
inheritances equally with legitimate;
provided the
parents have no other husband or
wife.
Spoils and plunder of the churches
are daily sent
to the convention.
The grand master of Malta takes
part with the
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allies against France.
Philip Egalite (formerly Duke of
Orleans) is
guillotined upon the scaffold to
which he brought
his unfortunate King.
Lidon, a member of the convention,
shoots himself.
Complaints from all parts of want
of bread. The
inhabitants declare they have only
a quarter of a
pound of bread each a day.
Bailly, first mayor of Paris, guillotined.
General Beaulieu defeats the French,
and forces
them to retreat to Philipville.
Ordered, that farmers of the national
domains pay
their rents in kind.
Some persons are ordered to take
away by night the
shrine of St. Genevieve, the patroness
of Paris,
and whom the Parisians always respected
peculiarly;
it is carried to the Mint.
7. Gabet and his constitutional
clergy renounce in the
convention the sacerdotal character.
Madame Roland is condemned to death
and executed
the same day, with five municipal
officers of
Pont-de-Ce.
11. Festival of Reason, in the
cathedral of Paris.
A woman is appointed to receive
the homage there
which is denied to the Deity.
12. The royalists of La Vendee
continue their
successes.
The Piedmontese still unsuccessful,
losing their
camp and stores at La Magdeleine.
The national vengeance is at length
glutted with
the blood of the inhabitants of
Lyons; between 2
and 3000 persons have been massacred
by tying them
together, and firing upon them with
case-shot; and
the sabre finished those whose wounds
were not
mortal.
Fort-Louis surrenders to the allies.
200 persons
are guillotined at Strasbourg for
hesitating to pay
their proportion of a sum ordered
to be raised in
that city within 24 hours.
Collot d’Herbois and Foucher,
commissioners at
Lyons, write, that the work of destruction
goes on
too slow. Mines and fires are
necessary to forward
the demolition of so great a city.
The allies make a sally from Toulon,
kill 2000
French, destroy the works, and take
eleven pieces
of cannon.
Manuel and Cassy, members of the
convention, and
Generals Houchard and Brunet, are
guillotined.
18. Thuriot, Chabot, Bazire, L’Aunay,
all deputies, are
imprisoned. Chamfont cuts
his throat. Several
actions near Bitche, between the
French and
Prussians; the latter are forced
to retire.
On the other hand the French lose
8000 men in an
action against Wurmser.
The Sardinians after two actions
are forced to
retreat.
Monsieur Lavordy, formerly comptroller
of finances,
guillotined.
26. The Vendeans beat the republicans,
and take the
post of Austrain.
The Sardinians under General Brentano
repulse the
French.
The Spaniards obtain a victory.
Chambon, member of the convention,
mayor of Paris
at the King’s massacre, is
put out of the
protection of the law, and killed
by the
inhabitants of Tulle, among whom
he had taken
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refuge.
Gen. La Morbiere is guillotined.
27. The royalists of La Vendee
take several towns in
Brittany; on the 19th they take
Granville, but
evacuate it.
Barnave, a deputy to the first assembly,
one of
the, authors of the revolution,
and Duport, then
minister of justice, guillotined.
29. Project to erect a monument
upon the Pont-Neuf,
representing the people as giants.
The convention receives from all
parts the letters
of priesthood from the intruders.
Decreed, that a municipal officer
with a red bonnet
shall inter the dead.
Robespierre declaims against the
eagerness with
which they set about the work of
destroying
religion.
A deputation of women appears at
the bar with the
red bonnet.
Decree, offering rewards to every
abjuring priest.
At Rochefort and other cities the
pictures and
books of the churches are burned.
St. Domingo taken by the English.
The orator of the students of the
republican school
comes to the bar, to assure the
convention that he
and his comrades detest God.
Remonstrances of Mr. Drake, the
British minister,
to the Senate of Genoa on the subject
of
neutrality.
A member informs the convention
that ten thousand
firelocks are made in Paris daily.
Decreed, that a colossal statue
be erected in Paris
46 feet high, with the rights of
man and the
constitutional act for a pedestal.
Furious declamation of Robespierre
against the
British government.
30. General O’Hara, commander
at Toulon, taken prisoner
by the French.
The inhabitants of Marly send to
the convention all
the precious effects of the palace
of Marly, and
all the iron of the famous works
of that place.
Decreed, that all the lakes and
marshes of the
republic be dried, and sowed with
grain of various
sorts.
Dec. 1. The Jacobins of Nantes
drown 90 priests destined
for Guiana, by sinking the ship
in which they were
embarked.
Madame du Barry, the Duke Chatelet,
the two
Rabauts, members of the convention,
Kersaint and
Noel, members also, are all guillotined.
The
ex-minister Claviere kills himself
in prison.
One hundred and fifty persons guillotined
at
Dunkirk.
The festival of an ass celebrated
at Lyons, in
derision of religious worship.
Collot d’Herbois informs the
convention of the
massacres which he has executed
at Lyons.
The right wing of the Austrian army
takes 1200
prisoners, and kills 1700.
The Prince of Conde takes 7 cannon,
and kills 1300
men.
The Duke of Brunswick kills takes
and (sic) 6000
men.
3. Wurmser defeats the army opposed
to him, kills
10,000, and makes 5,000 prisoners.
4. The French evacuate Deux-Ponts,
having lost immense
numbers of men and of artillery.
Raymond le Veuve is guillotined
at Bourdeaux (sic).
The French attack the Austrian and
Prussian armies
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almost daily, and are constantly
repulsed with
loss.
11. The French, notwithstanding
their constant losses
continue to attack the lines of
the allies. They
lose 5000 in an attack near Haguenau.
Valadi is discovered and guillotined.
12. The royalists are defeated
with great loss near
Mans.
In an action near La Guerche, the
Vendeans kill
7000 republicans, and take their
artillery.
Birateau, member of the convention,
guillotined at
Bourdeaux.
The festival of reason celebrated
in all cities of
France, as in Paris.
Madame de Villette, niece of Voltaire,
dies on the
scaffold.
14. The French make an attack on
the posts of the
allies on the side of Courtray,
and are repulsed.
The general, with his aid-du-camp
(sic) and staff
to the number of 25, are arrested
at Lisle.
16. The French again attack the
lines of Gen. Wurmser,
and are again repulsed with great
loss.
18. The royalists of La Vendee
are again victorious
near Concale.
Toulon is retaken by the republicans,
its name is
changed on the motion of Barrere,
to that of the
“Port of the Mountain.”
Letter of Chabot from the prison
of the Luxemburg
to the convention.
20. The Duke of Brunswick, near
Weissembourg defeats
the French army, kills 10,000, and
takes their camp
and baggage with 47 pieces of artillery.
Rejoicings in Paris on account of
the retaking of
Toulon.
The French, after having so often
attacked the
allies with great loss, and returned
as often to
harrass (sic) them still, at length
carry their
point. They take 16 cannon,
kill 500 men, and
recover the strong lines of Weissembourg.
27. The allies raise the siege
of Landau.
1794.
Jan. 1. The representatives of
the people, in order to get
rid of prisoners in La Vendee direct
that all of
them be thrown into the Loire.
2. The island of Noirmoutier is
retaken by the
republicans; 800 royalists are killed
and 1200 are
made prisoners.
3. The old marshal Luckner, and
the son of General
Custine, guillotined.
4. Eight hundred emigrants perish
in crossing the
Rhine.
The States of Brabant require great
contributions
for the expence of the war.
Bourdon de L’Oise complains,
that the minister is
still too monarchical, and he demands
that one
purely republican be appointed.
The Prince of Talmond, one of the
chiefs of the
royalists, is taken by the republicans
near
Fougeres. The remains of his
army joins the
Chouans.
The Chouans, who now begin to be
distinguished, are
so called from two brothers, gentlemen
of that
name, who were particularly active
in levying
troops in Brittany for the service
of the
royalists.
6. Mons. d’Espremenil,
a counsellor of the parliament
of Paris, and an ex-constituent,
thrown into
prison.
General Cartaux sent to the Conciergerie.
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Chambon, comptroller of finances,
complains that
printing the names of emigrants
on large paper is
too expensive, and moves that the
small octavo be
used.
Decree of accusation against Roncin
and Rossignol,
generals of the republic in La Vendee.
The revolutionary tribunal of Lyons,
to please the
people, burns in effigy the Emperor,
the Kings of
England, Spain, Prussia, and Sardinia,
Mr. Pitt,
and the Pope. The city of
Toulon is also burnt in
the representation of a woman.
La Mourette, intruding bishop of
Lyons, guillotined.
Herbert is convicted of having received
from the
national treasury, for his journal
“Le Pere du
Chesne,” in June 1793, 123,000
livres, and in
October 60,000 livres.
11. Thomas Payne and Anacharsis
Cloots imprisoned in
the Luxemburg.
Ordered by the jacobin club of
Paris, that all
sarcasms and philippics, uttered
in their tribune
against the government and constitution
of England,
be printed and sent to the patriots
in the three
kingdoms.
The convention decrees, that all
inscriptions on
monuments shall be in the French
language.
Decreed, that all property real
and personal of the
farmers-general shall belong to
the nation.
Pondicherry surrenders to the British.
The president of the convention
reads a letter from
Vitre. “The souls of
most of the royalists have
“been sent to the Eternal
Father; we are every day
“destroying the Chouans, those
infernal banditti.”
The French are active in restoring
the lines of
Weissembourg to cover the siege
of Fort-Louis.
The Baron Latude guillotined; he
had lived many
years in the Bastille, and was called
the proof and
victim of despotism.
The committee of public safety remove
Simon, the
shoemaker, from the office of tutor
and preceptor
to the son of Louis XVI. confined
in the Temple;
and resolve that there is no need
of any other in
his place.
A manufacture is offered to the
convention of
cloth made of two-thirds hair.
19. The chimney-sweepers request
of the convention the
release of Abbe Fenelon, who had
been a father to
them during 60 years.
21. The anniversary of the death
of Louis XVI. is
declared in the convention a day
of glory.
Between the 13th of December and
the 24th of
January, 325 persons were guillotined
at Lyons, and
330 shot.
Generals Wurmser and the Duke of
Brunswick are
succeeded by Generals Braun and
Moellendorff.
The female citizen Chapuis, daughter
of the
general, demands to serve as a dragoon.
The Count d’Artois sends his
diamonds to Marshal
Broglio for the use of emigrants.
Motion by Rhul against the Elector
of Bavaria.
A deputation of Americans demand
the release of
their countryman Thomas Payne.
The president
replies that he is an Englishman.
27. Decreed, that all castles in
conquered countries
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which cannot be used as hospitals
shall be burned.
Decreed, that sixty-two millions
of assignats shall
be at the disposition of the war-minister
29. every month. And that 95,000
cavalry be raised for
the next spring.
30. Upwards of three thousand peasants,
prisoners from
La Vendee, are guillotined or shot
at Nantes.
31 Perigord Tayleyrand, bishop of Autun,
ordered to
leave England.
Feb. 1. Mons. La Borde, the
former court banker, and father
of La Borde de Merville, an ex-constituent,
is
forced to purchase his liberty with
a large sum of
money.
The opera of “Toute la Grece”
is in great
vogue—the story of it
is, that Philip, seeing all
Greece rising in a mass, begs for
peace; Greece
refuses to make peace with a King.
Report to the convention, that excellent
soap is
made of potatoes.
4. Slavery abolished in all the
colonies.
Pichegru appointed commander of
the army of the
North in the room of Jourdan.
The treasurer Cambon states to the
convention that
last year 4,885,764 livres were
coined of copper
and bell-metal.
A deputation of blacks appears at
the bar to be
received as brethren.
Decreed, that every officer and
soldier, of
whatever rank, shall have an equal
quantity of
provisions, a man having but one
stomach.
7. The 48 sections of Paris appear
at the bar to
protest against any suspension of
arms.
All mints for coining money suppressed,
except that
of Paris.
The commune of Chamberry sends to
the convention
twelve thousand marks [Footnote:
Eight ounces
each.] of silver, together with
the sword of Prince
Eugene, five feet long.
Manifesto of the Germanic body to
justify the war
with France.
The Prince of Talmond and fourteen
priests
guillotined.
One of the two brothers, of La Vendee,
from whom
the Chouans took their name, is
killed by the
republicans.
A bloody quarrel between the republican
and
revolutionary soldiers of the French
army.
The Vendeans obtain advantages at
Cholet.
The Duke and Duchess of Luynes,
and Mons de
Montmorency, an ex-constituent,
imprisoned.
A work is published under the sanction
of the
convention, proving that the national
domains, that
is, the estates of the king (sic),
the nobles, the
clergy, and the emigrants, are worth
twenty
milliards of livres.
Deputies from the county of Mot
Belliard demand its
union with France.
The old name of Marseilles is restored;
it had been
forfeited by a decree, and was called
“Sans-nom.”
18. The Abbe Maury is promoted
to the dignity of
cardinal.
Troops sent from Paris to La Vendee
receive orders
to travel fourteen leagues a day.
20. Thomas Payne claims protection
of the club of
Cordeliers, who return for answer
the vote he gave
on the King’s trial.
Mons. du Chaffault, lieut.-general
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of marines, an
officer of great services and high
estimation, is
massacred in Poitou at the age of
eighty-five
years.
The convention, on the motion of
Barrere, decree a
political lent, in order to leave
the more animal
food for the sick and aged.
A petition from Burgundy demands
the death of young
Capet.
Death of Cardinal de Lomenie du
Brienne, one of the
earliest promoters of the revolution.
St. Just makes a motion, the object
of which is, to
excite the people to murder and
vengeance, for 1200
years of crimes which had been committed
against
them.
Motion by Danton for an agrarian
law.
26. Report upon La Vendee.
It consists of sixteen
departments of forty square leagues,
between the
Loire and the sea, from Painboeuf
to Saumur.
The sister of Mirabeau is reduced
to solicit alms
of the convention.
March. Several sections of Paris
complain to the
convention of a scarcity of provisions.
Decreed, that all the property of
priests, either
banished or imprisoned, be confiscated
for the use
of the state.
Danton makes a flaming republican
speech to the
convention.
All horses of the plough put in
requisition.
The number of prisoners in Paris
amount to 6100.
9. The minister of justice proposes
to institute a
committee of insurrection, to overturn
all the
monarchies of Europe.
The sale of the property of emigrants
amounted in
the year 1793 only to twenty millions
of livres,
not half the real value of the estates
of one
emigrant alone, the Duke de Montmorency.
The number of victims destroyed
by the guillotine
or grape-shot at Lyons, to this
date, amounted to
somewhat more than five thousand.
Populus, an ex-constituent, guillotined
at Lyons.
The clubs of the jacobins and cordeliers
form an
alliance.
At Nevers seventy-four priests,
who refuse to take
the oath, are guillotined.
At Dijon fourteen
nobles suffer the same fate, because
they used the
titles of Count and Baron.
The merchants of Bourdeaux are all
arrested on the
same day, and condemned to the guillotine;
but are
permitted to redeem their lives
by paying one
hundred millions of livres, to which
they are
forced to submit.
14. Robespierre invents a conspiracy,
or pretended
treason, in order to secure his
authority.
The wife of Momoro, who had played
the part of
first goddess of reason, guillotined.
All strangers are banished from
Paris.
The Vendeans are beat on the left
bank of the Loire
by General Cordelier.
The convention states the expences
of 1793 to be at
the rate of four hundred millions
of livres a month.
15. Hebert and his partizans (sic)
are arrested. The
jacobins betray the cordeliers.
17. Herault de Sechelles guillotined.
21. The Emperor forbids his subjects
to make any
payments in France.
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24. The island of Martinico submits
wholly to the
English.
A secret is laid before the convention
of removing
the impression of ink from paper,
and of rendering
it as new.
Wives of emigrants forbid to marry
foreigners.
Eight thousand men sent to La Vendee.
The revolutionary army is disbanded.
Means discovered to expel foul air,
by burning
common salt moistened with oil of
vitriol.
30. The brother of Abbe (now Cardinal)
Maury
guillotined at Avignon.
31. Jourdan appointed commander
in chief of the army of
the Moselle.
Barrere exclaims against atheism
and irreligious
principles.
April 5. Danton, Camille des Moulins,
Fabre d’Eglantine, De
l’Aulnay, Chabot, La Croix,
Philippeau, Bazire, and
Julien, all voters for the King’s
death, delivered
to the revolutionary tribunal, and
guillotined.
Danton, when asked his name and
quality, replied,
“a being now that in a few
hours will be a
non-entity.”
Camille des Moulins, being required
to tell his
age, replied, “the same as
the sans-culottes Jesus,
“34 years.”
Westerman, who stiled (sic) himself
the conqueror
of royalists, the Abbe d’Espagnac,
and many others,
are guillotined.
7. Formal entry of the Emperor
into Brussels.
Decreed, that the executive council
be suppressed,
as incompatible with republican
government.
Chambon states the expence, extraordinary
and
revolutionary, 1,600,000,000 livres.
A deputation at the bar of the assembly
demands,
that death be the order of the day.
The prisoners in Paris amount to
6763.
Dumas, a deputy, pretends to point
out a method of
knowing a counter-revolutionist
by his physiognomy.
St. Lucia taken by the English.
9. Gobet, intruding bishop of
Paris, guillotined.
The honours of the pantheon voted
to Rousseau.
12. The city of Oneglia taken by
the French.
St. Just, in the convention, asks
the question
“What is a King compared with
a French citizen?”
14. The allies repulse the French
on the Lys.
The daughter of Sultan Achmet III.
who had fled
into France, and found refuge there
during 64
years, obtains alms of the convention,
viz. 6oo
livres, (about 25l. sterling.)
18. Laborde, a wealthy banker who
had several times
redeemed his life by large sums
of money, is
guillotined.
The principal members of the parliaments
of Paris,
and of Toulouse, are guillotined.
20. The woods of Vitre and Rennes
burned to dislodge
the royalists.
21. Gen. Beaulieu beats the French
at Arlon.
22. Guadaloupe taken by the English.
The old Mons. de Malsherbes,
one of the generous
defenders of Louis XVI. guillotined.
24. The allies beat the French
near Cambray.
26. The Duke of York takes 35 pieces
of cannon, and a
French general; he kills 5000 men,
and makes 3000
prisoners.
To facilitate the sale of the lands
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of emigrants,
they are divided into lots of three
hundred livres
each, and twenty years credit given.
28. The French seize Courtray the
day of the annual
fair, and get a great booty.
29. General Clairfait gains a considerable
advantage,
killing 3000 men, and taking several
cannon.
30. Landrecy surrenders to the
Emperor with a garrison
of 6ooo men.
In this month were executed, besides
those
mentioned already, Monsieur d’Espremenil,
Chaumette, procureur of the commune
of Paris, Gen.
Arthur Dillon, Hebert and Simon,
deputies, Gen.
Roncin, Momoro, Anarcharsis Cloots,
a deputy, Du
Buisson, Goutte, an intruding bishop,
Gen. Beisser,
the Marquis of Chateau Briant, the
Duchesses of
Chatelet and Grammont, the Viscountess
de
Pont-Ville, Thouret and Chapellier,
two very active
revolutionists.
Kosciusko puts himself at the head
of a revolution
in Poland.
May 1. In the prisons of Paris
22,000 persons are
confined, and in all the departments
of France
653,000.
The Duke de Biron, upon sentence
of death being
passed upon him by the revolutionary
tribunal,
cried out, “I deserve it,
for having betrayed my
“King and served his enemies.”
The Count du l’Aigle, being
also condemned, said to
the people, “It is not my
head, it is bread and
“your King that you ought
to demand.”
Decreed, that all royal houses shall
be kept for
the use and enjoyment of the people.
10. Robespierre obtains decrees
to admit the existence
of a Supreme Being, and of the immortality
of the
soul; and for the establishment
of decadary
festivals.
In La Vendee, General Haxo, after
the example of
General Moulin, blows his brains
out, to avoid
being taken prisoner.
All letters coming into France are
opened.
From the 29th of April to the 4th
of May, 109
persons are guillotined in Paris,
and many more in
the departments.
In the valley of Aost, 6000 French
were killed by
the peasants of Piedmont.
Barrere announces the capture of
a Spanish camp,
with two hundred cannon, and two
thousand men.
All the farmers-general are accused
in a mass, and
sent to the revolutionary tribunals,
The town of Sargio and Piedmontese
camp taken by
the French.
11. Seventy-one persons, among
whom are 27
farmers-general, are guillotined.
Madame Elizabeth, sister of the
late King, is
carried before the revolutionary
tribunal and
interrogated, " What is your name?”
“Elizabeth
“Philippine Marie Helene de
France.”
“Your quality?” “Aunt
of the King.” These last
words are scarcely pronounced, when
the tribunal
condemns her to death.
12. The next day she is conducted
to the scaffold, with
25 persons who were guillotined
in her presence; it
being directed that she should suffer
the last.
She died at the age of thirty years,
and left a
character of unblemished purity.
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Decreed, that all aged and infirm
priests be kept
in houses belonging to the republic.
Report upon mendacity. Decreed,
that the
convention will efface the name
of beggary and
poverty from the annals of the republic.
The town and citadel of Bastia taken
by the
English.
The commune of Sens writes to the
convention, that
it has dug up all the bodies of
the Capets that
were interred in their cathedral,
in order to bury
them in ordinary ground.
An address to the French nation
is prepared by
Barrere, and published by the convention,
concluding with these words:
“Let the English
“slaves perish, and let Europe
be free.”
13. Revolutionary tribunals suppressed,
except that of
Paris.
14. L’Huillier kills himself
in prison, and Rebecqui
drowns himself—both active
agents in the massacres
of Avignon, and of the 2d of September.
15. Kaunitz forces the French to
repass the Sambre with
the loss of 5000 men.
18. The Duke of York, with 3500
men, is attacked by
15000 French, and forced to retreat.
General Beaulieu, near Bouillon,
kills 3000 French,
and takes 700.
22. Battle near Tournay, lasts
16 hours; the French
lose 12,000 men, and the allies
3000.
A French army of 10,000 men penetrates
into
Luxembourg.
24. Kaunitz takes 80 cannon, kills
2000 French, and
takes 3000.
Insurrection of the patriots at
Liege.
The Emperor quits the army, and
returns to Vienna.
29. Battle of Germersheim; the
French lose 400 killed,
and 600 taken prisoners.
A plot to assassinate Robespierre
and Collot
d’Herbois fails of success;
the former obtains a
guard for his person.
June 1. The British fleet under
Lord Howe engages the
French; the latter loses eight sail
of the line.
2. The convention decrees, that
no Englishman or
Hanoverian shall be made prisoner
in battle—no
quarter to be given, but all without
reserve to be
put to the sword.
The Duke of York communicates this
barbarous decree
to his army, in a manner that does
honour to a
soldier and to a man.
The guillotine is destroyed by the
people at St.
Brieux, and the revolutionary tribunal
expelled.
4. The French are routed near
Charleroy with the loss
of 4000 men.
The man who saved Collot d’Herbois
from
assassination, obtains a pension
of 1500 livres a
year.
Decreed, that the members of the
convention, when
on duty, shall wear marks of distinction.
Proclamation of the Emperor to induce
all Brabant
to rise in a mass.
A military school is instituted
in the plain of
Sablons near Paris.
Decreed, that a new grammar be published,
to give
to the language of liberty a character
that is
suitable to it.
8. Jourdan, called Coupe-tete,
general of the army at
Avignon, guillotined.
The son and daughter of Louis XVI.
employed to make
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shoes and shirts for the nation.
10. General Clairfait is obliged
to retreat.
The French take Port-Vendre, Collieure,
and St.
Elme.
13. A festival to the Eternal.
Robespierre acts the
part of Pontiff. The ceremony
is designed to
satisfy the people, by putting an
end to atheism.
The members of the convention assume
the
distinction of a plume of feathers
in the hat, and
a three-coloured scarf.
The French army in Maritime Flanders
amounts to
170,000 men.
The inviolability of the members
of the convention
is renewed.
A large convoy from America with
corn arrives in
France.
16. The French lose 7,000 men
in an action near
Charleroy.
Ypres surrenders to the French—this
conquest opens
all Brabant.
The numerous forces opposed to the
allies oblige
them to retreat.
20. One milliard two hundred and
five millions of
livres in assignats issued.
Port-au-Prince taken by the English.
The dread of the guillotine causes
fifty thousand
persons to emigrate.
21. Commencement of a quarrel between
Robespierre and
Bourdon de l’Oise, and another
between Tallien and
Robespierre.
Ninety-four nuns transported to
Africa.
Twenty-one members of the parliament
of Toulouze
(sic) guillotined at Paris.
26. Every thing in France is put
in requisition, men,
horses, provisions, and all sorts
of property.
28. Some terrible conspiracy is
supposed, and announced
to the public in order to authorise
new massacres.
“Paris,” says Barrere,
“shall be henceforth the
“city with a hundred gates;
each gate shall
“announce some triumph, or
some revolutionary,
“epoch”.
29. The French besiege Charleroy.
The number of persons guillotined
this month is as
follows. From the first to
the ninth of June, 100
On
the 9th, 22
10th,
30
11th,
33
12th,
8
13th,
20
From
14 to 17th 103
17
to 20th 50
On
the 21st, 26
22d,
14
25th,
48
27th,
29
Total guillotined in Paris in the
month of June 483
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
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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
jacobin
club; Simon, preceptor of the young Prince;
upwards
of eighty municipal officers; one Deputy, a
commissioner
with the army, and one general
officer,
all partizans of Robespierre.
Tallien
proclaims in the convention, that the day
of
the tyrant’s death is a festival for universal
fraternity.
From
the 1st to the 19th of July were guillotined
in
Paris, in all 406 persons.
On
the 20th, 34
21st,
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29
22d,
46
24th,
30
From
25th to 27th 135
28th,
22
29th,
70
Total
guillotined in July 772
Aug. 1. At this time the guillotine
remains unemployed.
The
convention charges sixteen committees with the
management
of public affairs.
2.
The Spaniards are defeated—The French take
Fontarabia
and St. Sebastian.
Pichegru,
with 190,000 men, is commanded to conquer
Holland.
3.
Prince Cobourg calls upon the States of Germany to
assemble
and oppose with unanimity the alarming
mass
of French troops which is on the point of
breaking
in upon them.
5.
The convention abolishes Robespierre’s system
of
terror.
Brussels
gives a civic feast on account of its
union
with France.
The
French enter Treves, and summon Breda.
Pelet
solicits the convention for the return of
order,
of justice, and of commerce.
10.
The English take possession of Calvi.
11.
The states-general earnestly exhort the Dutch to
defend
themselves.
13.
A general release of prisoners confined in France
by
order of Robespierre—they amounted to upwards
of
500,000.
Quesnoy
retaken by the French, with 3000 men.
The
telegraph first made use of.
15.
An ambassador from America receives the fraternal
kiss.
26.
L’Ecluse surrenders by capitulation to the French.
Ordered,
that all persons may travel freely without
passports
in the interior of the republic.
The
new ambassador from Geneva received in the
convention.
29.
Valenciennes surrenders; its garrison consisted of
8ooo
men, of whom 1100 were emigrants.
30.
Conde surrenders to the French.
Freron
and Tallien propose measures of moderation,
that
is, a system opposite to that of terror.
Sept. 1. The Emperor threatens
to withdraw his troops, if
the
circles of Germany do not support him better.
The
academy cf arts and sciences of Paris discovers
a
method of making pot-ash from the horse-chesnut
(sic).
Bois-le-Duc
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and Breda inundated.
The
convention passes some decrees favourable to
the
emigrants.
5.
Rochelle and Montfort denounce the nobles and
priests.
6.
An orator of one of the electoral clubs of Paris
presents
a petition, which he is unable to read.
Bertier
acquaints the convention that he has set at
liberty
all prisoners in the North under 15 years
of
age.
The
convention receives numerous congratulations on
the
death of Robespierre.
Tallien
resigns his seat as member of the committee
of
public safety.
Motion
of Barrere against bankers and stockjobbers.
An
attempt is made to assassinate Tallien, but he
escapes
with some severe wounds.
10.
The flag of the republic of Geneva is received into
the
convention.
Merlin,
of Thionville, makes an animated speech in
the
convention against the jacobins.
The
two ruling parties in the convention are, the
partizans
of terror, called the Mountain. and the
Moderates.
Protests
and placarts (sic) are stuck up in all
parts
of Paris against the despotism of the
convention.
11.
The convention decrees that all those shall be
subject
to the laws against emigrants, who quitted
France
since the 1st of July 1789, and did not
return
before 9th of May 1792.
Decreed,
that the nation will pay no more salaries
to
ministers, or others officiating in any
religious
worship.
Motion
by Duhem to expel all that remains of the
family
of Capet from the territory of the republic.
Report
of Lindet on the state of France, in which
are
marked its dangers, errors, and disasters.
The
Spaniards are forced to give up the important
city
of Bellegard to the French at discretion.
12.
The Piedmontese are repulsed with considerable
loss.
13.
Great commotions at Marseilles.
15.
Ordered, that the remains of Marat be interred in
the
Pantheon.
16.
The British and Hanoverians pass the Rhine with
some
loss. The Duke of York retires to Nimeguen.
Ceremonies
established for the observance of the
days
called “Sans-culottides,” which are the
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supplementary
days of the republican calendar.
General
Clairfait marches towards Cologn (sic), and
passes
the Roar (sic).
The
French invest Maestricht, and take possession
of
Aix-la-Chapelle, Malmedi, and Spa.
Balloons
are used by the French to make
observations
of their enemy’s proceedings.
Twenty-nine
waggons loaded with gold and silver, to
the
value of 18,359,404 livres are brought to Paris
from
Belgium.
The
throne of the Elector of Treves is among the
spoils.
25.
A national festival is celebrated at Paris on
account
of the evacuation of the French territory
by
the enemy.
27.
Crevecoeur surrenders by capitulation to the
French.
30.
The allies still continue to retreat.
Decreed,
that all directories and all municipal
bodies
of the republic shall be purified; and all
revolutionary
committees reorganized.
Oct. 1. General Clairfait passes
the Rhine.
Keyserslautern
taken by the Prussians.
3.
The French enter Juliers. The body of Rousseau
transferred
to the Pantheon.
4.
Bommel and Bois-le-Duc surrender to the French.
The
garrison of Nimeguen sallies, and kills 2000
French.
Proclamation
of the Prince of Orange, exhorting the
Dutch
to resist the enemy in a body (en masse.)
5.
Lyons permitted to resume its name—confiscation,
and
massacres are suspended there.
6.
The convention addresses the French people to
acquaint
them that henceforward the order of the
day
shall be “severe, but not atrocious or
“sanguinary
justice.”
Pichegru
makes himself master of Cologne, Gueldres,
and
Cleves.
French
soldiers who died this campaign in the
hospitals
at Lisle, amount to 47,000.
The
English pass the Rhine. The French enter
Bonne
(sic).
The
chiefs of the royal and catholic armies in
Bretagne
make a solemn appeal, to the French
people,
to incite them to rally about the standards
of
religion and of the King.
The
following contributions were levied by the
French
in Brabant:
Livres.
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At Antwerp 10,000,000
Ghent 7,000,000
Brussels 5,000,000
Bruges 4,000,000
Mechlin 1,260,076
Lierre 500,000
Oudenarde 500,000
Ipres 1,000,000
Alost 4,000,000
Ostend 2,000,000
Courtray 3,000,000
Ath 150,000
Mons 1,640,875
Louvain 2,000,000
Namur 5,000,000
Huy 126,171
Total 51,177,122
12. The Russians
entirely defeat the Poles under
Kosciusko, and take Warsaw.
The French take Worms; and pass
the Rhine.
20. The British and Dutch defeated
on the banks of the
Meuse.
25. The French take Coblentz and
Venloo.
Six thousand young women put in
requisition in
Brabant to attend the hospitals.
The states of Holland openly abandon
the interests
of the Stadtholder.
Great numbers of emigrants shot
at Ipres, Neuport,
and l’Ecluse.
Freron, the journalist, attacks
furiously in the
convention the remains of Robespierre’s
party.
Proclamation by General Washington
to check the
buds of rebellion in America.
Assignats burned to the 30th of
September last,
amounted to 2,367,000,000 livres.
All public ordinances by the representatives
of the
people begin in this form, “The
thunder of God: in
“the name of the representatives
of the people, it
“is commanded under pain of
death, &c.”
Address from the court of Madrid
to stimulate the
Spanish nation against the French.
Motion by Baraillon to imprison
all those who have
had national property conveyed to
them under its
value, and those who have laid waste
the lands and
houses of emigrants and of condemned
persons; and
all those who have misapplied public
money.
Decree to abolish the jacobin club.
Nov. 4. Rhinfeld surrenders at
discretion; Maestricht by
capitulation.
Nimeguen surrenders.
French commissaries proclaim liberty
at Martinico.
Billaud Varennes endeavours in vain
to revive the
jacobins.
The convention offers full pardon
to the rebels of
La Vendee who will lay down their
arms and serve
the republic.
Guadaloupe is retaken by the French.
Cambon reports that assignats in
circulation amount
to 6,400,000,000 of livres, and
the expence of the
present year to 2,200,000,000 livres.
Addresses of congratulation from
all parts on the
overthrow of the jacobins.
17. The Spaniards defeated by the
French.
Republican General Dugommier killed.
20. The Spaniards again defeated—three
generals taken.
St. Fernard, Figueras, and Aspaetta,
surrender.
30. Grave surrenders to the French.
Carrier and his bloody accomplices
decreed to be in
a state of accusation.
Decreed, that all emigrants be for
ever banished
from the republic, their property
confiscated, and
their return punished with death.
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Dec. 1. The French make several
unsuccessful attempts on
the side of Mayence, but are repulsed
with loss.
7. Ten members of the revolutionary
committee of
Paris, convicted of peculation (sic)
and abuse of
power, are condemned to twenty years
imprisonment,
and to stand six hours in the pillory
at the Place
de Greve, the place of common executions.
The municipality of Nantes forbid
all persons to
drink the water of the river Loire,
on account of
the infection from the dead bodies
which were
victims of Carrier’s cruelty.
8. The seventy-one members who
had been proscribed by
Robespierre resume their seats in
the convention.
11. The French pass the Waal, attack
the Hanoverians,
and retire.
12. Utrecht taken by the French.
19. The Dutch send commissaries
to Paris to treat of
peace.
25. The Austrians retire across
the Rhine. The French
pass the Meuse, having taken fort
St. Andre. The
Dutch regiments of Hohenloe and
Bentinck lay down
their arms.
26. The English quit Bommel abandoning
their artillery.
The law which forbad quarters to
the English and
Hanoverians is repealed.
Clundest surrenders to the French.
Loizeroles submits to be imprisoned
and to be put
to death in the stead of his son.
30. The decree of Robespierre revoked,
which condemned
those to death who had connection
with nobles or
clergy. All his laws decreed
to be reviewed, and a
plan proposed of forgiving all revolutionary
crimes.
The French take 120 pieces of cannon,
and 1600
prisoners.
A great fire in the arsenal of Landau.
Pensions decreed to men of letters.
Upon a motion by Clauzel, a prosecution
is decreed
against all the accomplices of Robespierre,
who is
called “the butcher of the
French people.”
The British parliament votes almost
unanimously for
the prosecution of the war.
Carrier suffers on the scaffold
for all his
atrocities.
1795.
Jan. 1. The salary of members
of the convention raised from
18 to 36 livres a day. “Keep
your 36 livres, (said
“some persons on this subject)
but let us have a
“Louis.”
The people of Lyons drag about the
streets the bust
of Marat, Challier, and Pelletier
de St. Fargeau,
who had but lately been objects
of their idolatry.
A woman appears at the bar of the
convention,
furnished with scythes, by means
of which it was
stated that a woman and child could
mow five acres
in a day. Honourable mention!
Decreed, that the sovereignty of
the people is
inalienable, and that they have
a right to chuse
(sic) any form of government except
royalty.
3. The French are dislodged from
their position at
Wardenberg by the English and Austrians.
The French attack the British rear-guard.
9. The whole British army passes
the Rhine.
10. The French army passes the
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Waal in different points
at the time on the ice, and takes
possession of
Thiel. All the rivers of Holland
and the Low
Countries are frozen over so as
to bear the
heaviest weights, and favour the
operations of the
French extremely.
Cambon states the number of livres
in circulation
in the form of assignats to amount
to
9,600,000,000; and he proposes a
lottery to reduce
the number to four milliards (each
one thousand
million).
Mercier makes a bold speech in the
convention
against the abolition of religious
worship.
14. The French attack the British
along their whole
line from Arnheim to Amerongen.
The Prince of Orange and his son
resolve to quit
the Hague.
The states of Holland agree with
the French to
deliver up their country to them.
The Fleet of
Holland is locked up by the ice,
and shares the
fate of the country.
An imposition of one million of
livres in specie is
laid upon Liege, and a thousand
livres a day for
every day’s delay.
Hostages are sent from Liege to
Paris.
Utrecht summoned and taken without
opposition.
Wurcum, Dorcum, and Dort, taken.
18. Pichegru sends detachments
to take possession of
Leyden, Amsterdam, and the Hague.
The Princess of Orange and her daughter-in-law
depart for England.
Tallien moves in the convention
to put to death all
the partizans of the system of terror
which covered
France with bastilles and scaffolds.
Breda, Bergen-op-Zoom, Gertruydenberg,
and
Williamstadt, open their gates to
the French, upon
hearing that Holland was given up.
The French generals require that
within the space
of one month Holland shall supply
them with 200,000
quintals [Footnote: 100lbs.
each.] of flour,
1,000,000 of rations of hay, 200,000
rations of
straw, 1,000,000 bushels of wheat,
150,000 pair of
shoes, 200,000 shirts, 20,000 pair
of boots, 20,000
coats and waistcoats, 30,000 pair
of breeches,
150,000 pantaloons, 50,000 hats,
and 12,000 oxen.
28. Duhem is ordered to the Abbaye
prison, for saying
that aristocracy and royalism were
triumphant. He
is refused admittance, there being
no room.
31. Report on the finances states
that the expences of
the last month exceeded the receipt
by 218,779,475
livres.
Dubois Crance, on the state of the
republic,
reports, that eleven hundred thousand
men are under
arms.
Feb. 2. A ship is laid on the
stocks at Brest called “the
“Avenger of the Country,”
intended to carry 136
guns; 24 feet longer, and 3 feet
wider, than any
ever built.
The assembly of the provisionary
representatives of
the United Provinces acknowledges
the rights of man
and the sovereignty of the people,
dismisses the
states-general, abolishes the office
of
stadtholder, suppresses the regency
of the Hague,
and appoints a new committee of
the India company.
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A deputation from the people of
colour thanks the
convention for liberty granted to
the negroes
(sic).
Disturbances at Rouen, and other
great cities.
Four presses of false assignats
seized at Paris.
Ordered, that deputies be sent to
the colonies
beyond the Cape of Good-Hope.
4. Gouly harangues the convention
to inflame it
against England, which has usurped,
as he said, a
tyrannic dominion over the sea.
Petitioners appear at the bar, demanding
bread.
Zealand capitulates.
The republic of Basle acknowledges
the French
republic.
A decree upon religious worship,
which seems to
allow it more liberty than of late.
Rovere in full convention charges
Syeyes with
having been an instrument and counseller
of
Robespierre.
8. Tumults at the theatres in
Paris.
9. The sections of Paris demand
the trial of Barrere,
of Collot d’Herbois, and Billaud
Varennes.
10. The convention ratifies a treaty
of peace with
Tuscany.
The administration of Belgium addresses
the
convention, desiring an union with
France.
11. Barrere, Collot d’Herbois,
and Billaud Varennes,
decreed to be under arrest.
Antwerp informs the convention that
40,000 Belgians
are ready to join the army of the
republic, and
give the last blow to the impious
coalition of
crowned tyrants.
The convention appoints to the command
of its eight
armies Pichegru as commander in
chief, Jourdan,
Moreau, Kellerman, Sharer, Moncey,
Clancaux, and
Hoche.
14. Deputies are nominated for
the East-Indies.
16. The Dutch announce that they
have begun the great
work of their regeneration.
17. Decreed, that all letters belonging
to Robespierre
be printed.
19. Suspension of arms between
the royalists of La
Vendee and the republicans.
Assassinations at Avignon.
23. Conferences between Charette
and the commissioners
of the convention.
The French bombard Luxemburg.
Emigrants enrolled in London for
an expedition to
the coast of France.
The liberty granted to the press
gives public
writers an opportunity of expressing
their
sentiments boldly of the convention,
and of the
revolution.
27. Charette, Stofflet, and their
officers, dine with
the French commissioners.
28. Charette joyously received
at Nantes.
Cambon states that the expences
of this month
exceed the revenue by 443,164,974
livres.
March 1. A reward is offered for
destroying wolves.
4. Carnot presents the following
description of the
last campaign, viz. 27 victories,
of which, 8 were
pitched battles. 120 actions of
smaller
importance. 88,000 enemies killed,
and 91,000 made
prisoners. 116 places or strong
cities taken, of
which 36 were by siege or blockade;
230 forts or
redoubts; 800 pieces of cannon,
70,000 muskets,
1,900,000 pounds of powder, and
90 stands of
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colours, taken by the republic.
Victory of Admiral Hotham in the
Mediterranean.
Commotions in Paris for want of
provisions.
Eleven persons massacred at Toulon.
Insurrection at Bourdeaux.
The convention has many debates
about Barrere and
his associates.
The Dutch are required to give up
to the French
republic all the coined money in
their possession.
Rouzet tells the convention it is
time that France
should resume her rank among civilized
nations.
5. A committee is appointed to
prepare a constitution
(the third in five years).
Boursault reports that the war in
La Vendee is
extinguished, but that another had
broken out,
called that of the Chouans.
Le Sage denounces the wind which
blew down the flag
from the convention-hall.
Decreed, that the 71 deputies proscribed
by
Robespierre resume their places.
14. The treaty of peace with the
Vendeans read in the
convention, except the secret articles.
Boissy d’Anglas harangues
upon the atrocities in
France, which he attributes to royalists.
17. A committee is appointed to
treat with foreign
powers.
Carletti is received as ambassador
from the Grand
Duke of Tuscany.
April 1. Tumults in Paris for bread
and a constitution.
2. Tumults continued at Paris
and Amiens.
Barrere, Collot d’Herbois,
Vadier, and
Billaud-Varennes, condemned to be
transported to
Guyana.
4. Tumults continue.
5. The King of Prussia makes peace
with the republic.
Motion made to discredit the republican
calendar as
an act of despotism worthy of Robespierre.
Fails
of success.
The convention takes a guard of
554 life-guard men,
and sixty of the artillery.
The newspapers of Paris speak of
the convention
with great boldness.
To quiet the people, it is given
out that corn is
coming in from all quarters.
Admiral Renaudin receives orders
to put to sea.
Baron de Stael is sent as ambassador
from the King
of Sweden to engage in friendship
and alliance with
the convention.
Rhull ventures to pronounce in the
convention an
eulogy on the old monarchy.
The deficit in the last month amounts
to
660,000,000 livres,
Discourse of Thibadeau to inflame
republicanism.
Several communes petition for their
former churches
and worship; the convention passes
to the order of
the day.
Fortier, compiler of the paper called
“The
“Political Correspondence”
imprisoned for saying
“that if all the monsters
who murdered Louis XVI.
were dead, not a Frenchman would
shed a tear over
“the tomb of any one of them.”
Sylverster, from the tribune, assures
the French
people that notwithstanding the
scarcity there is
no danger of starving.
Cambon, who had been treasurer three
years and a
half, arrested.
The convention grants to the Duchess
of Bourbon
relief to the amount of 18,000 livres;
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about 70l.
according to the value of assignats.
Credit appears to revive; 270 livres
in assignats
for the louis.
Patroles (sic) are doubled in Paris;
much
apprehension is entertained.
19. The convention announces peace
with the Chouans.
May 1. Decrees severe against
emigrants.
Preliminary articles signed between
France and
Holland.
Seventy persons massacred in a tumult
at Lyons.
On the motion of Dubois Crance,
decreed, that three
milliards of assignats be issued.
S. The Spaniards defeated near Figueras.
Motion to permit a loss of two per
cent. a month on
assignats.
Vernier, successor to Cambon, states
the expence of
the last campaign at 3,000,000,000
in assignats;
and the last month at 738 millions.
15. An alliance offensive and defensive
concluded at
the Hague between France and Holland;
the first
article excludes the Stadtholder
for ever; the
second assures to France one million
of livres for
the expence of the war.
A vigorous action near Mayence.
Great agitation at Naples; several
disturbers of
the peace imprisoned.
A deputy complains earnestly against
the facility
with which divorces are obtained.
The Sardinians defeated near Mount
St. Bernard.
Decreed, that Le Bon be brought
to trial charged
with cruelties equal to Carrier’s.
Twenty members of the revolutionary
tribunal
guillotined.
20. An alarming insurrection of
the people of Paris
against the convention; Ferrand,
a deputy, is
massacred at the feet of the president;
the
assassin of Ferrand is condemned
22. to death, but is rescued by the
people; the
23. suburb St. Antoine marches against
the convention,
which is in extreme danger and
24. alarm; divisions take place among
the insurgents,
and they lose their force at once.
After having
had the advantage some time, the
terrorists are
overcome by the moderates.
The convention resumes its deliberations,
disarms
the fauxbourgs, decrees the arrest
of a great
number of its own members, and orders
the immediate
execution of fifty of the chiefs
of the
insurrection.
Decreed, that Barrere’s transportation
be
suspended, and that he be tried
again, his sentence
being too mild.
The terrorists rise at Toulon, as
at Paris, and are
subdued with much difficulty and
bloodshed.
25. The Chouans, seeing themselves
betrayed and
deceived by a phantom of a treaty
which had been
held out to them as secure and permanent,
again
take up arms.
28. Rhull blows his brains out.
A petition is presented to the convention
demanding
a separation of the supreme powers,
as the only
means of guarding against tyranny.
The Spaniards are again defeated
by Kellerman.
A camp of 3000 men, chiefly cavalry,
formed at the
Tuilleries.
A proclamation of the convention
to French seamen
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concludes thus, “War, eternal
war, against the
“English.”
Lanjuinais obtains a decree for
freedom of
religious worship.
31. Decreed, that the revolutionary
tribunals, created
May 13, 1793, be suppressed.
Ordered, that the tribunals prosecute
the authors
and accomplices of the massacres
of Sept. 2, 1792.
The convention, afraid that Barrere’s
trial should
take up too much time, decrees that
he be
transported to Africa.
Among the papers of the jacobins
is found an order
of the old committee of public safety
to pay
100,000 livres for printing the
correspondence of
that society.
A journalist in Paris ventures to
write thus:
“Legislators, do not exhaust
your strength and
“genius in discovering that
which has been done
“before your time; give us
the best government you
“can; consider that the people
of France were the
“happiest and the longest
so of any people; give us
“the laws we have been used
to.”
June 1. The commune of Valenciennes
deliberates in a full
assembly whether it should continue
to acknowledge
the convention; or whether it should
not arrest the
representative Lamar.
5. Dutch ambassadors are received
in the convention,
and the treaty of alliance between
the republics
ratified.
6. The Vendeans declare that the
treaty with them is
shamefully evaded; and they again
take up arms.
Their brave leader Charette publishes
a manifesto.
Decreed, that the property of those
condemned or
executed since the establishment
of the
revolutionary tribunals shall be
restored to their
families; except those of Louis
Capet, and his
wife, of Philip Egalite, and Madame
du Barre (sic).
Decree to apply the palace of Versailles
to
national uses.
Assignats burned to this month amount
to
2,623,680,000 livres.
7. The fortress of Luxemburg,
almost impregnable,
surrenders to the French from want
of provisions.
8. Louis Charles, the descendant
of 60 Kings, the son
of Louis XVI. whom the royalists
acknowledged as
King since the 21st of Jan. 1793,
under the name of
Louis XVII. in the eleventh year
of his age,
finished his unhappy life and vain
reign in the
prison of the Temple, where he had
been confined
near three years without communication
with any
friend. History alone will
hereafter instruct the
world whether or not he died a natural
death, as
the convention took great pains
to have it
believed.
11. Decree in favour of those whom
the tyranny of
Robespierre caused to fly from the
kingdom.
A motion is well received to declare
the produce of
the next harvest public property.
General Santerre, long detained
in prison, and
released at the death of Robespierre
is again
denounced.
Proposed “’ to change
the odious name of
“revolutionary committee,
and to suppress the
“infamous red bonnet, as being
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only the symbol of
“blood.”
14. The republicans receive a severe
check at
Grand-Champ from the royalists.
The law repealed which forbad the
wives and
daughters of emigrants to marry
foreigners.
The republicans charge the royalists
with violating
the late treaty. The latter
retort the charge.
The republicans claim the victory
of the 14th ult.
The nephew of General Dubois writes
a letter full
of invective and gall against the
convention.
All sorts of pastry forbidden, on
account of the
scarcity of corn.
The decree which declares all assignats,
bearing
the King’s bust, to be of
no value in future, takes
away from private property one milliard,
665
millions, and 157 thousand livres.
The expence for public instruction
amounts to
300,400,000 livres.
20. Romme, Goujon, Duquesnoy, Soubrany,
Duroy, and
Bourbotte, members of the convention,
and active
leaders in the late riots, are executed.
23. Boissy d’Anglas reads
a new constitution, which the
convention proposes to read article
by article.
Insurrection at Arras for bread.
The convention orders a school of
200 apprentices
to watch-making.
26. Bellisle is summoned by the
English, and returns a
resolute answer of defiance.
A complete victory obtained over
the Spaniards.
2. The emigrants in England are
put under the orders
of Puissaye, and disembark at Quiberon.
The deputies Peyssard and Forrestier
condemned to
prison. Prieur de la Marne
and Albitte escape
judgment by flight.
The value of a louis-d’or
is up to 1000 livres.
All citizens from 16 to 60 commanded
to serve in
the national guard; and in their
oath to swear
these words, “Hatred against
Kings”.
Decreed, that murders, which were
to be punished
with 20 years imprisonment, shall
in future be
punished with death.
A member proposes that the convention
should look
back and punish all judiciary assassinations,
abuses of authority, massacres,
and arbitrary acts
committed since the 1st of Sept.
1792. The
convention passes to the order of
the day, saying,
that such retrospect would involve
half of France.
All the members of the revolutionary
committee of
Brest are delivered over to the
tribunals.
The Vendeans have further successes.
Fresh massacres are committed at
Macon.
A section of Paris demands of the
convention that
it should efface the inscriptions
on the gates of
churches, by which the nation, at
the instance of
Robespierre, granted a certificate
of existence to
the Supreme Being, and insured immortality
to the
soul.
The churches in Paris are opened,
and service
performed with great ceremony.
22. Lord Bridport engages the French
fleet, and takes
three sail of the line.
30. The convention decrees that
the daughter of the
late King shall be given up to the
Emperor, in
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exchange for the commissioners whom
Dumourier had
put into the hands of the Austrians.
July 1. The powers of the administrative
bodies at Lyons
are suspended, and the mayor ordered
to the bar of
the convention.
The “Reveil du Peuple"(awakening
of the people), a
new song against the terrorists,
is in great vogue.
Lanjuinais proposes to suppress
the publication of
the votes of the convention, which
costs the nation
2,300,000 livres annually.
Report of Genissieu in favour of
transported
priests.
Tallien and Blad, members of the
convention,
ordered to repair instantly as representatives
to
the department of La Vendee.
2. Le Bon, pale and trembling,
enters the convention,
and begins his defence: “His
crimes (he observes)
“are those of the convention
itself, under whose
“orders he acted.”
3. Horrid massacres in the Southern
provinces.
Various skirmishes between the French
and Austrians
reported.
Bread 16 livres a pound in Paris.
Bloody action at Chatillon between
the Chouans and
republicans.
The convention decrees that France
is a republic,
one and indivisible.
6. Le Bon continues his defence.
Bresson asserts that it is impossible
to make
France a democratic republic; he
votes for a
senate, an executive power, and
censors.
A member complains that the rights
of man only, and
not the duties of man, are subjects
of
consideration.
14. Anniversary of the French revolution
celebrated.
Project of a national tontine.
A loan of a milliard at three per
cent.
Lanthenas reads a motion from Thomas
Paine, he not
being able to speak French.
Mons. d’Hervilly is wounded
near Aurai (sic).
Warm action between the republicans
and Chouans
near L’Orient.
Le Bon proceeds with his defence.
Disorders at St. Malo; and at Lyons.
15. The royalists attack the camp
of St. Barb; forced
to retreat.
16. The Spaniards again defeated.
17. Le Bon decreed to be in a state
of accusation.
Report of a complete overthrow of
a Spanish army.
Tumults at the theatres.
France contains 28,000 square leagues
of 2280
toises. Each league contains
3,850 acres (arpents)
which make 105,400,000 acres.
Valuing the acres
one with another at 150 livres each,
the total
value of the lands would be 15,810,000,000.
The
debts of the republic at this time
are
17.500,000,000, and these are secured
by the lands;
there is a deficit therefore of
1,690,000,000.
20. The regiment of Hervilly murders
its officers, and
8oo of them desert, giving the word
of order to the
republican general.
The emigrants at Quiberon, being
betrayed to
General Hoche, a general attack
is made on them,
and almost all are cut to pieces.
The brave Count
Sombreuil, after distinguished proofs
of generous
gallantry, is taken prisoner.
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The prisoners are ordered to Vannes,
with General
Sombreuil, the bishop of Dol, and
other
considerable persons.
Tallien, in his reports to the convention,
states
the loss of the royalists at 10,000
men and that of
the republicans as trifling; his
whole report
appears extravagant.
Another victory over the Spaniards
is gained by the
republicans.
Peace is concluded with Spain.
Fresh, but unsuccessful, attempts
are made to
induce the convention to give up
the republican
calendar.
23. Ordered, that the committee
of legislation make a
report upon all the laws relative
to divorce.
28. Read in the convention the
treaty concluded at
Basle between France and Spain.
The convention decrees two festivals,
one in honour
of the fall of Robespierre, the
other of the 10th
of August.
30. Mons. Querini, ambassador
from Venice, arrives at
Paris.
Report of another victory obtained
over the
Spaniards the 17th of this month.
A plot discovered at Rome to open
the prisons, to
put to death the principal persons
of the
government, and burn the houses
of the cardinals.
A proclamation from Louis XVIII.
to all his
subjects, dated Verona.
The chiefs of the royalist army
solicit succours
from the British government.
Aug. 1. Motion by La Riviere “to
pursue with national
“justice all execrable terrorists”.
Comartin, Jarry, Boisgontier, and
eight chiefs of
the Chouans, contrary to the faith
of the treaty,
are seized and brought up to Paris.
2. The convention ratifies the
peace with Spain.
The laws of divorce suspended.
All the departments make great complaints
to the
convention of a scarcity.
3. The eight chiefs of the Chouans,
Comartin, Jarry,
Gazel, la Nourraye, Salignac, Dufour,
Boisgontier,
and de la Haye, delivered to the
military tribunal.
Disorders at St. Omer’s.
The workmen at the wharfs (sic)
at Paris refuse to
work without two hundred livres
a day wages.
4. Boudin moves to put an end
to the revolution.
6. The colonies decreed a part
of the French empire.
8. Journalists denounced; several
deputies arrested,
among whom is Lequinis.
More deputies denounced; Dupin,
Piori, Po, Massieu,
Chaudron, Rousseau, Fourche, and
la Planche,
decreed in a state of accusation.
The Count Sombreuil, the Bishop
of Dol, and 600
emigrants, condemned by the tribunal
of Vannes to
be shot.
13. In the prisons of Paris 4413
persons are confined.
Nantes in great distress.
The convention discusses the subject
of a
constitution.
A deputation from Belgium demands
to be united with
the French republic.
16. Treaty of friendship between
the French nation and
the regency of Tunis.
The convention decrees a new constitution.
The King of Spain ratifies the treaty
of peace with
France.
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The convention annuls all revolutionary
sentences
passed since March 13th, 1793, except
those of the
tribunals of Paris.
The emigrants not comprized in the
exceptions are
for ever proscribed.
21. The convention decrees that
two-thirds of the
succeeding legislature shall be
chosen out of the
present convention.
Violent declamation of Tallien
against emigrants
and royalists.
All clubs or popular societies are
by the decree of
the convention abolished.
The Count d’Artois lands in
England on his way to,
and with the design of forming a
junction with,
Charette.
A new mode of preserving corn discovered
by a
physician of Montpelier.
22. Tumults in the theatres of
Paris.
The convention brings large bodies
of troops into
Paris.
Boissy d’Anglas, presenting
a picture of France
triumphant on all sides, and forcing
Kings to court
its friendship and alliance, beseeches
the
convention to distinguish the last
moments of its
existence by acts of beneficence,
healing all
wounds, drying up tears, and repairing
by the force
of justice those evils which tyrants
had brought
upon the world.
24. Lyons is denounced as attached
to royalty.
25. The constitution is declared
to be perfected.
The word Sans-Culotides is
excluded from the
calendar.
28. The section of Mail complains
that the capital is
filled with troops.
Treaty of peace between the Landgrave
of
Hesse-Cassel and France.
Several sections complain of the
number of troops
in Paris, and of the election of
two-thirds of the
present convention into the next
legislature.
General Montesquieu, and the ex-constituent
Talleyrand Perigord, recalled by
a decree into
France.
30. Much discontent in Paris; the
sections make
considerable movements; every thing
seems to
forebode an explosion.
31. The constitution is laid before
the people for
their acceptance, and approved of
in general; but
the election of two-thirds disliked
Sept. 1. Decreed, that the property
of transported priests,
which had been confiscated by former
laws, shall be
restored to their families.
Decreed, that no minister may officiate
in public
or private without having submitted
to the laws of
the republic.
Decreed, that Louise Marie Adelaide
de Bourbon
Penthievre, wife of Philip Egalite,
be restored to
liberty.
6. Dusseldorff taken by the French;
the army of the
Sambre and the Meuse passes the
Rhine under General
Jourdan.
The section of the French theatre
denounces the
members of the deputation of Paris
to the
convention, as authors of the crimes
of the 2d of
Sept. 1792, and 31st May 1794.
Decreed, that the relations of emigrants
be
excluded from every employment administrative
or
judiciary.
Of six thousand three hundred and
thirty-seven
primary assemblies, containing 958,226
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persons,
914,800 voted for accepting the
constitution,
41,892 rejected it, (so the convention
reports);
consequently it was decreed that
the new
constitution is become a fundamental
law of the
state.
As to the re-election of the two-thirds—of
270,338
voters, 167,757 voted for the re-election
and
95,373 against it.
The convention declares the enlargement
from prison
of all terrorists who had been imprisoned
since the
death of Robespierre.
The committee of marine writes thus
to the
convention: “We are going
to prepare arms in our
“arsenals and forges against
the most perfidious of
“our enemies, against the
haughty England, which
“must fall under the efforts
of a nation which has
“subdued the rest of Europe.”
20. The army of Pichegru having
passed the Rhine near
Manheim, this city surrenders itself
to the French
by capitulation, of which one of
the articles is,
that the Palatinate shall be considered
a neutral
country.
The convention addresses the Parisians,
to inform
them that if any attack be made
upon the national
representatives, the convention
will remove to
Chalons-sur-Maire (sic). The
convention, which
never had so much apprehension for
its safety,
ordered the republican columns to
march to its
defence.
Decreed, that every member of the
convention shall
make a declaration of his fortune
before, and since
the revolution.
Joubert, representative of the people,
writes to
the convention, that the French,
since their
passage of the Rhine, have taken
371 pieces of
cannon, 331,000 pounds of powder,
and other stores.
Decreed, that Belgium and all the
countries which
are, or shall be, conquered from
the House of
Austria, shall be incorporated with
the French
republic.
The section of Le Pelletier writes
severe truths to
the convention.
The salaries settled by the constitution
upon the
750 members of the next legislature,
amount to 174
millions of livres a year.
The salary of the five
members of the executive directory
amounts to
20,400,000 livres.
According to the new organization,
Belgium and the
county of Liege form nine departments,
of which,
the chief towns are Bruges, Ghent,
Antwerp,
Brussels, Liege, Maestricht, Mons,
Namur, and
Luxemburg.
A funeral ceremony in honour of
the victims of
decemviral tyranny.
A famous resolution of 33 sections
of Paris is the
cause of a terrible explosion hereafter.
Proclamation of the convention on
the danger which
threatens.
An afflicting picture given of the
state of the
Southern provinces of France, by
a representative
of the people who was an eye witness
of it.
The primary and permanent assemblies
of Paris
demand of the convention the re-imprisonment
of the
terrorists, and enquiry into the
conduct of the
committees of government.
Oct. 5. An extraordinary fermentation
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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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CHAPTER IV.
THE new legislature, or
fourth assembly of the French, enters
upon its office. It is composed of a
legislative body of 500 members; of a council of ancients
250; of an executive directory of 5 members;
and of 6 ministers, viz. for the interior department,
for the war, for justice, for the admiralty,
for foreign affairs, and for finances. The
five members of the executive directory are, La Reveillere,
le Paux, la Tourneur, Carnot, Rewbell, and
Barras; all ex-deputies of the national convention.
Nov. The legislative body is
employed in discussing a
decree
passed in the last sitting of the
convention,
which imposed a tax of six milliards on
the
landed property, and two milliards upon
industry.
The
criminal tribunal acquits Gen. Menon, suspected
of
having taken part in the, rebellion of the
sections.
The
depreciation of assignats is at this time so
great,
that a pair of shoes costs 300 livres, a
yard
of cloth 3000, a bushel of potatoes 120, a
pound
of bread 40, a pound of coffee and of sugar
175,
a pound of candles and of soap 80 livres each;
a
louis-d’or is worth 4,600 livres.
The
executive directory obtains a grant of three
milliards,
to be at its discretion distributed
among
the different offices.
The
subsistence of Paris not being assured, it is
decreed,
that 250 quintals (each 100lbs. weight) be
levied
on the departments bordering on Paris.
The
Cape of Good-Hope is taken by the English.
The
trial of Comartin, one of the chiefs of the
Chouans,
occupies at present the military tribunal,
and
all Paris.
The
republican generals, and many deputies of the
convention
are implicated in this affair.
A
ship full of emigrants, among whom are the Duke
de
Choiseul and the Count de Montmorency, is driven
by
a tempest into Calais. They are given up to the
criminal
tribunal of that city.
Besides
the sum above granted to the executive
directory,
twenty-one millions more are allowed to
them.
Thirty millions more added for the expences
of
the legislative body.
23.
Public and formal audiences are given by the
executive
directory to foreign ambassadors.
Insurrection
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of 15,000 peasants in the Velay.
Manheim
is taken by the Austrians; 394 pieces of
cannon
are found in it.
Worms
and Spires are retaken by the Austrians.
Decreed,
that the executive directory may sell the
moveable
or personal property of the republic, (le
mobilier)
even to the timber in the national
forests.
Dec. According to the report
upon the finances, the
arrears
due amount to 3,500,000,000 livres; the
debt
to the national bank is 31,000,000 in specie,
and
7,500,000 in specie to foreigners.
The
service of the next month requires
20,220,000,000
in assignats.
Letter
from the directory to the legislative body
declaring,
that the state is in the most calamitous
situation;
that the springs of government are
almost
broken, that the public treasure is
exhausted,
and that they are threatened with evils,
which
may overwhelm the republic.
Decreed,
that a forced loan shall be levied of
600,000,000
in specie upon a million of citizens.
It
is computed that by means of three hundred
millions
in specie, thirty milliards of assignats
will
be taken out of circulation. In this forced
loan
assignats are to be taken at one per cent.
A
motion is made to sell Compiegne, Fontainbleau,
Chantilly,
Ramboullet, Meudon, St. Germaine, St.
Cloud,
Choisy, Vincennes, and the wood of Boulogne.
The
legislative body decrees 1500 millions for the
service
of the armies.
Boissy
d’Anglas proposes to restrain the liberty of
the
press.
The
city of Deux-Ponts taken by the French under
General
St. Eyr (sic).
The
supplying Paris alone with provisions costing
350
millions every ten days, the directory
acquaints
the legislative body that the funds
granted
for that purpose are exhausted.
Decreed,
that the directory shall nominate all the
judges
not elected by the primary assemblies.
All
the ministers agree in declaring that every
thing
is lost, if haste be not made in procuring
funds.
Merlin
of Douai, minister of justice, writes to all
the
criminal tribunals, to perform their duty with
energy
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towards the emigrants, against whom the
republic
had sworn eternal war till death.
New
successes of the republicans in Italy.
The
Austrians continue to obtain advantages over
Pichegru
and Jourdan.
Gronville,
envoy from the republic to Copenhagen,
is
threatened with recall if his Danish Majesty
does
not acknowledge the French republic.
Cambon,
to exculpate himself from charges of
misconduct,
publishes an account, setting forth,
that
during forty-four months of his administration
there
were issued only 11,578,056,623 livres in
assignats,
and in the ten months and a half after
him
there were issued 17,852,226,000 livres in
assignats.
Judgment and Execution of
LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE;
WITH A LIST OF THE
Members the National Convention,
Who voted for and against his Death.
AND
THE NAMES OF MANY OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS
IN THE COURSE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,
DISTINGUISHED ACCORDING TO THEIR PRINCIPLES.
THE THIRD EDITION.
BY H. GOUDEMETZ,
A French Clergyman, Emigrant in England.
TO THE TRULY HUMANE AND BENEVOLENT, WHOSE LIBERALITY
THE AFFLICTED STRANGER HAS SO LARGELY EXPERIENCED,
THIS LITTLE PUBLICATION, HONOURED WITH THEIR PATRONAGE
AND PROMOTED BY THEIR MUNIFICENCE, is, IN TESTIMONY
OF THE GRATITUDE WITH WHICH HIS HEART OVERFLOWS, MOST
THANKFULLY AND RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,
BY THEIR EVERLASTINGLY OBLIGED AND DEVOTED HUMBLE
SERVANT,
H. GOUDEMETZ,
******
JUDGMENT
AGAINST
LOUIS XVI.
IN the National, Convention of France, [Footnote:
N.B. In this Convention, 76 were ex-nobles; between
50 and 60 ex-priests; the rest consisted of lawyers,
merchants, husbandmen, and a great number of artisans,
men who had no property, but what they acquired by
spoil from the rich.] on the 17th, 18th, and 19th
days of January, 1793, the three following questions
were successively put to the vote.
QUESTION THE FIRST.
Is LOUIS guilty or not?
Of the 745 members of the Convention, 20 were absent,
5 sick, 27 gave modified opinions, 693 voted in the
affirmative.
President “I declare in the name of the National
Convention LOUIS “CAPET to be found guilty of
a conspiracy against the liberty of the “nation,
and of an attempt to disturb the public security.”
QUESTION THE SECOND.
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Shall the sentence to be passed upon LOUIS be referred
to the sanction of the people?
The result of the appel nominal on this question
was; 3 sick; 20 absent; 10 refused to vote; 283 voted
for, and 424 against it.
President “I declare in the name of the National
Convention, that its “sentence shall not be
submitted to an appeal to the people.”
QUESTION THE THIRD
What punishment shall be inflicted upon LOUIS?
The appel nominal for the definitive sentence,
by DEPARTMENTS.
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[Editor’s note: The decisions of the members
of the convention are given Department by Department
and the list is followed by an alphabetical list of
the members with the page number on which each appears.
For this reason it has been decided that the page
numbers of the original publication should be shown
from this point.]
******
N.B. The first column expresses the name and
quality of the voters; the second, the manner in which
they gave their votes; in the third, those who voted
for death absolutely are distinguished by the mark
+; those for death with restrictions as to the time,
by the letter D; those for detention, banishment,
&c. by the letter O; absentees (a); not voted, by
(nv); sick by (m); the fourth column shows the fate
or punishment of many of the members; A signifying
assassinated; G guillotined; I imprisoned;
M massacred; P proscribed and S suicides.
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1. HAUTE GARONNE (TOULOUSE)
Mailhe Death...............................................+
Delmas Death...............................................+
Projean Death...............................................+
Peres “We are a Political body, and not a court of
“justice; we cannot make ourselves, judges without
“becoming despots. I vote for confinement
“(reclusion) and afterwards banishment."..........O
Julien Death...............................................+ G
Cales Death...............................................+
De Sacy Death, with respite (avec sursis)...................D
Mazade “I do not think I have power to judge; I am for
“confinement."......................................O
Rouzet Detention...........................................O I
Drulhe Detention...........................................O
2. GERS (AUSCH)
La Plaigne Death...............................................+ I
Montaut Death...............................................+ I
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Descamps Death...............................................+ I
Dubarran Death...............................................+ I
La Guire Death...............................................+
Cappin Detention...........................................O
Jehon Death...............................................+
Bousquet Death, with discussion as to the time...............D
Moysset Detention...........................................O I
3. GIRONDE (BOURDEAUX)
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Vergniault Death...............................................+ G
Gensonne Death...............................................+ G
Guadet Death, with respite.................................D PG
Jay Death...............................................+
Ducos Death...............................................+ G
Gazeau Death...............................................+
De Leyre Death...............................................+ I
Fonfrede Death...............................................+ G
Grangeneuve “Although many Of my colleagues have manifested
“sentiments ill agreeing with the impartiality of a
“court of judicature; and have employed all
“possible means of influence, in order to extort
“from the national convention a sentence of death;
“I vote for confinement only.” .....................O G
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Du Plantier Death, with respite.................................D
La Caze Confinement and banishment..........................O G
Bergoin Confinement.........................................O
4. L’HERAULT (MONTPELLIER)
Cambon Death...............................................+ I
Bonnet Death...............................................+ S
Rouyer Death...............................................+ I
Viennet “An accumulation of power being monstrous, I
“declare myself incompetent to give any other
“sentence than for confinement."....................O
Fabre Death...............................................+
Curee Confinement or deportation..........................O
Cambaceres Death, in case of invasion only.....................O
Brunel Confinement.........................................O
Castillon Confinement and banishment..........................O P
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5. ISLE ET VILAINE (RENNES)
Pastoret Dead during the appeal.
Duval Death...............................................+
Sevestre Death...............................................+
Chaumont Death...............................................+
Lanjuinais “We have no right to put to death a vanquished
“enemy. I vote for confinement or banishment.".....O P
Beaugeard Death...............................................+
Dubignon Confinement.........................................O
Mauxel Confinement until we have peace.....................O
Fermont “As a man, I do not think I have a right to take
“away the life of another. As a legislator, I
“never will vote for death."........................O I
Le Breton “If two-thirds of the votes were required, I might
vote for death."....................................O I
Obelin Confinement and banishment..........................O I
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6. INDRE (CHATEAUROUX)
Thibaut Death...............................................+
Le Jeune Death...............................................+
Pepin I am deputed only to make laws......................O
Porcher Confinement and banishment..........................O
Derazey Confinement.........................................O I
Boudin Confinement or deportation..........................O
Mainville Confinement.........................................O G
7. INDRE ET LOIRE (TOURS)
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Gardien “I fear neither factions nor robbers,
their
“menaces
shall never prevail on me; I think
“myself
free, because I have no fear. Detention."..O
G
Nioche Death...............................................+
J. Dupont Death...............................................+
Ruelle Death...............................................+
Pottier Death..........................................
.....+
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Isabeau Death...............................................+
Bodin “A sacrifice of human blood can never be the,
“foundation of liberty. Consequently I vote for
“banishment.".......................................O
Champigny Confinement or deportation..........................+
Vigee Confinement or banishment...........................O G
8. ISERE (GRENOBLE)
Baudran Death...............................................+
Real “I have no doubt but that if the people were
“consulted, they would choose the mildest
“punishment. I therefore must in consequence
“give my vote for detention.".......................O
Genevois Death...............................................+
Charrel Death...............................................+
Amar Death...............................................+ I
Genissieu Death...............................................+
Servonat “Let my vote expose me or not to abuse or menaces,
“I pronounce boldly for confinement or
“banishment.".......................................O
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Prunelle de
Lierre “The National Convention ought
to consult only
“justice.
I therefore give my opinion for
“banishment.".......................................O
Vaublanc Detention..........................................
O
Boissieu “Not having the commission of a
judge, I do not
“consider
myself as qualified to apply penal
“laws.".............................................O
9. JURA (ST. CLAUDE)
Grenot Death...............................................+ I
Prost Death...............................................+
Laurenceot “Notwithstanding the menaces which have been
“thrown out, I vote for detention.".................O I
Amyon Death...............................................+ I
Ferroux Death...............................................+ I
Bonguyode “Is it not time, that the blood of Frenchmen
should cease to flow? I vote for perpetual
“imprisonment.".....................................O
Vernier Confinement.........................................O P
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Babey Confinement or banishment...........................O I
Le Montey Confinement.........................................O
10. LES LANDES (DOL)
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D’Artigoyte Death...............................................+ P
Dires Death...............................................+
Ducos l’aine Death...............................................+ G
Gadroy “I will not, like others, invoke the penal code,
“since we have lost sight of those wholesome forms
“that were instituted for all citizens. Besides,
“I do not think, that we have a right to inflict
“the punishment of death; nor does the interest of
“my country require it."............................O
Saurine “My constituents have not deputed me to be a
“criminal judge."...................................O
Le Franc Confinement or banishment...........................O
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11. LOIRE ET CHER (BLOIS)
Brisson Death...............................................+
Foussedoire Death...............................................+ I
Chabot Death...............................................+ G
(ex capuchin)
Fressine Death...............................................+
Le Clerc “The punishment of death being an outrage against
“humanity, and my powers not being unlimited, I can
“vote only for detention."..........................O
Vanaille Death...............................................+
Gregoire Absent by commission................................a
12. HAUTE LOIRE (PUY)
Raynault Death...............................................+
Delcher Death...............................................+
Flageas Death...............................................+
Faure Death...............................................+ I
Bonnet
fils Death...............................................+
Barthelemy Death, with discussion as to the time...............+ D
Camus Absent by commission................................a I
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13. LOIRE INFERIEURE (NANTES)
Chaillon “I have not been deputed to exercise
the functions
“of
a jure. I hold my commission from good men,
“who
are enemies of tyranny and of every
“accumulation
of power."............................O
Le Fevre Confinement or banishment...........................O
I
Meaulle Death...............................................+
P
Millinet Confinement or banishment...........................O
Villiers Death...............................................+
Jarry Confinement.........................................O
I
Fouche Death...............................................+
Coustard Banishment..........................................O
G
14. LOIRET (ORLEANS)
Delaguelle Death...............................................+
Lombard-la Death...............................................+
-chaux
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J. B. Louvet Death...............................................+ P
Leonard Death...............................................+ I
-Bourbon
La Boissiere Death with respite..................................D G
Garan-Coulon “I maintain that liberty cannot subsist with this
“usurpation of power. Tyranny is always there,
“where some men are above the laws, and others
“below them.".......................................O
Le Page “Nature has impressed upon my heart an invincible
“aversion to the shedding of blood. My opinion is,
“that one man has not a right to condemn another
“man to death.".....................................O
Guerin “I cannot prevail upon myself to put to death a
“vanquished enemy.".................................O P
Gentil Confinement.........................................O
Pelle Confinement.........................................O
15. LOT (CAHORS)
Cledel Death...............................................+
St. Andre, Death...............................................+ I
noble
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Mont Mayan Death...............................................+
Delbret Death, with respite.................................D
Cavaignan Death...............................................+
Alboys “The fear of poignards has no influence upon
“my heart. No man can be punished but by virtue
“of some law antecedent to the offence."............O
Ansy Confinement.........................................O E
Boygnes Confinement.........................................O
Salleles Confinement.........................................O
Cayla Absent through sickness.............................m
16. LOT ET GARONNE (AGEN)
Vidalot Death...............................................+
Paganel Death...............................................+
Boussion Death...............................................+
Fournel Death...............................................+
Claverie “I cannot pronounce upon the fate of Louis but
“according to the constitution. Now the
“constitution speaks only of the forfeiture of
“the crown."........................................O
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Gayet-la
-Prade “Not to oppose the constitution
to the penal code,
“I
choose rather to vote for confinement."..........O
Noguer “Having examined my conscience
as a public man, I
“give
my opinion for detention."....................O
Laurent Confinement.........................................O
Laroche Confinement or banishment...........................O
Dorisy Confinement....................................
.....O
17. LA LOZERE (MENDE)
Random Death...............................................+ I
Servierre Death...............................................+
Monestier Death...............................................+
Barrot “As the death of Louis does not appear to me to
“be necessary, or even useful to the republic,
“I vote for detention.".............................O
Aubert Confinement.........................................O
Pellet Absent by commission................................a
Page 164
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18. MAINE ET LOIRE (ANGERS)
Choudieu Death...............................................+ I
De l’Aulnay Death...............................................+ G
l’aine
Le Paux Death...............................................+ P
Le Clerc Death...............................................+
Perard Death...............................................+
De.
Houilliere “I am not a judge; I am merely a legislator.
“Consequently I can vote only for detention.".......O
D’Andenac Confinement.........................................O
l’aine
D’Andenac Confinement or deportation..........................O
le jeune
Pilastre Banishment..........................................O
De l’Aulnay Confinement.........................................O
le jeune
Le Maignan Confinement.........................................O
Page 165
19. LA MANCHE (COUTANCES)
Le Moine Death...............................................+
Ribet Death, with respite.................................D
Le Tourneur Death...............................................+
Le Carpentier Death..............................................+
Bonnesoeur Death...............................................+
Laurence Death...............................................+
Havin Death...............................................+
Hubert Death...............................................+
Gervais
-sauve “If the people had been willing to accumulate
“upon my head the various functions of accuser,
“juryman, and legislator, the burthen would have
“been above my strength. I vote for confinement."..O
Pinel I vote freely for detention.........................O
Poisson Banishment..........................................O
Engerrand Confinement.........................................O
Bretel Confinement.........................................O
Page 166
20. LA MARNE (RHEIMS)
Prieur Death...............................................+ I
Thuriot Death...............................................+ I
Ch. Charlier Death...............................................+
De la Croix Death...............................................+ G
de Constant
De Villers Death...............................................+
Armonville Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Drouet, Death...............................................+ I
maitre
de postes
Vatelier Death...............................................+
Poulain Confinement.........................................O
Blanc Banishment..........................................O I
21. LA HAUTE MARNE (LANGRES)
Guillardin Death...............................................+
Monnel Death...............................................+
Page 167
Page 74
Roux Death...............................................+
Valdruche Death...............................................+
Rousseau Death, with discussion as to the time...............D
La Loi Death...............................................+
Wandelin
-court “I except against myself (je me suis recuse)
“as judge; therefore I can vote only for
“confinement, as a measure of general safety."......O
22. MAYENNE (LAVAL)
Bissy, Death...............................................+
le jeune
Esne Death...............................................+ I
Du Rocher Death...............................................+
Enjubaut Death...............................................+ I
Serveau Death...............................................+
Villars “As the stability of a republic does not depend
“upon the life, or death of a single individual,
“and killing a tyrant is the last resource of
“tyranny, I vote for confinement."..................O
Page 168
Le Jeune “The law of death not being applicable
to the
“case
before us, I abstain from pronouncing
“judgment
of death."................................O
Plaichard
-chottiere Perpetual confinement...............................O
23. LE MEURTHE (NANCY)
Malarme Death...............................................+
Levasseur Death...............................................+
Bonneval Death...............................................+
Salle “My opponents have said, Do not appeal to the
“people, because the people would not vote for
“death; but for my part I wish not to vote, but
“as the people would do."...........................O PG
Molveau “Convinced that the day, on which the head of
“Louis should fall, would probably be that of
“the establishment of a new tyranny; and
“apprehensive that his death would be for France,
“what that of Charles 1. was for England, I give
“my opinion for confinement or banishment.".........O
Page 169
Lalande Confinement and banishment..........................O
Zangiacomi Confinement and banishment..........................O
Michel Confinement and banishment..........................O
24. LA MEUSE (VERDUN)
Pons Death...............................................+
Moreau “The safety of the state does not appear to me to
“require the death of Louis; I am for banishment."..O
Roussel “Far from being dangerous, I think it sound
“policy to let Louis live.".........................O
Baroche “The judiciary power being no part of my
“commission, I vote for confinement."...............O
Page 170
Harmand “I cannot bring the punishment
from the penal,
“code,
since you have discarded all the forms
“of
it. I am therefore for banishment."............O
Marquis “I am for provisional confinement.".................O
Tocquot Confinement and banishment..........................O
Humbert Confinement and banishment.........................
O
Page 75
25. MORBIHAN (VANNES)
Lequinio Death...............................................+
Audrein Death...............................................+
Le Hardy “Farewell to the liberty of my country, if we are
“to be every thing at once. No! we are not judges.
“The death of Kings has never been salutary to
“liberty. If the convention were to judge, I
“should wish to see at least sixty of its members
“excluded. I am for confinement."...................O G
Page 171
Corbel “A measure of safety is preferable
to a rigorous
“application
of the law. I therefore vote for
“provisional
confinement."..........................O
Gillet “Inaccessible to fear, I assert
that capital
“punishment
is useless and dangerous.
“Perpetual
confinement."............................O M
Le Mailland Confinement and banishment..........................O
Michel Confinement and banishment..........................O
Rouault Confinement.........................................O
I
26. LA MOSELLE (METZ)
Anthoine Death...............................................+
Bar Death...............................................+
Nentz Death...............................................+ I
Thirion Death...............................................+ I
Becker “Neither the menaces with which this tribune has
“resounded, nor those puerile fears, with which
“people have sought to fill us, shall make me
“act contrary to my Sentiments, which is for
“confinement and banishment.".......................O
Page 172
Merlin Confinement.........................................O
Couturier Absent on commission................................a
Blaux Confinement.........................................O I
27. LA NIEVRE (NEVERS)
Saustrault Death...............................................+
Damrobe Death...............................................+
Le Fiot Death...............................................+
Guilrault Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Legendre Death...............................................+
La Planche Death...............................................+
Jourdan “The punishment of death is contrary to my
“principles. I cannot put a fellow-creature to
“death."....................................... ....O G
Page 173
28. NORD (DOUAY)
Merlin Death...............................................+
Duhem Death...............................................+ I
Cochet Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Fockedey Confinement.........................................O
Senault Death...............................................+ P
Carpentier Death...............................................+ P
Pryese Death...............................................+
Sallengros Death...............................................+
Poultier Death, with discussion as to time...................D G
Aoust Death...............................................+ G
Gossuin Absent upon commission..............................a
29. OISE (BEAUVAIS)
Page 76
Couppe Death...............................................+ I
Calon Death...............................................+
Page 174
Isore Death...............................................+
Ch. Villette Confinement and banishment..........................O M
Delamare Confinement or banishment...........................O I
Massieu,
eveque
intrus Death...............................................+ P
Cloots.
Baron
Prussien Death...............................................+ G
Portier Death, with respite.................................D
Bezare Death...............................................+
Bourdon Death...............................................+ P
Godefroy Absent upon commission..............................a
30. L’ORNE (ALENCON)
Valaze Death...............................................+ G
La
Hosdiniere Death...............................................+
Desrouais Death...............................................+
Dubois Death...............................................+
Beaupre Death, with respite.................................D
Colombel Death...............................................+
Thomas “If the enemy invade our territories, I vote for
“death; otherwise for detention."...................O
Dugue
d’assey “Having never been able to satisfy that I could
“be both legislator and judge at once, I vote for
“detention."........................................O I
Page 175
Fourney “The constitution has not inflicted
the
“punishment
of death upon Kings who may be guilty
“of
conspiracy. I am therefore for confinement
“and
banishment."...................................O
31. DEPARTMENT DE PARIS
Robespierre “The tyrant has deserved death. I vote for
l’aine “death."............................................+ G
Avocat d’Arras
Danton,
avt. “I vote for death"..................................+ G
Collot
d’Herbois,
comedian Death...............................................+ B
Billaud Va
-rennes Death...............................................+ B
Cam.
Desmoulins Death...............................................+ G
journaliste
Marat, Death...............................................+ A
journaliste
La
Vicomterie Death...............................................+ I
Legendre,
butcher Death...............................................+
Page 176
Page 77
Raffron Death...............................................+
Panis Death...............................................+ I
Serjeant Death...............................................+ P
Robert Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Freron Death...............................................+
Beauvais Death, with discussion as to time...................D G
Fabre
d’Eglantine, Death...............................................+ G
journaliste
Osselin Death...............................................+ G
Robespierre
le jeune Death...............................................+ G
David,
artiste Death...............................................+ I
Boucher Death...............................................+
Laignelot Death, with discussion as to time...................D I
Thomas Confinement.........................................O
Manuel “Laws of blood ought not to be among the
“principles of a republic. The right of death
“belongs only to nature. Louis is laid low
“upon the ground; it is too easy to kill him,
“for me to give the blow."..........................O G
Dussault “A man may be, in my opinion an excellent patriot,
“without putting to death his fallen enemy. I vote
“for confinement and banishment."...................O P
Page 177
D’Orleans, called
Egalite “My conscience tells me that
Louis deserves death.” + G
32. PAS DE CALAIS (ARRAS)
Garnet Death...............................................+
Duquesnoy Death...............................................+ S
Le Bas Death...............................................+ S
Guffroy Death...............................................+
Bollet Death...............................................+
Varlet “I vote for detention, because the nation ought
“not to be influenced by sentiments of revenge."....O
Enlard “My conscience points it out as my duty to have
“nothing to do with the penal code. I am for
“confinement and banishment.".......................O
Page 178
Dannon “The experience of those nations,
who have put
“their
King to death, proves the contrary of
“what
you hope for. I am for confinement and
“transportation."...................................O
Personne Confinement and banishment..........................O
Tho. Payne Confinement and banishment..........................O
I
Magniez Confinement and banishment..........................O
33. PUY DE DOME (CLERMONT)
Page 78
Couthon Death...............................................+ G
Gibergues Death...............................................+ I
Maignet Death...............................................+
Romme Death...............................................+ S
Soubrany Death...............................................+ G
Rudelle Death...............................................+
Monestier Death...............................................+
La Loue Death...............................................+
Blanval Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Du Laure Death...............................................+ P
Bancal “The thirst of vengeance and of blood is found
“only in individuals and factions; but never in a
“great nation. I think, besides, that the
“majority of French citizens would not vote for
“actual death. A legislator ought to resist all
“private passions which surround him, to brave
“with firmness every danger, and to obey nothing
“but his conscience and his reason. I am for
“detention."........................................O I
Page 179
Girot
-pouzol Confinement and banishment..........................O
..
34. HAUTES PYRENNEES (SIC) (TARBES)
Barrere,
ex-noble Death...............................................+ B
Ferrand Death...............................................+ M
La Crampe Death...............................................+
Dupont “Behind this mausoleum I see a lion springing
“from his den, and a dangerous enemy substituted
“in the place of a vanquished one. I vote for
“confinement."......................................O
Picque “I am for death; but not till after the cessation
“of hostilities."...................................D
Gertoux Confinement and banishment..........................O
35. BASSES PYRENNEES (PAU)
Sanadon,
eveque
intrus “Being a legislator, I am not
a judge. I cannot
“vote
but for confinement.".........................O P
Pemartin “I am only at liberty to adopt
a measure of
“safety,
which is, confinement or banishment."......O
Comte “I am for the same punishment as
the last
“speaker."..........................................O
Meillant “It Would, in my judgment, be a
most mistaken
“measure
to cut off that head, which may one
“day
become useful. Confinement and
“banishment.".......................................O
Page 181
Casenave “The accumulation of so many inconsistent
powers
“appears
to me, notwithstanding the paradoxes
“and
sophisms which art has invented in the
“course
of this proceeding, to be a monstrous
“tyranny,
in which I am not willing to bear a
“part.
The only punishment applicable to Louis
“is
forfeiture of the crown.".......................O
P
Neveu “I fulfil my duty in voting for
confinement.".......O
Page 79
36. PYRENNEES ORIENTALES (PERPIGNAN)
Montegot Death...............................................+
Cazanies Death...............................................+
Biroteau “During the war I vote for confinement; and
“after peace is established, for death."............O G
Guyter Confinement and banishment..........................O I
Fabre Absent through sickness.............................m
Page 182
37. HAUT RHIN (COLMAR)
Ritter Death...............................................+
La Porte Death...............................................+
Joannot Death...............................................+
Pflieger Death...............................................+
Dubois “I am not a judge. This character belongs to
“none of us. If we were judges, we should
“perform the duties Of such, and observe forms.
“I am for provisional confinement.".................O
Albert Provisional confinement.............................O
Rewbel Absent through sickness.............................m
38. BAS RHIN (STRASBOURG)
Laurent Death...............................................+
Bentabole Death...............................................+
Louis Death...............................................+ P
Page 183
Arbogast “I see the security of the republic depends on
“the detention of Louis until time of peace.".......O
Christiani Confinement.........................................O
Dentzell Confinement.........................................O I
Simon Absent upon commission..............................a G
Rhull Absent upon commission..............................a S
Erman Absent through sickness.............................m
39. RHONE ET LOIRE (LYON)
Dupuis, fils Death...............................................+
Dubonchet Death...............................................+
Pressavin Death...............................................+
Noel Pointe Death...............................................+
L’Eveque Death...............................................+
Chasset “The convention, by its conduct in the violation
“of judiciary forms, has convinced me that it
“does not mean to place itself in the situation
“of a judge. It is therefore not permitted me
“to vote for death. I am for confinement until
“the time of peace."................................O
Page 184
Michel “Reasons of state and of public good make me
“incline to detention.".............................O
Patrin “The existence of Louis is useful; his death.
“dangerous."........................................O
Lanthenas “My opinion is, that Louis deserves death; but
“only in case of a foreign war."....................O I
Eusset Death...............................................+
Moulin “I vote for death; but not until all the Bourbons
“are expelled.".....................................O
Vitet Confinement.........................................O P
Fournier Confinement.........................................O
Bezaud Confinement and banishment..........................O
Forest Confinement and banishment..........................O
40. HAUTE SAONE (VESOUL)
Page 80
Gourdan Death...............................................+
Siblot Death...............................................+
Page 185
Bolot Death...............................................+
Dormier Death...............................................+
Vigneron Confinement and banishment..........................O
Chauvier Confinement and banishment........................ .O
Balivet Confinement and banishment..........................O
41. SAONE ET LOIRE (MACON)
Carra, journal -iste Death...............................................+
G Gelin Death...............................................+
Guillermin Death...............................................+
Reverchon Death...............................................+
Bodot Death...............................................+
Guilmardet Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Mailly Death...............................................+
Montgilbert “If the enemies invade the French
territory, then
“only
I am of opinion that Louis should die.".......O
Moreau Death...............................................+
Masuyer Confinement till the peace..........................O
PG
Page 186
Bertucat “I cannot judge arbitrarily in this case.
“Perpetual confinement."............................O
42. LA SARTHE (LE MANS)
Richard Death...............................................+
Primaudiere Death...............................................+
Phelippeau Death...............................................+ G
Boutrone Death...............................................+
Levasseur Death...............................................+ I
Froger Death...............................................+
Letourneur Death...............................................+
Syeyes “Death, (adding) without a word more"...............+
Salmon “I am for detention; lest the anarchists and
“ambitious find in the death of Louis more food
“for their intrigues."..............................O I
Chevalier “The law does not permit me to pronounce any
“other sentence than forfeiture of the crown."......O I
Page 187
43. SEINE ET OISE (VERSAILLES)
Lecointre Death...............................................+ I
Bassal Death...............................................+ P
Audoin Death...............................................+ P
Treilhard Death...............................................+
Tallien Death.............................................. +
Chenier Death...............................................+ G
Royt “I vote for death, but not until after the
“constitution has been ratified."...................O
Mercier “The sentence of death is impolitic and dangerous.
Page 81
“The phantom of a King may be of marvellous
“service to us. Perpetual confinement."............O P
Kersaint “I do not think myself called forth to pronounce
“a judicial sentence. And if I were a judge, I
“should vote in mercy, and not in hatred. I have
“no notion of a great nation acting from revenge;
“in this struggle the inequality of the parties
“makes it shocking. I am for confinement until
“the time of peace."................................O G
Page 188
Dupuis Confinement.........................................O
Alquier Death, after the peace..............................D
Gorsas,
journa
-liste Detention...........................................O G
Haussman Absent by commission................................a
Herault de
Sechelles,
avocat
-general Absent by commission................................a G
44. SEINE INFERIEURE (ROUEN)
Albite Death...............................................+ p
Pocholles Death...............................................+
Vincent “To condemn Louis to death is to provoke a civil.
“war, to ruin the nation, to overturn the state,
“and to destroy liberty altogether. I am for
“confinement and banishment.".......................O G
Page 189
Bailleul “Consider that before posterity
the illusion will
“cease,
and the passions will be no more. You
“wish
for the happiness of the people, and the head
“of
Louis is your security for it. I vote for
“detention."........................................O
I
Mariette “I have only the quality of legislator;
that of
“judge
is inconsistent with it. I vote for
“banishment.".......................................O
Doublet “The evils which the death of Stuart
brought upon
“England,
make me vote for detention."..............O I
Rualt “It is very strange that people
are so earnest to.
“follow
the penal code, when they have not
“followed,
in the forms of proceeding, any one of
“the
articles of criminal legislation. I vote for
“provisional
confinement."..........................O P
Faure,
libraire Confinement and banishment..........................O
Bourgeois Confinement and transportation......................O
Hardy,
medicin Confinement and banishment..........................O
Page 190
Yger Confinement and banishment..........................O
Hecquet Confinement and banishment..........................O I
Duval, Confinement and banishment..........................O
avocat
Lefevre,
juge Confinement and banishment..........................O
Blutel Confinement and banishment..........................O I
Delahaye Confinement.........................................O P
45. SEINE ET MARNE (MELUN)
Page 82
Mauduit Death...............................................+
Tellier Death...............................................+ S
Cordier Death...............................................+
Bernard “I am for death, but not until after the
“constitution is settled."..........................O
Bailly de “I consider Louis as an hostage necessary to public
Juilly “tranquility. I am for confinement and
“banishment.".......................................O P
Himbert “I have the fullest conviction that I cannot act as
“a judge. You have annulled the high national
“court, and are you not afraid that history will
“accuse you of having usurped a power which did not
“belong to you? I am for confinement and
“banishment.".......................................O
Page 191
De France “Since all judiciary forms are trampled under foot,
“I vote for confinement.............................O
Vigny Confinement and banishment..........................O
Geoffry, Confinement.........................................O
l’aine
Opoix Confinement and banishment..........................O
Bernier Provisional confinement.............................O
46. LES DEUX SEVRES (NIORT)
Lecointepuy
-raveau Death...............................................+
Dubreuil Death...............................................+ I
Cochon Death...............................................+
L’Official “I declare that I have no power to judge
“criminally.".......................................O
Jard- Confinement and transportation......................O
panviller
Page 192
Anguis Confinement and transportation......................O
Du Chatel Absent through sickness.............................m G
47. LA SOMME (AMIENS)
Saladin Death...............................................+ I
Dumont Death...............................................+
Delecloy Death...............................................+
Scellier Death...............................................+
Florent “Although my opinion does not seem to be that which
-louvet “will prevail, I vote for detention."...............O P
Du Festel “My electoral assembly was so far from designing to
“give me a judicial power, that when it nominated
“me a deputy, it appointed two haut jures”
[Footnote: They are appointed in every department
to try all causes, civil and criminal.”] “at the
“same time. Confinement and banishment."...........O
Page 193
Sillery, “My constituents were not so senseless
as to
noble “accumulate upon my head all
sorts of powers. I
“vote
for banishment................................O G
De Verite “I cannot be accuser and judge
in the same cause.
“Confinement
and banishment.........................O P
Rivery, Confinement.........................................O
avocat
Gantois Confinement and banishment..........................O
Martin Confinement.........................................O
St. Prix
Asselin, Confinement.........................................O
avocat
Page 83
48. LE TARN (CASTRES)
La Source Death...............................................+ G
La Combe Death...............................................+
St. Michel
Campmas Death...............................................+
Gourry “As soon as you shall have voted the expulsion of
“all the Bourbons, I will vote for the death of
“Louis; but not before."............................O
Page 194
Soloniac Confinement and banishment..........................O
Marvejols Confinement and banishment..........................O
Rochegude Confinement and banishment..........................O
Meyer Confinement and transportation......................O
D’Ambermenil Absent by illness...................................m I
49. LE VAR (TOULON)
Escudier Death...............................................+ I
Ricard Death...............................................+ I
Charbonier Death...............................................+ I
D’Espinassy Death...............................................+
Isnard Death...............................................+ P
Roubaud Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Barras Death...............................................+
Antiboul Confinement.........................................O G
Page 195
50. LA VENDEE (FONTENAY-LE-COMTE)
Goupilleau, Death...............................................+ P
l’aine
Goupilleau, Death...............................................+
le jeune
Maignen Death...............................................+
Fayo Death...............................................+
Musset Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Garros Death...............................................+
Gaudin “I cannot imagine that the French people
“delegated to us a despotic power—that is, a power
“to make laws and to apply them. I am for
“confinement and banishment.".......................O I
Girard Confinement and banishment..........................O
Morisson “I do not think that Louis is subject to our
“jurisdiction; therefore I abstain from voting."....nv
Page 196
51. LA VIENNE (POITIERS)
Piozzy Death...............................................+
Martineau Death...............................................+
Ingrand Death...............................................+
Thibaudot Death...............................................+
Creuze- “I do not think that men who make laws can order
la-touche “the death of any man. I vote for confinement and
“banishment.........................................O
Creuze- Confinement.........................................O
paschal
Dutroubor- Confinement and banishment..........................O
nier
Bion Confinement and banishment..........................O
52. LA HAUTE VIENNE (LIMOGES)
Page 84
Gay Vernon Death...............................................+
Page 197
Lesterp “For death, in case of an hostile invasion."........O P
beauvais
Bordas “As a measure of safety, I decide for confinement.".O
Faye “My conscience forbids me to vote for death.".......O
La Croix Confinement and banishment..........................O G
Rivaud Confinement.........................................O
Soulignac Confinement.........................................O P
53. LES VOSGES (EPINAL)
Perrin Death...............................................+
Poulain Death, but not till after the constitution....... O
grand-pre
Souhait Confinement.........................................O
Baland Confinement.........................................O
Couhey Confinement and banishment..........................O
Bresson “Judges prostrate themselves before a law that is
“equal for all, but we have violated equality to
“make an exception against a single individual.
“Judges have a bandage of ice (bandeau glace) upon
“their forehead, but hatred against Louis burns and
“devours us. Judges reject severe opinions, but we
“publish with pride the rigour of our judgments.
“Judges mitigate the horror of a condemnation by
“the expression of pity, but our aversion pursues
“Louis even under the axe of the executioner. From
“hence I conclude that we are not judges, and that
“I cannot vote but for confinement."................O I
Page 198
Noel Absent by commission................................a G
Hugo Absent by commission................................a
54. L’YONNE (AUXERRE)
Le Pelletier Death...............................................+ A
de St. Fargeau
Maure Death...............................................+ S
Page 199
Herard Death...............................................+
J. Boileau Death...............................................+ G
Turreau Death...............................................+ I
Bourbotte Death...............................................+ G
Finot Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Precy Death, but not till after the constitution..........O
Chatelain Confinement and banishment..........................O
55. L’AIN (BOURG-EN-BRESSE)
Deydier Death...............................................+
Merlin Death...............................................+
Gautier Death...............................................+
Royer Confinement and banishment..........................O I
Mollet Confinement.........................................O
56. L’AISNE (LAON)
Quinette Death...............................................+ I
Jean de Brie Death...............................................+
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St. Just Death...............................................+ G
Beffroy Death...............................................+
Petit Death...............................................+
Fiquet Death...............................................+
Loisel Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Boucheron Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Condorcet,
academicien “The punishment of death is contrary to my
“principles; I shall never vote for it. I vote
“for the heaviest punishment of the penal code
“which does not amount to death."................* PM
Dupin, “I am of the Same opinion with Monsieur
“Condorcet; that is, I vote for confinement in
“chains."........................................*
Belin “I vote for death only in case of invasion
“by the enemy."..................................O
[Footnote: * N.B.
These two are in the report said
to have voted for chains.]
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57. L’ALLIER (MOULINS)
Vidalin Death...............................................+
Martel Death...............................................+
Beauchamp Death...............................................+
Chevalier “I think it my duty not to vote."...................nv
58. HAUTES ALPES (GAP)
Izoard Confinement.........................................O
Barety Confinement.........................................O
Borel Confinement.........................................O
Caseneuve Confinement.........................................O I
Serres “My country, my conscience, my love of liberty,
“dictate my vote for detention."....................O
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59. BASSES ALPES (DIGNE)
Maysse Death...............................................+ I
Derbes Death...............................................+
la tour
Savornin Death...............................................+
Peyze Death...............................................+ G
Verdallin “I vote for detention, because the death of Louis
“would only cause tyranny to revive."...............O
Reguis Confinement and banishment..........................O
60. L’ARDECHE (PRIVAS)
Gleizal Death...............................................+
Soubeyran “I vote for death, but not till the expulsion of
“all the Bourbons.".................................O
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Gamon “I am for the same punishment, but in case of
“invasion by the enemy."............................O
St. Martin “I would have Louis live, because the pretensions
“to royalty will be without any danger, so long as
“they shall rest on his head. I am for life and
“confinement."......................................O
Garilhe “Every irrevocable act which is not ratified by the
“people, is void. I am therefore for confinement.".O I
Boissi- Confinement and transportation......................O
d’Anglas
Corin- Confinement and banishment..........................O
Fustier
61. ARDENNES (MEZIERES)
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Ferry Death...............................................+
Dubois Death...............................................+
Robert Death...............................................+
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Monesson “I consent to death, provided that you first expel
“all the Bourbons.".................................O
Vermond “If there shall be an invasion, I vote for death."..O
Bodin Banishment..........................................O
Thierrier Perpetual detention.................................O
Blondel Confinement; death in case of invasion..............O
62. ARRIEGE (FOIX)
Vadier Death...............................................+ B
Espert Death...............................................+ P
Clauzel Death...............................................+
Camp Death...............................................+
Martin
Lakanal Death...............................................+
Gaston Death, with discussion as to time...................D
63. AUBE (TROYES)
Courtois Death...............................................+
Robin Death...............................................+
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Garnier Death...............................................+
Rabaut “Persuaded that the ashes, from the funeral pile of
St. Etienne “kings, like the ashes of martyrs, only produce
“others; satisfied also that my nation ought not to
“have the ferocity of the tiger which tears to
“pieces, but the courage of the lion which despises,
“I vote for preserving Louis as an hostage."........O G
Perrin Confinement and banishment..........................O G
Bonnemain Confinement and deportation.........................O
Douge Confinement and deportation.........................O
Pierret Confinement and deportation.........................O
Duval Confinement and banishment..........................O
64. L’AUDE (CARCASSONE)
Azema Death...............................................+
Girard Death...............................................+
Bonnet Death...............................................+
Ramel Death...............................................+ G
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Morin Confinement.........................................O
Tournier Confinement and banishment..........................O I
Marragon Death...............................................+
Peries Confinement and transportation......................O I
65. L’AVEYRON (RHODES)
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Camboulas Death...............................................+
Jos. Death...............................................+
la Combe
Seconds Death...............................................+
Louchet Death...............................................+
Baux Death...............................................+
Godefroy- “Eternal justice forbids us to condemn Louis to
Ysarn “to death; because it abhors aggravation, and the
“making of ex-post-facto criminal laws, in order to
“apply them to acts that are past. Now there is no
“written law which inflicts this punishment upon
“Louis for any act, before he was hurled from the
“throne into a prison. I satisfy myself in voting
“for confinement."..................................O
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St. Martin- Confinement and banishment..........................O
Valogues
Lobines Confinement and banishment..........................O
Bernard Confinement and banishment..........................O
St. Afrique
66. BOUCHES DU RHONE (AIX)
Duprat Death...............................................+ G
Rebecqui Death...............................................+ S
Barbaroux Death...............................................+ PS
Bayle Death...............................................+ I
Granet Death...............................................+ P
Gasparin Death...............................................+ G
Rovere Death...............................................+
Pelissier Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Laurent Death, with discussion as to time...................D
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Durand “I see more inconvenience in the
death of Louis,
Maillane “than in his existence.
I vote therefore for
“confinement."......................................O
Du Perret Confinement and banishment..........................O
G
67. CALVADOS (CAEN)
Bonnet Death...............................................+
Taveau Death...............................................+
Jouenne Death...............................................+
Dubois Death, only in case of invasion.....................O
Dubais
Fauchet
eveque “The convention has no right to accumulate, to
intrus “confound, and to exercise all powers. It is the
“right of tyranny alone. I may be subjected to it,
“but I never will practise (sic) it. I am no
“judge, and therefore can only vote for detention.".O G
Vardon “I declare myself incompetent.".....................nv
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L’Homond Confinement.........................................O
Doulcet,
ponte- Confinement and banishment..........................O
coulant
Cussy “I do not think that the glory or the interest of
“the French people permit them to strike a
“vanquished enemy. I vote for confinement."........O G
Le Got Confinement.........................................O
Ph. Confinement and banishment..........................O I
Belleville
Dumont Confinement and banishment..........................O
68. CANTAL (ST. FLOUR)
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Milhau Death...............................................+
La Coste Death...............................................+ I
Tarrie Death...............................................+
Peuvergue “My conscience tells me that the death of Louis
“would be prejudicial to the republic."............O
Thibault Confinement and banishment..........................O
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Meseujac Confinement and banishment..........................O
Chabanon Confinement and banishment..........................O
Jos. Maille Absent with leave...................................a
69. LA CHARENTE (ANGOULEME)
Bellegarde Death...............................................+
Chedanau Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Guinberteau Death...............................................+
Chazaud Death...............................................+ G
Brun Death...............................................+
Ribereau Death...............................................+ I
Cuvelier Death...............................................+
De Vars Confinement and banishment..........................O
Maulde Confinement and banishment..........................O
70. CHARENTE INFERIEURE (SAINTES)
Bernard Death...............................................+ I
Nion Death...............................................+
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Echasseriaux Death...............................................+
Breard Death...............................................+
Ruamps Death...............................................+ I
Lozeau Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Vinet Death...............................................+
Garnicr Death...............................................+
Giraud “As a legislator I think it most beneficial that
“Louis should live."................................O
D’Autriche “I declare that my sentiments are subject to no
“undue influence of any sort. So far are we from
“being judges as well as legislators, that you
“decided yesterday that we are not judges; I mean,
“by your resolution, that this question should be
“determined by a simple majority of votes.".........O
De Chezeau Confinement and banishment..........................O G
71. LE CHER (BOURGES)
Foucher Death...............................................+
La Brunerie Death...............................................+
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Peltier Death...............................................+
Alasseur “What says history? Caesar was assassinated, and
“had a successor. The English sacrificed their
“tyrant, and returned to their chains. Rome
“banished her kings, and had liberty. I am for
“banishment.".......................................O
Baucheton Confinement.........................................O
Dugene Confinement.........................................O
72. LA CORREZE (TULLES)
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Brival Death...............................................+
Lannot Death, with discussion as to time...................D I
Borie Death...............................................+ I
Chambon Death...............................................+ G
Lidon Death...............................................+ S
Penieres Death...............................................+
Lafond “I think it my duty to abstain from voting.” .......nv
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73. CORSE (Corsica) (BASTIA)
Salicetti Death...............................................+
Chiappe “Having nothing to do with the application of
“punishment. I consider only the security of my
“fellow citizens, which is the supreme law; in a
“word, I am for detention.".........................O
Andree “The punishment for Louis can be no other than that
“of forfeiture."....................................O
Bansio “I flatter myself that I shall deserve well of my
“country in voting for detention."..................O
Peraldi Confinement and banishment..........................O
Casabianca Provisional confinement.............................O
Mottedo Confinement.........................................O
74. COTE D’OR (DIJON)
Bazire Death...............................................+ G
Guyton- Death...............................................+
morveau
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Prieur Death...............................................+ P
Oudot Death...............................................+
Treilhard Death...............................................+
Guyot Death, with discussion as to time...................D
Berthier Death...............................................+
Lambert “That I may not accumulate all functions, I think
“it is my duty to abstain from pronouncing any
“juridical (sic) punishment.".......................O
Marcy “The convention may set itself up for a jury; but
“it can be only to judge the crime, and not the
“criminal. To pass a definitive judgment upon
“Louis is, in my opinion, an outrage against the
“definitive will of the nation. To pronounce
“sentence of death, is an usurpation of the right
“of the Sovereign. I will not be a judge—I
“cannot, and I ought not to be one.
" Representatives of the people! You have
“destroyed the despot; suffer the man to live. Let
“him drag in captivity a groveling life. You are
“the depositaries of French honour. Europe has her
“eyes upon you. Posterity is advancing. It will
“judge you, and its voice will pass through ages.” .O
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Rameau “It is not in your power to give
me the quality of
“judge,
which I have not received from the
“sovereign.
Accordingly I do not think myself
“bound
by this monstrous decree.” ..................O
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75. COTES DU NORD (ST. BRIEUX)
Londe Death...............................................+
Couppe “Of the two punishments proposed to be inflicted on
“Louis, I choose the mildest, that is detention."...O
Champeaux “My constituents have deputed me to make laws, and
“not to judge.".....................................O
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Guyomard “The re-union of all powers characterises
“despotism,
whether it be in an individual, or in a
“body
of men. It is bad policy to multiply the
“number
of our enemies fourfold, and to lavish the
“blood
of our brethren. Shall we then, by
“punishing
Louis, augment the list of victims still
“more?
I vote for confinement.".............. .....O
Gondelin “I am not afraid of menaces.
I am ready to
“sacrifice
my blood for my country. I vote,
“according
to my conscience, for detention."........O
Gautier, Perpetual confinement...............................O
le jeune
Fleury Perpetual confinement...............................O
I
Giraud Perpetual confinement...............................O
76. LA CREUSE (GUERET)
Huguet Death...............................................+ I
Guyes Death...............................................+
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De Bourges “In my capacity as legislator,
I am unwilling to
“deliberate
and to give my vote upon the question,
“what
punishment shall be inflicted on Louis."......O
Tenier “As history teaches, that from
the ashes of one
“king
another springs up, I vote for detention."....O
Coutisson Confinement.........................................O
Jaurand Confinement.........................................O
Baraillon, Provisional confinement.............................O
physician
77. LA DORDOGNE (PERIGUEUX)
La Marque Death...............................................+ I
Pinet Death...............................................+
Lacoste Death...............................................+
Taillefer Death...............................................+ P
Peussard Death...............................................+ I
Allafort Death...............................................+
Lambert Confinement.........................................O
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Bouquier Death...............................................+
Roux- Death...............................................+
fazillac
Meynard “My reason tells me, that I cannot both make and
“apply the law; it tells me, that I cannot destroy
“the effect of the law, in order to substitute my
“own will in its place; it tells me in short, that
“the blending of powers is too arbitrary for the
“government of a free people, and that I ought not
“to vote, but (as a measure of public safety) for
“provisional confinement.” .........................O
78. DOUBS (BESANCON)
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Michaud Death...............................................+
Vernety Death...............................................+
Monnot Death...............................................+
Besson Death...............................................+
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Guyrot “I do not condemn Louis to death,
because, when I
“open
the penal code, I see that other forms were
“necessary,
other judges, and other principles.
“I
am for confinement.".................... ........O
Seguin Confinement, and banishment.........................O
79. LA DROME (ROMANS)
Julien Death...............................................+ I
Santeyra Death...............................................+
Boisset Death...............................................+
Jacomin Death...............................................+
Collaud de Death, in case only of invasion.....................O
la Salcette
Fayolle “I have never been satisfied that the convention
“should set itself up for a court of justice.
“Confinement."......................................O I
Martinet Confinement.........................................O
Marbos Confinement.........................................O
Gerente Confinement.........................................O
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80. L’EURE (EVREUX)
Lindet, Death...............................................+
l’aine,
eveque
intrus
Buzot Death...............................................+ P
Duroy Death...............................................+ G
Bouillerot Death...............................................+
Lindet Death...............................................+
le jeune
Richou “Foreseeing that the death of Louis will be the
“source of bitter misfortunes, I should regard
“myself as unworthy the name of citizen, if I voted
“for his punishment. Confinement and banishment."..O P
Le Marechal “That I may not be reproached with having swerved
“from my mission, and with having set an example of
“the most monstrous tyranny, I vote for
“confinement."......................................O
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Vallee “I am for provisional confinement, and for death in
“case the French territory be invaded.".............O I
Savary Confinement.........................................O I
Topsent Confinement.........................................O
81. L’EURE ET LOIRE (CHARTRES)
La Croix Death...............................................+
Brissot Death...............................................+ G
Pethion, Death...............................................+ PM
maire de
Paris
Le Sage Confinement.........................................O P
Loiseau Death, with delay...................................+
Chales Death...............................................+ P
Fremenger Death...............................................+
Giroust “Having no power to vote but as a legislator, I am
“for detention."....................................O I
Bourgeois Confinement.........................................O
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82. FINISTERRE (QUIMPER)
Boham Death...............................................+
Blad Death...............................................+ I
Guernoi Death...............................................+
Guermeur Death...............................................+
Gommaire “Considering the past events which I have seen,
“considering the present events which I now behold,
“and considering those future events which I
“apprehend, I am of opinion that the life of Louis
“is of more value to the republic than his death."..O
Marce Confinement and banishment..........................O
Queince Confinement and transportation......................O
Kervelegan “I am of the same opinion as the last.".............O
Kleber Confinement.........................................O
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83. LE GARD (NISMES)
Jal Death...............................................+
Leyris Death...............................................+
Vouland Death...............................................+ P
Chazal, Death...............................................+ I
fils
Tavernel “Death, but not until after the ratification of the
“constitution.".....................................O
Aubry The same............................................O P
Rabaut- The same............................................O G
pommier
Balla Confinement.........................................O
The Names of the above-mentioned Voters in alphabetical
order.
N.B. The figures refer to the page.
Alasseur 212 Baudran 156 Bolot 185
Carpentier le 165
Albert 182 Bansio 213 Bonguyode 157
Carpentier 173
Albite 188 Baux 206 Bonnemain 205
Carra 185
Alboys 162 Bazire 213 Bonnesoeur 165
Casabianca 213
Allafort 217 Bayle 207 Bonnet 153
Caseneuve 201
Alquier 188 Beauchamp 201 Bonnet 208
Casenave 181
Amar 156 Beaugeard 154 Bonnet 159
Castillon 153
Ambermeuil 194 Beaupre 174 Bonnet 205
Cazanies 181
Amyon 157 Beauvais 176 Bonneval 168
Caze 153
Andree 213 Becker 171 Bordas 197
Cavaignan 162
Andre (St.) 161 Beffroy 200 Borel 201
Cayla 162
Anguis 192 Belin 200 Borie 212
Chabanon 210
Ansy 162 Bellegarde 210 Boucher 176
Chabot 159
Antiboul 194 Belleville 209 Boucheron 200
Chales 221
Anthoine 171 Bentabole 182 Boudin 155
Chaillon 160
Aoust 173 Bezaud 184 Bouillerot 220
Chambon 212
Arbagast 183 Bergoin 153 Bouquier 218
Champeaux 215
Armonville 166 Bernard 190 Bourbotte 199
Champigny 156
Artigoyte D’ 158 Bernard 210 Bourdon
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161 Charbonier 194
Asselin 193 Bernard St. Bourdon 174
Charlier 166
Aubert 163 Afrique 207 Bourgeois 189
Charrel 156
Aubry 223 Bernier 191 Bourgeois 221
Chasset 183
Audoin 187 Berthier 214 Bourges (de) 217
Chatelain 199
Audrein 170 Bertucat 186 Bousquet 152
Chaumont 154
Aulnay de l’ 164 Besson 218 Boussion
162 Chauvier 185
Aulnay de l’ 164 Bezere 174 Boutrone
186 Chaux (la) 160
Azema 205 Billaud Va- Boygnes 162
Chazal 223
B. rennes
175 Breard 211 Chazaud 210
Babey 158 Bion 196 Brisson 159
Chedanau 210
Bailly de Ju- Biroteau 181 Breson 197
Chenier 187
illy 190 Bissy 167 Bretel
165 Chevalier 186
Baland 197 Blad 222 Breton (le) 154
Chevalier 201
Bailleuil 189 Blanc 166 Brissot 221
Chiappe 213
Ballivet 185 Blanval 178 Brival 212
Choudieu 164
Balla 223 Blaux 172 Brun 210
Christiani 183
Bancal 178 Blondel 204 Brunel 153
Claverie 162
Bar 171 Blutel 190 Brunerie (la) 211
Clauzel 204
Baraillon 217 BOdin 156 Buzot 220
Cledel 161
Barbaroux 207 Bodin 204 C.
Clerc (le) 159
Barety 201 Bodot 185 Cales 151
Clerc le) 164
Barras 194 Boham 222 Calon 173
Cloots 174
Barrere 179 Boileau 199 Cambaceres 153
Cochet 173
Baroche 169 Boisset 219 Cambon 153
Cochon 191
Barrott 163 Boissi-D’An- Camboulas
206 Cointe-pui
Barthelemy 159 glas 203 Campmartin 204
-raveau (le) 191
Bas (le) 177 Boissiere la 161 Campmas 193
Cointre (le) 187
Bassal 187 BOissieu 157 Camus 159
Collau de la
Baucheton 212 Bollet 177 Cappin 152
Salcette 219
Collot Derasey 155 E.
Gamon 203 d’Herbois 175 Descamps
152 Echasseriaux 211 Gantois 193
Colombel 174 Desmoulins 175 Egalite 177
Garan
Combe (la) 206 Despinassy 194 Enlard 177
-coulon 161
Combe St. Desrouais 174 Engerrand 165
Gardien 155
Michel (la) 193 Devars 210 Enjubault
167 Garilhe 203
Condorcet 200 Deydier 199 Ermann 183
Garnier 205
Comte 180 Dires 158 Escudier 194
Garnier 211
Corbel 170 Dorisy 164 Esni 167
Garnot 177
Cordier 190 Dormier 185 Espert 204
Garros 195
COrinfustier 203 Doublet 189 Eusset 184
Gasparin 207
Coste (la) 209 Douge 205 F
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Gaston 204
Couhey 197 Doulcet 209 Fabre 153
Gaudin 195
Couppe 173 Drouet 166 Fabre 181
Gautier 199
Couppe 215 Drulhe 151 Fabre d’Eg
— Gautier 216
Courtois 204 Dubarran 152 lantine 176
Gayet 163
Coustard 160 Dubibgnon 154 Fauchet 208
Gayvernon 197
Couthon 178 Dubois 174 Faure 189
Gazeau 152
Coutisson 217 Dubois 182 Faure 159
Gelin 185
Couturier 172 Dubois 203 Faye 197
Genevois 156
Crampe (la) 179 Dubois-Du- Faye 195
Genissieu 156
Creuze-la- bais 208 Fayolle 219
Gensonne 152
Tonche 196 Dubouchet 183 Fermont
154 Gentil 161
Creuze-pas- Dubreuil 191 Ferrand 179
Gerente 219 chal 196 Duchatel 192
Ferry 203 Geoffroy 191
Croix (de la)166 Ducos 152 Ferroux 157
Gertoux 180
Croix (la) 197 Ducos 158 Fevre (le) 160
Gervais-fauve 165
Croix (la) 221 Dufestel 192 Finot 199
Curee 153 Dugene 212 Fiot (le) 172
Gibergues 178
Cussy 209 Dugue-dassy 174 Figuet 200
Gillet 171
Cuvelier 210 Duhem 173 Flageas 159
Girard 195
D. Dumont
192 Fleury 217 Girard 205
Damrobe 172 Dumont 209 Florent-lou-
Girot-pou-zol 179
D’Andenac 164 Duperret 208 vet
192
D’Andenac 164 Dupin 200 Fockedey
173 Giraud 211
Dannon 179 Duplantier 153 Fonfrede 152
Giraud 216
Danton 175 Dupont 155 Forest 184
Giroust 221
David 176 Dupont 179 Fouche 160
Gleizal 202
D’Autriche 211 Duprat 207 Foucher
211 Godefroy 174
Debrie 199 Dupuis 183 Fournel 162
Gommaire 222
De Chezeau 211 Dupuis 188 Fourney 175
Goudelin 216
Delamare 174 Duquesnoi 177 Fournier 184
Goupilleau 195
Delbret 162 Durand-mail- Foussedoire 159
Goupilleau 195
Delaguelle 160 lane 208 Franc (le) 158
Gourdan 184
Delcher 159 Duroy 220 France (de) 191
Gorsas 188
Delahaye 190 Dussault 176 Fremenger 221
Goussuin 173
Delecloy 192 Dutroubour- Freron 176
Gourry 193
Delmas 151 nier 196 Fressine 159
Granet 207
Dentzell 183 Duval 154 Froger 186
Grangeneuve 152
Derbes-la- Duval 190 G. tour
202 Duval 205 Gadroy 158 Gregoire
159
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Grenot 157 Jeune (le) 155 Loiseau 221
Mellinet 160
Guadet 152 Jeune (le) 167 Loisel 200
Mercier 187
Guerin 161 Joannot 182 L’onde
215 Merlin 172
Guermeur 222 Jourdan 172 Lozeau 211
Merlin 173
Guernoi 222 Jouenne 208 Louchet 206
Merlin 199
Guffroy 177 Julien 151 Loue (la) 178
Meyer 194
Guillardin 166 Julien 219 Louis 182
Meynard 218
Guillermin 185 Just (St.) 200 Louvet 192
Meseujac 210
Guilmardet 185 K. Louvet 161
Michaud 218
Guilrault 172 Kersaint 187 M.
Michel 169
Guinberteau 210 Kervelegan 222 Maignen 195
Michel 171
Guire (la) 152 Kleber 222 Maignan (le) 164
Michel 184
Guyes 216 L. Magniez 178
Milhan 209
Guyomard 216 Lacoste 217 Maignet 181
Moine (le) 165
Guyot 214 Laignelot 176 Mailhe 151
Mollet 199
Guyrot 219 Lakanal 204 Maille 210
Molveau 168
Guyter 181 Lafond 212 Mailland
Mounel 166
Guyton-mor- Lambert 214 Durand 218
Monnot 218 veau 213 Lambert 217
Mailland (le)171 Moneson 204
H. Lalande
169 Maillv 185 Monestier 163
Hardy 189 Lanjuinais 154 Mainville 155
Monestier 178
Hardi (le) 170 Lannot 212 Maysse 202
Montant 151
Harmand 170 Lanthenas 183 Malarme 168
Montegot 181
Hauffmann 188 Laroche 163 Manuel 176
Montey (le) 158
Havin 165 Laurence 165 Marat 175
Montgilbert 185
Hecquet 190 Lauranceot 157 Marbos 219
Montmayan 162
Herard 199 Laure (du) 178 Marce 222
Moreau 185
Herault de Laurent 207 Marcy 214
Moreau 169
Sechelles 188 Lefevre 190 Marechal (le)220
Morin 206
Himbert 190 Lecointre 187 Mariette 189
Morisson 195
Homond L’ 209 Lecointe- Marque (la)
217 Mottedo, 213
Hosdiniere 174 puyraveau 191 Marquis 170
Moulin 184
Houilliere de164 Laurent 182 Marragon 206
Moysset 152
Hubert 165 Laurent 163 Martel 201
Musset 195
Hugo 198 Legendre 172 Martin St. 203
N.
Huguet 216 Legendre 175 Martin St.
Nentz 171
Humbert 170 Legot 209 Prix 193
Neveu 180
I./J. LequiniO 174
Martin St. Nioche 155
Ingrand 196 Lesterp- valogues 217
Nion 210
Isabeau 156 beauvais 196 Martineau 196
Noel 198
Isnard 194 Letourneur 186 Martinet 219
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Noel pointe 183
Izoard 201 L’Eveque 183 Marvejols
194 Noguer 163
Izore 174 Levasseur 168 Massieu 174
0.
Jacomin 219 Levasseur 186 Mauduit 190
Obelin 154
Jal 223 Leyris 223 Maure 198
Official (L’) 191
Jard pan- Leyze (de) 152 Mauld 210
OpOiX 191 viller 191 Lidon 212
Mauzel 154 Osselin 176
Jarrv 160 Lindet 220 Marade 151
Oudot 214
Jaurand 217 Lindet 220 Masuyer 185
P.
Jay 152 Lobines 207 Meaulle 160
Paganel 162
Jehon 152 Loi (la) 167 Meillant 180
Page (le) 161
Panis 176 Primaudiere 186 Ruamps 211
Thomas 174
Pastoret 154 Projean 151 Ruelle 155
Thomas 176
Padrin 184 Prost 157 Rudelle 178
Thuriot 166
Paux (le) 164 Prunel 157 S.
Tocquot 170
Payne 178 Pryese 173 Sacy (de) 151
Topsent 211
Pelissier 207 Q. Sage (le) 221
Tournier 206
Pelle 161 Queince 222 Saladin 192
ToUrneur le 165
Pellet 163 Quinette 199 Salicetti 213
Treilhard 187
Pelletier, le 198 R. Salle 168
Treilhard 214
Peltier 212 Rabaut pom- Salleles 162
Turreau 199
Pemartin 180 mier 223 Sallengtos 173
V.
Penieres 212 Rabaut St. Salmon 186
Vadier 204
Pepin 155 Etienne 205 Sanadon 180
Valaze 174
Perard 164 Raffron 176 Savornin 202
Valdruche 167
Peraldi 213 Rameau 215 Santeyra 219
Vallee 221
Peres 151 Ramel 205 Saurine 159
Valogues 207
Peres 206 Randon 163 Savary 221
Vardon 208
Perrin 197 Raynault 159 Saustrault 172
Varlet 177
Perrin 205 Real 156 Scellier 192
Vatelier 166
Personne 178 Rebecqui 207 Seconds 206
Vaublanc 157
Pethion 221 Reguis 202 Seguin 219
Venaille 159
Petit 200 Reverchon 185 Senault 173
Vergniault 152
Peussard 217 Rewbell 182 Serjeant 176
Verdallin 202
Peuvergne 209 Ribereau 210 Serres 201
Virite (de) 193
Peyz 202 Ribet 165 Serveau 167
Vermond 204
Pflieger 182 Ricard 194 Serviere 163
Vernety 218
Phelippeaux 186 Richard 186 Servonat 156
Vernier 157
Picque 180 Richou 220 Sevestre 154
Vicomterie
Pierret 205 Ritter 182 Siblot 184
(la) 175
Pilastre 164 Rivaud 197 Sillery 193
Vidalin 201
Pinel 165 Rivery 193 Simon 183
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Vidalot 162
Pinet 217 Rhull 183 Soloniac 194
Vicunet 153
Piozzy 196 Robert 176 Soubeyran 202
Vigneron 185
Plaichart Robert 203 Soubrany 178
Viguy 191 chottiere 168 Robin 204
Souhait 197 Villars 167
Plaigne (la) 151 Robespierre 175 Soulignac 197
Villiers (de)166
Planche (la) 172 Robespierre 176 Source (la) 193
Villers 160
Pocholles 188 Roche-gude 194 Syeyes 186
Villette 174
Poisson 165 Rocher (du) 194 T.
Vigee 156
Pons 169 Romme 178 Taillefer 217
Vincent 188
Porcher 155 Rouault 171 Tallien 187
Vinet 211
Porte (la) 182 Roubaud 194 Tarrie 209
Vilet 184
Portier 174 Rovere 207 Taveau 208
Vouland 223
Potrier 155 Rousseau 167 Tavernel 223
W.
Poulain 166 Roussel 169 Tellier 190
Wandelin
Poulain grand Roux 167 Tenier 217
-court 167
Pre 197 Roux-fazillac 218 Thibaut
155 Y.
Poultier 173 Rouzet 151 Thibault 209
Yger 190
Precy 199 Rouyer 153 Thibaudot 196
Ysarn Godf. 206
Pressavin 183 Royer 199 Thierrier 204
Z.
Prieur 166 Royt 187 Thirion 171
Zangiacomi 169
Prieur 214 Rualt 189
******
RESULT OF THE THIRD SCRUTINY.
PRESIDENT VERGNIAULT.
“CITIZENS!
“I am going to pronounce the sentence of
rigour against Louis. “When justice has
spoken, humanity should then make her voice heard.
“I intreat the members and the tribune to observe
profound silence. “The assembly is composed
of 745 members: 1 of these is dead—6
are “sick—2 absent without assigning
any reason—11 are absent with “leave—4
have not voted; the total is 24, which, being deducted
“from 745, there remain 721 voters, of whom the
absolute majority is “361.
“36 are for death, leaving the time of
it to be discussed hereafter.
“9 for death, with respite.
“2 for death, after a peace.
“2 for chains.
“319 for confinement.
“366 for death.
“CITIZENS,
“The punishment pronounced against Louis is
DEATH.”
******
THE APPEAL OF LOUIS XVI.
“I OWE it to my honour, I owe it to my family,
not to subscribe to an “accusation which I have
not merited. I declare therefore, that I “bring
an appeal to the nation at large from the judgment
passed “against me; and I give to my defenders
all necessary powers, in “order that this present
appeal may be inserted in the Journals of “the
Convention.”
Refused!
The ADDRESS of Mons. DE SEZE, one
of the defenders of the King, to the Convention.
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“THE ratification by the French people,
which Louis demands, “is the exercise of a natural
and sacred right which belongs to “every person
accused; it is the right of every man, and “consequently
of Louis. If we did not prefer this claim in
his “defence, it was because it was not in our
power to foresee that the “National Convention
would resolve upon judging him; or, if it did “judge
him, that it would condemn him. We now learn,
that the fatal “decree, which condemns Louis
to death, has been carried by a “majority of
five votes only. Permit me, Citizens, to represent
to “you, in the name of humanity, in the name
of that sacred principle “which calls for every
mitigation in favour of the accused, that this “circumstance,
so very extraordinary, may well engage you “voluntarily
to accede to the proposed ratification. I demand
it in “the name of justice, in the name of our
country, in the name of “humanity. Exercise
your own high powers; but do not astonish France “by
the exhibition of a judgment that must appear terrible,
when the “surprising minority comes to be considered.
“Citizens, permit me to adjure you
once more in the name of “Louis XVI. and to
conclude with suggesting to you, whether, whilst “you
are contending for the security of the nation, and
its real “interest, you will not tremble, when
you reflect, that the safety of “the republic,
the Security of the French empire, and the happiness
“of 25 millions of people, may possibly depend
upon five votes.”
******
FOURTH APPEL NOMINAL.
THE object of this fourth appeal was to know
whether the execution of Louis might be deferred;
310 were for respite, and 380 against it. Thus,
by a majority of 70 votes, it was decreed, that the
sentence against Louis XVI. should be executed without
delay.
******
THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI.
21st JANUARY, 1793.
THE minister of justice and the heads of
the administrative corps, having proceeded to the
Temple on Sunday the 20th of January, about four in
the evening, notified to Louis the warrant for his
execution. “I demand,” said the King,
“a respite of three days to “prepare myself
for appearing before God. To assist me in this
work, “I desire to have Mr. Edgeworth, (an Irish
clergyman) with whom I may “freely communicate.
I desire that he may be secured from all “uneasiness,
or apprehension, on account of this charitable office
“which he shall perform for me. I desire
to be relieved from that “perpetual watch which
the council-general has set over me for some “days.
I demand in this interval the privilege of seeing
my family “when I shall desire it, and without
witnesses. I could also wish, “that the
Convention would, as speedily as may be, set about
“determining the fate of my family, and permit
them to see each other “freely and commodiously,
when they shall think proper.
“I recommend to the liberality of the nation
all those persons who “have been attached to
me. Among my pensioners there are many aged
“men, women, and children, who have no other
means of subsistence.”
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Of all there requisitions Louis obtained only that
of seeing his family without witnesses. It was
the first time since his imprisonment. The interview
lasted two hours. It is impossible to express
the horror of the moment, when he was obliged to tear
himself away from them. On his return to his
apartment, the King passed a almost the whole of the
night in prayer. He then laid down and slept
a few hours, and early in the morning betook himself
again to prayer.
The 21st of January, at half past eight o’clock,
Santerre, the commandant-general, came to signify
to Louis the order for his going to execution.
Having requested three minutes to speak with his
confessor, he then turned to Santerre, and told him
that he was ready to follow him.
The King crossed the first court of the Temple
on foot; he then entered the coach of Pethion, the
mayor of Paris, with his Confessor and two Gendarmes.
His route lay along, the Boulevards, which were lined
with above two hundred thousand men in arms.
All the way Louis was deeply engaged in reading the
prayers appointed for persons at the point of death.
Being, arrived at the Place de Louis XV.
which was the place of execution, about ten o’clock
in the morning, he alighted from the carriage with
calmness, took off his clothes himself, remaining in
his white under-waistcoat, untied his cravat, and opened
the collar of his shirt; he then threw himself upon
his knees to receive the last benediction of his Confessor,
got up immediately after, and ascended the scaffold
alone. At that moment his Confessor cried out
to him, “Son of St. Louis, you are going up to
Heaven!” [Footnote; Other accounts state, that
it was when the King had just prepared himself for
the stroke of the fatal instrument, that Mons.
Edgeworth, his confessor, called out (in the imperative)
with a loud voice, “Enfant de Saint Louis, montez
au Ciel.” “Son of St. Louis, mount
up “to Heaven.”]
Far from opposing those who came to cut off his hair,
and bind his hands, " Do with me,” said he,
“what you will, it is the last “sacrifice.”
He then made a motion with his hand to obtain “silence.—“I
die perfectly innocent of all the pretended crimes
laid “to my charge—I forgive all
those who have had any hand in my “misfortunes,
and I pray that my blood may be of use in restoring
“happiness to France--and you, unhappy people!”
......
At these words, the unfeeling Santerre gave orders
that the drums should beat, crying out to the King,
“that he had not brought him “there to
declaim, but to die.” At that instant his
head was severed from his body! ......
The corpse was immediately conveyed to the Magdalene
burying-ground, and thrown into a pit twelve feet deep,
into which a considerable quantity of quicklime was
cast.
It is said, that after crying out, “Vive
la Nation!” “Vive la Republique!”
some volunteers dipped their pikes, and others their
handkerchiefs, in the blood of the victim. One
person alone had the courage to cry out, Grace,
and was instantly cut down with a sabre.
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Thus died Louis XVI. King of France and Navarre.
He was born the 23d of August, 1754, ascended the
throne the 10th of May, 1774, and reigned eighteen
years and three months.
******
The following dates relative to the destiny of
this prince have been brought together and contrasted.
21st April, 1770, Marriage of Louis at Vienna,
and delivery of the ring.
21st June, 1770, Great rejoicings at Paris on account
of his marriage.
21st January, 1772, Festival doings in the city
on account of the birth of the first Dauphin.
21st June, 1791, The King’s departure, or
rather flight to Varennes.
21st September, 1792, Abolition
of Royalty.
21st January, 1793, Louis beheaded.
******
THE LAST WILL OF LOUIS XV1.
IN the name of the most holy Trinity, Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost, this day, the 25th of December, 1792,
I, Louis XVI. by name, King of France, having been
four months shut up with my family in the Tower of
the Temple, at Paris, by those who were my subjects,
and deprived of all communication whatever, even,
since the 11th of this month, with my family; being
moreover involved in a trial, of which it is impossible
to foresee the issue, on account of the passions of
men, and for which there is no pretence nor motive
in any existing law, having none but God for witness
to my thoughts, and to whom I can address myself,
I here declare, in his presence, my last will and
sentiments.
I leave my soul to GOD my creator; I beseech him
to receive it in his mercy; not to judge it according
to its merits, but to those of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who offered himself as a sacrifice to GOD his Father
for us men, unworthy of it as we are, and I more than
any.
I die in the faith of our holy mother the catholic,
apostolic, and Roman Church, which derives her powers
in an uninterrupted succession from St. Peter, to
whom Jesus Christ had entrusted them; I firmly believe
and acknowledge all that is contained in the apostles’
creed, the commandments of God, and of the church;
the sacraments and mysteries, such the Catholic Church
teaches, and has always taught them; I never pretended,
to be a judge of the different modes of explaining
the dogmas which divide the church of Jesus Christ;
but I have always trusted, and shall always trust,
if God grants me life, to the decisions that the ecclesiastical
superiors, together with the holy catholic church,
give and shall give, according to the discipline of
the church since Jesus Christ. I pity with all
my heart our brethren who may be in error, but I do
not pretend to judge them; nor do I love them the
less in Jesus Christ, according to what christian
charity teaches us, and I pray God to forgive me all
my sins: I have scrupulously sought to know them,
to detest them, and to humble myself in his presence.
Not being permitted to make use of the ministry of
a catholic priest, I pray God to receive the confession
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which I have made to him of them; and above all, my
sincere repentance for having put my name (though against
my will) to acts that may be contrary to the discipline
and faith of the catholic church, to which I have
always been sincerely and faithfully united.
I pray God to accept my firm resolution, if he grants
me life, to make use as soon as possible of the ministry
of a catholic priest, that I may accuse myself of
all my sins, and receive the sacrament of penance.
I beseech all those whom I may have inadvertently
offended, (for I do not remember to have knowingly
given offence to any person) and those to whom I may
have given bad examples, or caused scandal, to forgive
the injuries they think I may have done them.
I implore all charitable persons to join their
prayers to mine, to obtain from God the pardon of
my sins; I, with all my heart, forgive those who are
become my enemies, although I have not given them any
reason to be so; and I beseech God to forgive them,
as well as those who, through a false or mistaken
zeal, have brought many misfortunes on me.
I recommend to God, my wife and children; my sisters,
my aunts, my brothers, and all those who are attached
to me, either by the ties of blood, or in any other
way whatever. I particularly beseech God to
cast a merciful eye on my wife, my children, and my
sister, who have long suffered with me, to support
them by his grace, if they should happen to lose me,
and as long as they remain in this perishable world.
I recommend my children to my wife; I never doubted
her maternal tenderness for them. I above all
recommend to her to make them good christians, and
honest people; to make them consider the grandeurs
of this world (if they be condemned to possess them)
only as dangerous and perishable possessions, and
to direct their attention to Eternity, the only solid
and durable glory. I beg of my sister to continue
her tenderness to my children, and to be a mother to
them, if they should have the misfortune of losing
her who is such.
I intreat my wife to forgive me all the afflictions
she suffers for my sake, and the sorrows I may have
given her in the course of our union; as she may be
certain that I have no fault to find with her, even
where she may think she has cause to reproach herself.
I earnestly recommend to my children, after what
they owe to God, (which is the first of all duties)
to live always in harmony with one another, to be
submissive and obedient to their mother, and grateful
to her for all the care and trouble she takes for them
out of regard to my memory. I desire them to
consider my sister as their second mother.
I recommend to my Son, if he has the misfortune
to become King, to remember that he owes himself entirely
to his fellow citizens; that he must forget all hatred
and resentment, and particularly all that relates
to the misfortunes and afflictions that I endure; that
he can only make the people happy by reigning according
to the laws, but at the same time, that a King cannot
make himself respected, and do all the good he wishes,
without having the necessary authority; and that otherwise,
being restrained in his operations, and not inspiring
respect, he is rather hurtful than useful.
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I recommend to my son to take as much care of all
those persons who were attached to me, as the circumstances
he may be in will allow him; to recollect that it
is a sacred debt which I have contracted towards the
children or the relations of those who have died for
me, and those who suffer for my sake. I know
that there are several persons among those who ought
to have been attached to me, who have not acted towards
me as they ought, and have even been ungrateful towards
me; but I forgive them, (often in time of trouble and
confusion, men are not masters of themselves) and I
beg my son, if he finds the opportunity, to think
only of their misfortunes.
I wish I could here give a testimony of my gratitude
to those who have shown a true and disinterested affection
for me. If, on the one hand, I have been sensibly
affected with the ingratitude and disloyalty of those,
to whom I had shewn at all times only kindness to
them, their relations, or friends; on the other hand,
I have had the consolation to receive proofs of disinterested
affection and regard from several others. I
beg them to accept my best thanks.
In the present state of things, I should fear to
expose them if I spoke more explicitly; but I particularly
recommend to my son to embrace every opportunity of
discovering them.
Nevertheless, I think I should wrong the national
feeling, if I were not openly to recommend to my son
Messieurs De Chamilly and Hue, whose sincere affection
for me induced them to shut themselves up with me
in this melancholy abode, and who ran the risque (sic)
of being the unfortunate victims of their attachment.
I also recommend Cleri, with whose attentions I have
had all reasons to be satisfied ever since he has
been with me. As he is the person who has remained
with me to the last, I request Messieurs de la Commune
to give him my clothes, my books, and the other trifles
which have been deposited at the Council of the Commune.
I also very willingly forgive those who guarded
me, for their ill treatment, and the constraint which
they thought necessary to keep me under. I have
found some feeling and compassionate minds; may they
enjoy in their hearts the pleasure that their turn
of thinking must afford them.
I request Messieurs De Malsherbes, Tronchet, and
De Seze, to receive my best thanks, and assurances
of my gratitude for all the care and attention they
have shown me.
I conclude with declaring before GOD, being ready
to appear before him, that I cannot reproach myself
with any of those crimes that have been laid to my
charge.
Made and copied in the Tower of the Temple, the
25th of December, 1792.
(Signed)
LOUIS.
And undersigned
BEAUDRAIS, Municipal Officer.
******
A LIST
OF MANY OF THE
MOST CONSIDERABLE SUFFERERS
UNDER THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION
Note. The letter R at the head of a name Signifies
Revolutionary; D means doubtful, i.e. a character
not fully known; L signifies Loyalist, and an innocent
victim. The letters at the end of a name signify
A assassinated; I imprisoned; G guillotined; M massacred;
P proscribed; S suicide.
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L De Favras, knight of the order of St. Louis
G
R De Clermont-Tonnere, mareschal of France, ex-constituent;
that
is, member of the first national
assembly M
L De Clermont-d’Amboise, cordon bleu; i.e.
knight of the Holy
Ghost
G
L D’Halouville, sub-governor of the dauphin
M
L Le Vicomte de Maille, mareschal-de-camp
M
R Le Due de la Rochefoucault, ex-constituent
M
L Le Vicomte de Broves, colonel, ex-constituent
M
L The celebrated Durosoy, compiler of the Paris Gazette
G
L Delaporte, intendant of the civil list
G
L L’Abbe Rastignac, an author and ex-constituent
M
L L’Abbe Lenfant, preacher to the King
M
L The prisoners of the Convent des Carmes, to the
number of 140 M
L The prisoners of l’Abbaye St. Germain, to
the number of 162 M
L The prisoners in seminary of St. Fermin, to the
number of 92 M
D The prisoners in the Hotel de la Force, 167
M
D The prisoners of the Grand Chatelet, 214
M
D The prisoners in the Conciergerie, 85
M
D The prisoners of the Castle of Bicetre, 153
M
L The prisoners of the Cloister of the Bernardins,
73 M
L The prisoners from Orleans butchered at Versailles,
57 M
L Le Comte de Montmorin, minister and secretary of
state M
L Dulau, Archbishop of Arles
M
L De la Rochefoucault, bishop of Beauvais
M
L De la Rochefoucault, bishop of Saintes
M
L L’Abbe de Puysegur, vicar-general of Rheims
M
L De la Mothe, body-guard of the Count D’Artois
M
L The Princess de Lamballe
M
L The Marquis de Montmorin, governor of Fontainebleau
M
L Delessart, minister and secretary of state
M
L The Duke de Brissac, marechal de France
M
L The bishop of Mendes
M
R Mounier, president of the constituent assembly
P
R The two brothers Lameth, ex-constituents
P
R All the members du cote gauche of the first
assembly, i.e.
those who were originally for the
revolution, and distinguished
themselves by sitting on the left
side of the hall P
Louis XVI. the object of lamentation
to every true Frenchman G
R Basseville, agent of the republic at Rome
M
R General Marquis de la Fayette, ex-constituent
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I
R General Winphen, ex-constituent
P
L The Marquis d’Angremont
G
L De Blackmann, major of the Swiss guards
G
L De Cazotte, a man of letters, upwards of 80 years
of age G
R General Montesquieu, ex-constituent
P
R The celebrated Count Mirabeau, expelled from the
pantheon.
(Depantheonise.)
R Chabroud, advocate to the Duke of Orleans, ex-constituent
P
D Le Comte de Tally Tollendal, ex-constituent
P
D Le Comte de Cazales, ex-constituent
P
D Baron de Beaumarchais, author of Figaro
P
L D’Abancourt, minister of war
M
R Duperron, administrator of police
M
L Thierry, principal valet de chambre of the King
M
L Chantraine, master of the wardrobe to the King
M
D De Rhuliers, commandant of the household cavalry,
(la
gendarmerie a cheval)
M
L Dom. Chevreux, general of the benedictines
M
L De St. Palaye, counsellor (sic) of the chamber
of accompts M
L Maussabre, aide-du-camp to the Duke de Brissac
M
R Desmarais, chief in the office of assignats
M
R Amelot, director of the Caisse de l’Extra-ordinaire
M
R Garat, cashier of the public treasure
M
L Hebert, general of the Eudists, (a monastic order)
and confessor
to the King
M
L Depres, vicar-general of Paris
M
L Langlade, vicar-general of Rouen
M
L Bonneau, vicar-general of Lyons
M
L Defoucault, vicar-general of Arles
M
L Defargue vicar-general of Toulon
M
L Delubersac, almoner to the King’s sisters
M
L Turmenyes, grand master of Navarre
M
L Comte de St. Mart, colonel
M
L Dewittgestein, lieutenant-general and cordon rouge,
i.e.
commander of the order of St. Louis
M
L The Abbe de Boisgelin, agent-general of the clergy
of France M
L Thirty Swiss officers
M
L De Rohan Chabot, brother of the Prince of Leon
M
L Dechamplost, principal valet de chambre of the
King M
L Thirty officers of the King’s guards
M
D Romainvilliers, chef de division
M
L Decharnois, a man of letters
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M
D Delachesnaye, chef de division
M
R General Dumourier
P
R De Bournonville, minister of war
I
R General Dillon
M
R The two sons of the Duke of Orleans
P
L De Blanchelande, governor of St. Domingo
G
R De Perigord, bishop of Autun, first author of the
schism in
France
P
R Charlotte Corday, who assassinated Marat
G
R General Paoli, of Corsica
P
R General Custine, ex-constituent
G
R The intruding bishop of Ausch
P
R General Guetineau
G
R General Servan
P
R General Biron
G
L Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
G
R The Duke of Orleans, called Egalite
G
R Bailly, ex-constituent and first mayor of
G
R Roland minister of justice at the time of the King’s
trial S
R Madame Roland, his wife
G
L Duchesne, intendant of Madame
G
R General Houchard
G
R General Roule
G
L Gilbert Desvoisins, president of the parliament
of Paris G
R Ysambert, brigadier-general of the republican army
G
D The two brothers Raba, Jews of Bourdeaux, worth
a million G
D The mother-in-law, of Pethion, the mayor of Paris
G
R General Brunet
G
L Delaverdy, comptroller-general of the finances
G
L About thirty thousand French gentlemen emigrated.
L Near sixty thousand ecclesiastics transported out
of France
R General la Morliere
G
L De Berulle, first president of the parliament of
Grenoble G
D Harrop of London, a merchant in Paris
G
R Barnave, advocate, ex-constituent
G
R Duport-dutertre, ex-minister of justice
G
R Emmery, president at the time of administering
the oath; a jew G
L The Countess du Barry, mistress of Louis XV.
G
D The Duke du Chatelet, colonel of the French guards
G
R Le Brun, ex-minister of the home department
G
D Dietrick, mayor of Strasbourg
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G
R General Arthur Dillon
G
R General Beauregard
P
R Garat, minister of the republic
G
R Champfort, of the French academy
S
R Hydius, depute suppleant, i.e. one chosen
to supply a vacancy S
R Clavieres, minister of public contributions
S
R Luckner, revolutionary marshal of France
G
D The son of General Custine, aged 25 years
G
R General Stengel
P
R Delomenie, archbishop of Sens, decardinalise,
degraded from
the dignity of cardinal
S
L De Champenetre, an officer of the French guards
G
R General Ferriere
P
D Jolly, ex-minister of finances
P
L Boucher d’Argis, lieutenant criminel (sic)
Chatelet de Paris G
R General la Vallette
P
R General 0-moran
P
R General Beauharnois
P
R General Ferrand
P
R General Landremont
P
R General Schomberg
G
R General Beysser
G
R General Hedonville
P
R General Dumesnil
P
R General Demars
P
R General Barthelemy
P
R General Protaux
M
L Clery, a person in the King’s confidence
I
R Anacharsis Cloots, called the orator of mankind
G
R Chauvelin, ambassador in England
P
R General Duhoux
P
L Some thousands of victims at Lyons
G
L Similar victims in thousands at Toulon
G
L The Countess of Lauraguais
G
L The Count of Troussebois, lieutenant-colonel
G
L The Prince Jules de Rohan
I
L The Duke and Duchess of Luynes
I
L The Duchess of Montmorency
I
R General Le Tanducre
I
R General D’Ortoman
I
L De Levis, marshal of France
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I
L The Prince Charles of Hesse D’Armstadt
I
L Gueau de Reverseau, intendant of the finances
G
R The Countess de Genlis
P
R General Westermann
G
L The Duchess of Richlieu
I
L Duchaffaud, lieutenant-general of the naval forces
M
R La Mourette, intruding bishop of Lyons
G
L Maussion intendant of Rouen
G
L The Countess de la Rochefoucault
G
R Chapelier, advocate at Rennes, ex-constituent
G
R Viscount de la Roque
G
L Count de Chateau-vieux, cordon-rouge
G
R Charrier de la Roche, intruding bishop of Rouen
G
R De Quincon, ex-constituent
G
R Buffet, ex-constituent
G
R Perisse du Luc, ex-constituent
G
L The Princess of Monaco
I
L Countess of Choiseul
I
R General Carteaux
I
D Count de Choiseul la Baume
I
L Marquis of Briant, lieutenant-general in the King’s
army I
L Le Marquis de Pujet
G
R Hebert, national agent
G
R Roncin, commander of the revolutionary army
G
R Montmoro, administrator of the department of Paris
G
R Dubuisson, commissary of the executive power
G
L Comte de Balleroy, lieutenant-general
G
R Gouttes, intruding bishop of Autun
G
L De Champcenetz, governor of the Tuilleries
I
R Antonelle, mayor of Arles, ex-constituent
I
R General Santerre
I
R Deforgues, minister of the republic
I
R The Abbe d’Espagnac
G
L De Chamberon, carmelite of St. Denis
G
L Dom. Courtin, superior general of Clugny
G
L De Tourzell governess of the royal children
I
L De Tourzel, the son and daughter of the foregoing
I
L Le Comte de Querhoent, marechal du camp
G
L De Vergennes, formerly minister of foreign affairs
I
L De Vergennes, his son
I
L La Tour du Pin, formerly minister at war
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I
L Madame Chauvelin de la Bourdonnois
I
L The Duchess de Charost
I
R Clavieres, brother of the ex-minister
I
L Pelletier de Rosambeau, president of the parliament
of Paris G
L Devendeuil, director of the India Company
I
L Delahaye, farmer-general
G
L The Abbe Maury, brother of the cardinal of that
name G
L The Countess de Suffren
I
L The Count de Raincourt, lieut.-general
I
R Thouret, advocate of Rouen, ex-constituent
G
L The Marquis Delamotte-Senoux
G
L The Marquis de St. Germain d’Apehon, colonel
G
R Pare, ex-minister of the home-department
I
R Gobet, intruding bishop of Paris
G
R Chaumette, procureur of la commune de Paris
G
R The wife of Camile Desmoulins, the journalist
G
R The wife of Montmoro, the first goddess of reason
G
R The wife of Hebert, national agent
G
R Grammont, comedian and adjutant in the army
G
R Lacroix, commissary of the executive power
G
R Chevalier de St. Huruge, a flaming revolutionist
I
L Count D’Aubusson, cordon rouge
I
R Van Eupen, a Brabanter
G
L De Sarron, De Gourgues, De Champlatreux and D’Ormessen,
all
four presidents of the parliament
of Paris G
L The Marquis de la Roche Lambert
I
L Madame de Choiseul-Meuse
I
L De la Borde, banker to the court
G
R General Hoche
I
R The Duke de Bethune Charost
G
L De Beausset, lawful bishop of Alais
I
R Selle, inspector-general of the military effects
of the army G
L The, Countess de Montmorin
I
R General Ramel
G
R Vincent, national agent
G
L De Cheville, intendant d’Orleans
I
L Duval D’Espremenil, counsellor of the parliament
of Paris and
ex-constituent
G
L Madame Joly de Fleury, lady of the advocate-general
G
L De Malsherbe, counsellor of state and one of the
defenders of
Louis
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G
L Mademoiselle de Malsherbe
G
L Marquis de Chateau Briant
G
L The Marchioness de Chateau Briant
G
L Duchess du Chatelet
G
L Duchess de Grammont
G
L Anisson du Perron, printer to the King
G
L Mademoiselle de Bethissy, 17 years of age
I
D The wife of General Schomberg
I
R The father of General Santerre
I
L The Duke de Villeroy, first captain of the body-guards
G
R Count D’Estaing, vice-admiral of France
G
L Count de la Tour du Pin, lieut.-general
G
R Count de Bethune Charost
G
D Count du Prat, colonel
G
L De Crosne, intendant of Rouen, and formerly lieutenant
of police
at Paris
G
L De Nicolai, president of the grand council
G
L Angran, lieutenant civil de Paris
G
L The Countess du Bussy
G
L Terray, intendant de Lyon
G
L Madame Terray, his lady
G
R Coffinel, solicitor of the Queen’s trial,
and judge of the
revolutionary tribunal
G
L Troussebois de Bellesise, a canoness, aged 81 years
G
R Jourdan, of Avignon, surnamed Coupe-tete
G
R Grouvelle, agent for Denmark, and registrar of
the convention at
the time of the King’s death
P
R Le Flotte, minister of the republic
I
R Du Fourney, a furious jacobin
P
L Marquis de Choiseul la Baum, and his steward
G
L De Willerval, knight of St. Louis
G
D Count de Levis, colonel, ex-constituent
G
R Picquet, aide-de-camp to General La Fayette
G
D The two Tassins, famous bankers in Paris
G
L Count de Sombreuil, governor of the invalids, and
his son G
L The Prince de Rohan Rochefort
I
D The Comte de Laval Montmorency
I
R Servaux, agent to the committee of general safety
I
D Musquinet de la Fage
G
L Gattey, bookseller in Paris
G
D De Tolozan, general of brigade
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I
L Thorin de la Thane, captain in the Swiss guards
I
L Gigot Boisbernier, canon of Sens
I
L Ariaque de Guybeville, honorary president of the
parliament of
Paris
G
L Gougenet, governor of the India company
G
L Du Chillan, marechal du camp
G
L Le Noir, formerly lieutenant de police in Paris
G
R La Ville, member of the revolutionary committee
G
R La Peize, member of the revolutionary committee
G
L Duport, counsellor of the parliament of Paris
G
L Camus de la Ribourgere
G
L The president Roland
G
L The president Hocquart
G
L The Count de Blin
G
L Le pere D’Anquetil, an author
I
R Schneider, public accuser at Strasburgh
G
R General Chapuis
I
L De Pommeuse, counsellor of the great chamber
G
R General Goguet
M
R The brother of Hebert, national agent
I
R The two brothers of the ex-minister Du-Portail
G
L The Marquis de Jancourt, ex-constituent
G
D Almost all the farmers general
G
Madame Elizabeth of France, sister
of Louis XVI. G
L The Count de Sourdeval
G
D The Count Lomenie de Brienne, minister of war
G
R De Lomenie, coadjutor of Sens
G
R Chevalier de Lomenie
G
D Le Comte de Lomenie, colonel
G
L De Serilly, treasurer at war
G
L De Serilly, major of Swiss guards
G
L Chambertrand, dean and vicar-general of Sens
G
L The Marchioness de l’Aigle
G
L The Marchioness de Senozan
G
L The Marchioness de Crussot d’Amboise
G
L The Countess de Montmorin
G
L The Countess de Rossay
G
L Madame de Serilly, aged 31
G
L A great number of religieuses, (nuns)
G
R Pache, mayor of Paris
I
R Ansi, ex-legislator
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I
L De Beauvilliers, and his wife
I
R L’Huillier, national agent
S
L The Count de Lastie
I
R The brother of General Santerre
I
R Moreau, adjutant of the army
G
D De Marguerite, mayor of Nismes, ex-constituent
G
R General Haxo
S
R General Moulin
S
L Brillon de St. Cyr, maitre des comptes
G
L Beller, auditor of accounts
G
R General Charbonnier
I
D Count de Levis Mirepoix, ex-constituent
G
L De Vigneron, president of the parliament of Nancy
G
R Donadieu, general of brigade
G
L The Marquis d’Apremont
G
D The Marquis de Bieville, and his son
G
L The Marquis de Trans
G
L The Viscount de la Vallette
G
D William Newton, an Englishman
G
D The Baron de Marguerite
G
L Fourteen members of the parliament of Toulouse
G
L The Prince de Rohan Rochefort
G
D The Count de Laval Montmorency
G
D The Count de Pons
G
L De Sartine, son of the heretofore minister of state
G
L Madame de St. Amaranthe
G
L The Prince de St. Maurice
G
L The Viscount de Boissancourt
G
L The widow of Mons. D’Espremenil
G
R Michonis, municipal officer of Paris
G
L The Count de Mesnil
G
D Defreteau, counsellor of the parliament of Paris,
ex-constituent
G
R Dom. Gerle, a Carthusian, ex-constituent
I
R Quevremont, physician to Egalite
I
D The Marquis de Chassenet
I
R The wife, the daughter, and the son-in-law of the
mayor Pache I
R Ginguenet, a patriotic poet
I
L De Rosset, count de Fleury
G
L The Abbe Tremouille, grand dean of Strasbourg
G
L The Count de Gamaches, standard-bearer of the horse-guards
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G
L De Briffeuil, ecclesiastical counsellor of the
great chamber of
Paris
G
L Le Brasseur, formerly intendant of the marine
G
L Eleven new members of the parliament of Toulouse
G
L Peruchot, directeur des fermes
G
L De Varennes, formerly major of infantry
G
R The celebrated advocate Linguet
G
L Twenty-two young ladies, from 17 to 25 years of
age G
L De Mouchy, marshal of France
G
L The lady of the Marshal de Mouchy
G
L The lady of the Marshal de Biron
G
D The widow of the General Biron
G
R Victor de Broglie, ex-constituent
G
L De St. Priest brother of the heretofore minister
G
R Phillippe, a deputy suppleant
I
L The Count de Polastron
G
L The Marquis de la Guiche
I
L Lambert, formerly comptroller-general of the finances
G
L Chamilly, valet de chambre to the King
G
L Madame du Portal, abbess of Joui
G
L The Marquis de St. Didier
G
R Two of the legionary chiefs of the national guard
G
L Pichard, president of Bourdeaux
G
L Vicq. D’Asyr, a celebrated physician
at Paris G
R D’Aoust, De Lattre and Du Verger, three generals
of the
republican army
G
L The Abbe de Salignac de Fenelon, aged 85 years
G
L De Fenelon, son of the ambassador at the Hague
G
L De Bacquencourt, counsellor of state
G
L The duke de Gesvres, cordon bleu
G
L The Prince d’Henin, captain of the guards
of the Count d’Artois G
L De Nicolas, president of the chamber of accounts
G
L Ysabeau de Mouvel, registrar of the parliament
G
L De la Baume, marechal du camp
G
L De Boisgelin, marechal du camp
G
L Ten young women not more than twenty years of age
G
L Two young men of 14 and 17 years (fate not stated-Editor)
L The Marquis de la Roche du Maine
G
L De Giac, maitre de requetes
G
L The Count de Chastenier
G
L Debesse, bailly de Malthe
G
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L From the 5th to the 10th Of July, 1794 are reckoned
295 persons G
L The Viscount de Damas, and his son
G
L De Verdieres, general-officer
G
L De L’Aupespine, canon of St. Claud
G
L Random de la Tour, treasurer of the King’s
household G
L De Boisgelin, cordon bleu, and his wife
G
L The Abbe Royer, counsellor of state
G
L The Abbe Radix, counsellor in the parliament of
Paris G
L Geoffroi D’Assy, cashier of the general receipts
G
L De Penant, president of the chamber of accounts
G
L De Penant, president of the court of Aides, and
his son G
L Dom. Nonan, prior of the Carthusians at Paris
G
L The Chevalier de Puyvert, officer of the navy
G
L The son of the immortal Buffon
G
L Macdonald, colonel of the regiment de Foix
G
L Rapin Thoyras, captain of artillery
G
L De Montarly, captain of infantry
G
L Clermont, mayor of Salines, ex-constituent
G
R Marcandier, journalist of Paris
G
R La Croix, member of the committee de Surveillance
G
D Imbert, officer of the Marechaussee
G
L Le Comte de Faudoas, captain of cavalry
G
L The daughter of the above, aged eighteen years
G
L Souchet d’Alvinant, governor of the King’s
pages G
L Rousseau, fencing-master to the royal children
G
L Huet d’Ambrun, maitre de requetes’
G
L La Chapelle, commissary of the King’s houshold
(sic) G
L Sixteen Carmelites of Compeigne (sic)
G
L Conin de St. Luc, president of the parliament of
Bretagne G
R Legris, registrar of the revolutionary tribunal
G
L De Blancheland, son of the governor of St. Domingo,
aged
20 years
G
L The lady of the Marshal de Noailles, aged 70 years
G
L The lady of Viscount de Noailles, aged 35
G
L The Dutchess d’Ayen, aged 57 years
G
L De Talaru, cordon rouge
G
L The Marquis de la Roche Lambert
G
L Boutin, formerly treasurer of the navy
G
L La Borde, farmer-general
G
L Lassond des Essarts, chef d’escadron
G
R General de Flers
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G
R Gossin, ex-constituent
G
D The Marchioness de la Fayette
I
L The Baron St. Ouin
G
L Perrot, president of la Cour des Aides
G
L Perrot, president of the chamber of accompts
G
L De la Morelle, president of the great council
G
L The son of Morelle, aged 18 years
G
L Papillon de la Ferte, comptroller of the privy-purse
G
L Count de Hauteford
G
L De Carboniere, canon and count of St. Claude
G
L Madame de Montmorency, abbess of Montmartre
G
L The lady of Marshal de Levis
G
L Marquis d’Harbouville
G
L The Baroness d’Hinnisdal
G
L Tardien-Malessy, mareschal de camp
G
L The Countess des Vieux
G
L The wife and daughter of Mareschal Tardien Malessy
G
L The Baron de Blaizel
G
L D’Ornano, mareschal de camp
G
D De Nicolai, son of the president, aged 24 years
G
L Moreau, architect of the city of Paris
G
L Melin, formerly clerk of the war-office
G
L Geoffrey d’Assy cashier-general of the finances
G
L De la Chalotais, procureur-general of the parliament
of Rennes G
L The Count de Menil-durand
G
L De Pernot, mareschal de camp, aged 80
G
L Durand de Bignel, colonel of 100 Swiss
G
L The son of the Viscount de Mille
G
L Count D’Ailly
G
L De Champagney, colonel of the regiment de Flandres
G
L De Goudrecourt, lieutenant of the King’s
guard G
D Edelman, a celebrated musician
G
L An hundred and fifty-one persons at Rennes
G
R The Deputy Le Bas
G
L The Count de Forestier
G
L The Viscount de Gavrey
G
L The Prince de Mont-Bason de Rohan
G
R Gouy d’Arcy, ex-noble, ex-constituent
G
R Du Salm Kirbourgh, sovereign prince in Germany
G
R General Beauharnois
G
L Baron Trenck
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G
R Chenier, author of the tragedy of Cha. IX.
G
L The Marquis de Montalambert
G
D Crequi de Montmorency
G
D The Duke de Clermont-Tonnere
G
L The Marquis de Crussol d’Amboise
G
L The Countess d’Ossun
G
L De St. Simon, bishop of Agde
G
L The Count de Thiars
G
L The Countess de Narbonne Pellet
G
L The Princess Grimaldi-Monaco
G
L The Marquis d’Usson
G
L The two Trudaines, counsellors of the parliament
of Paris G
L The Countess de Perigord
G
L The lady of the Mareschal D’Armentieres
G
L The Comte de Soyecourt
G
L The Princess de Chimay
G
L The Marquis de Carcado
G
R Hauriot and La Vallette, commandants of the armed
force at Paris G
L The Duke of St. Aignan
G
L The Duchess of St. Aignan
G
R Dumas, president of the revolutionary tribunal
G
R Lescot-Fleuriot, mayor of Paris
G
R Payan, president of the commune de Paris
G
R Vivier, criminal judge, and president of the jacobinS
G
R Simon, a Shoemaker, preceptor to Louis XVII.
G
R Eighty municipal officers of Paris
G
R One deputy, a commissioner with the army
G
R One patriotic general officer
G
R Maximilien Robespierre, advocate of Arras, ex-constituent,
and
member of the convention, who enjoyed
for a long time the
absolute power of a dictator, aged
35 years G
R George Couthon, advocate of Clermont, and member
of the
convention, aged 38 years
G
R De St. Just, ex-noble, member of the convention,
aged 26 years G
R Robespierre, the younger, advocate of Arras, and
member of the
convention, aged 27 years
G
R Le Mounier, one of the principal actors in the
massacre Of 2d of
September, 1792
G
R The Baron de la Tude
G
L The Prince de Talmont
G
R General La Poype
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P
L De Sablonnay, marechal de camp
G
L The Viscount de Meleur
G
L Le Baron de Clermont-Tonnere
G
L The son of General Precy
G
R Coffinel, judge of the revolutionary tribunal
G
R Fouquier Tinville, public accuser
G
R Le Bon, deputy of the convention
G
L The Marquis de Beauvoir
G
R Guillotin, ex-constituent
G
R De la Harpe, literateur
I
R L’Abbe de Lille
I
R Van-Eupen, Brabancon
G
R General Turreau
P
R Carrier, deputy of the convention
G
R 106 Jacobins of Marseilles
G
R General Dugommier
M
R Bouchotte, war minister
I
R Trial, comedian
G
R General Polier
M
Admiral Martin
G
R 130 Jacobins of Lyons
M
R Goujon, deputy of the convention
S
L La Marquis de Boisberanger
G
R Francoeur, director of the opera
G
L Cazault, president of the parliament of Bourdeaux
G
L Cormatin, chief of the Chouans
B
L The Bishop of Dol
M
L Le Chevalier de Sombreuil
M
L De Tintinuiac, officer
M
L Le Comte de la Villeneuve
G
R The General Serrurier
P
L Le Comte de Linange
I
L Le Comte de Colloredo
I
L Le General Stofflet
M
L Le General Charrette
M
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The Compiler of the foregoing Journal begs leave to
acquaint the public, that he still continues it, and
that he will publish another volume in due time, if
this work should be favoured with approbation and
encouragement.