Historical Epochs of the French Revolution eBook

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

Historical Epochs of the French Revolution eBook

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