Historical Epochs of the French Revolution Part 4

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 of the decree for the transportation of priests, which the King still refuses to sanction.

14. Ma.s.sacre 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, ma.s.sacred the 3d of March in an insurrection.

6. Ma.s.sacre 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 n.o.bility 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 pet.i.tion 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 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.

Distinguis.h.i.+ng 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 pet.i.tion against the King signed at the Elysian fields.

14. Anniversary of the federations observed with great ceremony.

19. Ma.s.sacre 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 const.i.tutional priests sign a recantation of their oaths, and not enough are found to fill the vacant cures.

Ma.s.sacres at Alais, Bourdeaux, Arles, and in other places.

28. Decree, obliging people to mount guard under pain of imprisonment.

Three hundred millions of a.s.signats issued.

M. d'Espemenil, an ex-const.i.tuent, is knocked down and poignarded at the Tuilleries, and with difficulty saves his life.

30. The Ma.r.s.eillois arrive at Paris; ravages and cruelties committed by them.

c.o.c.kades of ribbands proscribed.

Du Hamel ma.s.sacred 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. Ma.s.sacre 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.

Ma.s.sacre of the Swiss, and of a great number of the King's followers. Louis XVI. and his family fly for safety to the a.s.sembly.

Horrible riots and outrages in Paris.

11. Continuation of frightful outrages and murders.

All foreign amba.s.sadors 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 pa.s.sports, 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 munic.i.p.alities, to induce them to agree in finding 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 a.s.sa.s.sins publicly demand their wages. Every house is a scene of dismay. Ma.s.sacres 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-const.i.tuent and president of the department of Paris, is torn to pieces by the populace.

10. Ma.s.sacre 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 const.i.tution.

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 a.s.sembly, the heads of his father and mother, whom his patriotism, as he said, had just sacrificed.