Historical Epochs of the French Revolution | Page 4

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 Abbé‚ 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 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. Désilles 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 Béfort. 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. 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 (lêze-nation) shall be
conveyed to Orleans. Gobet, a member of the assembly, appointed
bishop of Paris. Insurrection and