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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 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 Abbé 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 from its author, a
member of the national assembly. June. Letter of the Abbé 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 Bouillé 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 Cazelés 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