Historical Epochs of the French Revolution | Page 9

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. 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 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.