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the Convention passes to the order of the
day--The Mountain, victorious in this struggle, demand the trial of
Louis XVI.--Opinions of parties on this subject--The Convention
decides that Louis XVI. shall be tried, and by itself--Louis XVI. at the
Temple; his replies before the Convention; his defence; his
condemnation; courage and serenity of his last moments--What he was,
and what he was not, as a king.
CHAPTER VII
FROM THE 21ST OF JANUARY, 1793, TO THE 2ND OF JUNE
Political and military situation of France--England, Holland, Spain,
Naples, and all the circles of the empire fall in with the coalition--
Dumouriez, after having conquered Belgium, attempts an expedition
into Holland--He wishes to re-establish constitutional
monarchy--Reverses of our armies--Struggle between the Gironde and
the Mountain--Conspiracy of the 10th of March--Insurrection of La
Vendée; its progress--Defection of Dumouriez--The Gironde accused

of being his accomplices--New conspiracies against
them--Establishment of the Commission of Twelve to frustrate the
conspirators--Insurrections of the 27th and 31st of May against the
Commission of Twelve; its suppression--Insurrection of the 2nd of
June against the two-and-twenty leading Girondists; their arrest--Total
defeat of that party.
CHAPTER VIII
FROM THE 2ND OF JUNE, 1793, TO APRIL, 1794
Insurrection of the departments against the 31st of May--Protracted
reverses on the frontiers--Progress of the Vendéans--The Montagnards
decree the constitution of 1793, and immediately suspend it to maintain
and strengthen the revolutionary government--Levée en masse; law
against suspected persons--Victories of the Montagnards in the interior,
and on the frontiers--Death of the queen, of the twenty-two Girondists,
etc.-- Committee of public safety; its power; its members--Republican
calendar-- The conquerors of the 31st of May separate--The
ultra-revolutionary faction of the commune, or the Hébertists, abolish
the catholic religion, and establish the worship of Reason; its struggle
with the committee of public safety; its defeat--The moderate faction of
the Montagnards, or the Dantonists, wish to destroy the revolutionary
dictatorship, and to establish the legal government; their fall--The
committee of public safety remains alone, and triumphant.
CHAPTER IX
FROM THE DEATH OF DANTON, APRIL, 1794, TO THE 9TH
THERMIDOR (27TH JULY, 1794)
Increase of terror; its cause--System of the democrats; Saint-Just--
Robespierre's power--Festival of the Supreme Being--Couthon presents
the law of the 22nd Prairial, which reorganizes the revolutionary
tribunal; disturbances; debates; final obedience of the convention--The
active members of the committee have a division--Robespierre,
Saint-Just, and Couthon on one side; Billaud-Varennes,

Collot-d'Herbois, Barrère, and the members of the committee of
general safety on the other--Conduct of Robespierre--He absents
himself from the committee, and rests on the Jacobins and the
commune--On the 8th of Thermidor he demands the renewal of the
committees; the motion is rejected--Sitting of the 9th Thermidor;
Saint-Just denounces the committees; is interrupted by Tallien; Billaud-
Varennes violently attacks Robespierre; general indignation of the
convention against the triumvirate; they are arrested--The commune
rises and liberates the prisoners--Peril and courage of the convention; it
outlaws the insurgents--The sections declare for the convention--Defeat
and execution of Robespierre.
CHAPTER X
FROM THE 9TH THERMIDOR TO THE 1ST PRAIRIAL, YEAR III.
(20TH MAY, 1795). EPOCH OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The convention, after the fall of Robespierre; party of the committees;
Thermidorian party; their constitution and object--Decay of the
democratic party of the committees--Impeachment of Lebon and
Carrier--State of Paris --The Jacobins and the Faubourgs declare for the
old committees; the jeunesse dorée, and the sections for the
Thermidorians--Impeachment of Billaud-Varennes, Collot-d'Herbois,
Barrère, and Vadier--Movement of Germinal--Transportation of the
accused, and of a few of the Mountain, their partisans--Insurrection of
the 1st Prairial--Defeat of the democratic party; disarming of the
Faubourgs--The lower class is excluded from the government, deprived
of the constitution of '93, and loses its material power.
CHAPTER XI
FROM THE 1ST PRAIRIAL (20TH OF MAY, 1795) TO THE 4TH
BRUMAIRE (26TH OF OCTOBER), YEAR IV., THE CLOSE OF
THE CONVENTION
Campaign of 1793 and 1794--Disposition of the armies on hearing the

news of the 9th Thermidor--Conquest of Holland; position on the
Rhine--Peace of Basel with Prussia--Peace with Spain--Descent upon
Quiberon--The reaction ceases to be conventional, and becomes
royalist--Massacre of the revolutionists, in the south--Directorial
constitution of the year III.-- Decrees of Fructidor, which require the
re-election of two-thirds of the convention--Irritation of the sectionary
royalist party--It becomes insurgent--The 13th of
Vendémiaire--Appointment of the councils and of the directory--Close
of the convention; its duration and character.
THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY
CHAPTER XII
FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THE DIRECTORY, ON THE
27TH OCTOBER, 1795, TO THE COUP-D'ÉTAT OF THE 18TH
FRUCTIDOR, YEAR V. (3RD AUGUST, 1797)
Review of the revolution--Its second character of reorganization;
transition from public to private life--The five directors; their labours
for the interior--Pacification of La Vendée--Conspiracy of Babeuf; final
defeat of the democratic party--Plan of campaign against Austria;
conquest of Italy by general Bonaparte; treaty of Campo-Formio; the
French republic is acknowledged, with its acquisitions, and