Historical Epochs of the French Revolution - With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France - And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Henry Goudemetz
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the republic. Guadaloupe is retaken by the French. Cambon reports that assignats in circulation amount to 6,400,000,000 of livres, and the expence of the present year to 2,200,000,000 livres. Addresses of congratulation from all parts on the overthrow of the jacobins. 17. The Spaniards defeated by the French. Republican General Dugommier killed. 20. The Spaniards again defeated--three generals taken. St. Fernard, Figueras, and Aspaetta, surrender. 30. Grave surrenders to the French. Carrier and his bloody accomplices decreed to be in a state of accusation. Decreed, that all emigrants be for ever banished from the republic, their property confiscated, and their return punished with death. _Dec_. 1. The French make several unsuccessful attempts on the side of Mayence, but are repulsed with loss. 7. Ten members of the revolutionary committee of Paris, convicted of peculation (sic) and abuse of power, are condemned to twenty years imprisonment, and to stand six hours in the pillory at the Place de Grêve, the place of common executions. The municipality of Nantes forbid all persons to drink the water of the river Loire, on account of the infection from the dead bodies which were victims of Carrier's cruelty. 8. The seventy-one members who had been proscribed by |
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