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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redoubts; 800 pieces of cannon, 70,000 muskets,
1,900,000 pounds of powder, and 90 stands of colours, taken by the republic. Victory of Admiral Hotham in the Mediterranean. Commotions in Paris for want of provisions. Eleven persons massacred at Toulon. Insurrection at Bourdeaux. The convention has many debates about Barrere and his associates. The Dutch are required to give up to the French republic all the coined money in their possession. Rouzet tells the convention it is time that France should resume her rank among civilized nations. 5. A committee is appointed to prepare a constitution (the third in five years). Boursault reports that the war in La Vendée is extinguished, but that another had broken out, called that of the Chouans. Le Sage denounces the wind which blew down the flag from the convention-hall. Decreed, that the 71 deputies proscribed by Robespierre resume their places. 14. The treaty of peace with the Vendéans read in the convention, except the secret articles. Boissy d'Anglas harangues upon the atrocities in France, which he attributes to royalists. 17. A committee is appointed to treat with foreign powers. Carletti is received as ambassador from the Grand Duke of Tuscany. |
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