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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suspended, and that he be tried again, his sentence
being too mild. The terrorists rise at Toulon, as at Paris, and are subdued with much difficulty and bloodshed. 25. The Chouans, seeing themselves betrayed and deceived by a phantom of a treaty which had been held out to them as secure and permanent, again take up arms. 28. Rhull blows his brains out. A petition is presented to the convention demanding a separation of the supreme powers, as the only means of guarding against tyranny. The Spaniards are again defeated by Kellerman. A camp of 3000 men, chiefly cavalry, formed at the Tuilleries. A proclamation of the convention to French seamen concludes thus, "War, eternal war, against the "English." Lanjuinais obtains a decree for freedom of religious worship. 31. Decreed, that the revolutionary tribunals, created May 13, 1793, be suppressed. Ordered, that the tribunals prosecute the authors and accomplices of the massacres of Sept. 2, 1792. The convention, afraid that Barrere's trial should take up too much time, decrees that he be transported to Africa. Among the papers of the jacobins is found an order of the old committee of public safety to pay 100,000 livres for printing the correspondence of |
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