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.