the Palais Royal, and guillotined in 24 hours.
Disgrace of Generals Houchard, Schomberg, and
Landremont, who are replaced by Jourdan, Delmas,
and Moreau.
Thuriot complains to the convention, that Jourdan
is appointed to a command, and enjoys public
confidence; a man of blood, fire, and pillage,
whose name posterity will not read without horror.
The national agent, Hebert, reduces the prisoners
in the temple to the strictest regimen; the Queen
is served on pewter.
8. The allies gain considerable advantages over the
French at Toulon.
Cambon proposes to discredit specie in order to
raise the value of assignats.
Billaud Varennes proposes the immediate trial of
the Queen.
Arrest of all the members of the constituent
assembly, who protested against the constitution of
1791.
Republican women appear at the bar of the
convention, declaring that they, as well as men,
are conscious of their rights, and know how to
resist oppression.
8. Lyons, after some days of siege, is forced to
submit. Barrere moves, that the city be destroyed,
and that a column be erected on the spot, with
these words engraven on it, "Lyons waged war
against liberty; Lyons is no more."
13. The allies make themselves masters of the Strong