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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departments of forty square leagues, between the
Loire and the sea, from Painboeuf to Saumur. The sister of Mirabeau is reduced to solicit alms of the convention. _March_. Several sections of Paris complain to the convention of a scarcity of provisions. Decreed, that all the property of priests, either banished or imprisoned, be confiscated for the use of the state. Danton makes a flaming republican speech to the convention. All horses of the plough put in requisition. The number of prisoners in Paris amount to 6100. 9. The minister of justice proposes to institute a committee of insurrection, to overturn all the monarchies of Europe. The sale of the property of emigrants amounted in the year 1793 only to twenty millions of livres, not half the real value of the estates of one emigrant alone, the Duke de Montmorency. The number of victims destroyed by the guillotine or grape-shot at Lyons, to this date, amounted to somewhat more than five thousand. Populus, an ex-constituent, guillotined at Lyons. The clubs of the jacobins and cordeliers form an alliance. At Nevers seventy-four priests, who refuse to take the oath, are guillotined. At Dijon fourteen nobles suffer the same fate, because they used the titles of Count and Baron. |
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