guillotined at Avignon.
31. Jourdan appointed commander in chief of the army of
the Moselle.
Barrere exclaims against atheism and irreligious
principles.
_April_ 5. Danton, Camille des Moulins, Fabre d'Eglantine, De
l'Aulnay, Chabot, La Croix, Philippeau, Bazire, and
Julien, all voters for the King's death, delivered
to the revolutionary tribunal, and guillotined.
Danton, when asked his name and quality, replied,
"a being now that in a few hours will be a
non-entity."
Camille des Moulins, being required to tell his
age, replied, "the same as the sans-culottes Jesus,
"34 years."
Westerman, who stiled (sic) himself the conqueror
of royalists, the Abbé d'Espagnac, and many others,
are guillotined.
7. Formal entry of the Emperor into Brussels.
Decreed, that the executive council be suppressed,
as incompatible with republican government.
Chambon states the expence, extraordinary and
revolutionary, 1,600,000,000 livres.
A deputation at the bar of the assembly demands,
that death be the order of the day.
The prisoners in Paris amount to 6763.
Dumas, a deputy, pretends to point out a method of
knowing a counter-revolutionist by his physiognomy.
St. Lucia taken by the English.
9. Gobet, intruding bishop of Paris, guillotined.