Sablons near Paris.
Decreed, that a new grammar be published, to give
to the language of liberty a character that is
suitable to it.
8. Jourdan, called Coupe-tête, general of the army at
Avignon, guillotined.
The son and daughter of Louis XVI. employed to make
shoes and shirts for the nation.
10. General Clairfait is obliged to retreat.
The French take Port-Vendre, Collieure, and St.
Elme.
13. A festival to the Eternal. Robespierre acts the
part of Pontiff. The ceremony is designed to
satisfy the people, by putting an end to atheism.
The members of the convention assume the
distinction of a plume of feathers in the hat, and
a three-coloured scarf.
The French army in Maritime Flanders amounts to
170,000 men.
The inviolability of the members of the convention
is renewed.
A large convoy from America with corn arrives in
France.
16. The French lose 7,000 men in an action near
Charleroy.
Ypres surrenders to the French--this conquest opens
all Brabant.
The numerous forces opposed to the allies oblige
them to retreat.
20. One milliard two hundred and five millions of