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
and famous lines of Weissembourg. Lauterbourg
surrenders to them next day.
All monuments of former Kings who were buried at
St. Denis, are destroyed by order of the
convention.
15. The Queen appears at the bar of the revolutionary
tribunal; Fouquier, the public accuser, reads the
list of injuries and grievances with which she is
charged, and immediately obtains a sentence of
death against her; she hears it with downcast eyes,
and without uttering a word.
16. Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France, is
conveyed in a cart to the place of execution, her
hands tied behind her back, and with her back to
the horse's tail. She mounted the scaffold
quickly, amidst acclamations of the people, which
excited only a smile of pity in her. She looked
earnestly at the Tuilleries, and seemed to dwell
upon the place where her children were; before she
was fastened to the guillotine, she threw her eyes
up to heaven, and Soon after her head was severed
from her body.
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