lare they have only a quarter of a
pound of bread each a day.
Bailly, first mayor of Paris, guillotined.
General Beaulieu defeats the French, and forces
them to retreat to Philipville.
Ordered, that farmers of the national domains pay
their rents in kind.
Some persons are ordered to take away by night the
shrine of St. Genevieve, the patroness of Paris,
and whom the Parisians always respected peculiarly;
it is carried to the Mint.
7. Gabet and his constitutional clergy renounce in the
convention the sacerdotal character.
Madame Roland is condemned to death and executed
the same day, with five municipal officers of
Pont-de-Ce.
11. Festival of Reason, in the cathedral of Paris.
A woman is appointed to receive the homage there
which is denied to the Deity.
12. The royalists of La Vendee continue their
successes.
The Piedmontese still unsuccessful, losing their
camp and stores at La Magdeleine.
The national vengeance is at length glutted with
the blood of the inhabitants of Lyons; between 2
and 3000 persons have been massacred by tying them
together, and firing upon them with case-shot; and
the sabre finished those whose wounds were not
mortal.
Fort-Louis surrenders to the allies. 200 persons
are guillotined at Strasbourg for hesitating to pay
their proportion of a sum ordered to be raised in
that city within 24 hours.
Collot d'Herbois and Foucher, commissioners at
Lyons, write, that the work of destruction goes on
too slow. Mines and fires are necessary to forward
the demolition of so great a city.
The allies make a sally from Toulon, kill 2000
French, destroy the works, and take eleven pieces
of cannon.
Manuel and Cassy, members of the convention, and
Generals Houchard and Brunet, are guillotined.