ootnote: Eight ounces
each.] of silver, together with the sword of Prince
Eugene, five feet long.
Manifesto of the Germanic body to justify the war
with France.
The Prince of Talmond and fourteen priests
guillotined.
One of the two brothers, of La Vendee, from whom
the Chouans took their name, is killed by the
republicans.
A bloody quarrel between the republican and
revolutionary soldiers of the French army.
The Vendeans obtain advantages at Cholet.
The Duke and Duchess of Luynes, and Mons de
Montmorency, an ex-constituent, imprisoned.
A work is published under the sanction of the
convention, proving that the national domains, that
is, the estates of the king (sic), the nobles, the
clergy, and the emigrants, are worth twenty
milliards of livres.
Deputies from the county of Mot Belliard demand its
union with France.
The old name of Marseilles is restored; it had been
forfeited by a decree, and was called "Sans-nom."
18. The Abbe Maury is promoted to the dignity of
cardinal.
Troops sent from Paris to La Vendee receive orders
to travel fourteen leagues a day.
20. Thomas Payne claims protection of the club of
Cordeliers, who return for answer the vote he gave
on the King's trial.
Mons. du Chaffault, lieut.-general of marines, an
officer of great services and high estimation, is
massacred in Poitou at the age of eighty-five
years.
The convention, on the motion of Barrere, decree a
political lent, in order to leave the more animal
food for the sick and aged.
A petition from Burgundy demands the death of young
Capet.
Death of Cardinal de Lomenie du Brienne, one of the
earliest promoters of the revolution.
St. Just makes a motion, the object of which is, to
excite the pe
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