ople to murder and vengeance, for 1200
years of crimes which had been committed against
them.
Motion by Danton for an agrarian law.
26. Report upon La Vendee. It consists of sixteen
departments of forty square leagues, between the
Loire and the sea, from Painboeuf to Saumur.
The sister of Mirabeau is reduced to solicit alms
of the convention.
_March_. Several sections of Paris complain to the
convention of a scarcity of provisions.
Decreed, that all the property of priests, either
banished or imprisoned, be confiscated for the use
of the state.
Danton makes a flaming republican speech to the
convention.
All horses of the plough put in requisition.
The number of prisoners in Paris amount to 6100.
9. The minister of justice proposes to institute a
committee of insurrection, to overturn all the
monarchies of Europe.
The sale of the property of emigrants amounted in
the year 1793 only to twenty millions of livres,
not half the real value of the estates of one
emigrant alone, the Duke de Montmorency.
The number of victims destroyed by the guillotine
or grape-shot at Lyons, to this date, amounted to
somewhat more than five thousand.
Populus, an ex-constituent, guillotined at Lyons.
The clubs of the jacobins and cordeliers form an
alliance.
At Nevers seventy-four priests, who refuse to take
the oath, are guillotined. At Dijon fourteen
nobles suffer the same fate, because they used the
titles of Count and Baron.
The merchants of Bourdeaux are all arrested on the
same day, and condemned to the guillotine; but are
permitted to redeem their lives by paying one
hundred millions of livres, to which they are
forced to submit.
14. Robespierre invents a conspiracy, or pretended
treason, in order to secure his authority.