Palais-Royal.
7. Decree permitting priests, who have not conformed,
to officiate in private.
Mons. de Massei massacred at Tulle.
Decree upon the people of colour.
19. Massacre in the Vivarais.
26. Decreed, that the Louvre and the Tuilleries united
shall be the habitation of the King, and that all
monuments of science and art shall be collected and
kept there.
31. Decreed, that the punishment of death shall be
inflicted without torture. From thence came the
use of the guillotine;-an instrument of death so
called from its author, a member of the national
assembly.
_June_. Letter of the Abbe Raynal to the assembly.
Persecutions against non-conforming priests. Their
tithes given to the proprietors of the estates.
5. The King deprived by decree of the power of
granting pardons.
7. A law against regicides.
Conforming priests are everywhere put in possession
of the benefices of those who would not conform.
A general sale of ecclesiastical property.
18. Decreed, that all military men take an oath of
fidelity to the nation.
Insurrection at Bastia.
21. The King and royal family make their escape
22. from Paris; they had nearly reached the frontiers,
when they were stopped at Varennes,
25. and brought back ignominiously to Paris.
Count Dampierre is massacred under the King's eyes.
The Marquis de Bouille writes a menacing letter to
the assembly on the subject of the King.
An order is intimated to the King to disband his
body guards. All the royal functions are
suspended. The King is kept a close prisoner.
Monsieur, the King's brother, escapes to Coblentz.
_July_ 9. M. de Cazeles resigns his place as a deputy.
10. The national guards ordered to the frontiers.
11. The body of Voltaire transferred to the Pantheon.
14. Grand celebration of the anniversary o