CHAPTER XIV.-REIGN OF TERROR-FROM THE FALL OF THE GIRONDISTS
TO THE DEATH OF DANTON. JUNE 2, 1793-MARCH 31, 1794.
Character of democracy, 1.-New government, 2.-The Committee of Public
Salvation, 3.-Coalition against the Convention, 5.-Measures of the Jacobins,
ib.-New constitution, 7.-Revolutionary Committees, 8.-New era, and de-
cree against English commerce, 9.-The prisons of Paris, 11.-Trial of Cus-
tine, 12.-Treatment of the dauphin, 13.-Trial of the queen, 14.-Her execu-
tion, 16.-Death of Bailly, ib.-of Barnave and Condorcet, 18-of the Duke
of Orleans, ib.-Violation of the tombs of St Denis, 19.-Abjuration of Chris-
tianity, 21.-Atheistical decrees, 23.-Dissoluteness of manners, 24.-Con-
fiscation of the property of hospitals, ib. -Apotheosis of Marat, ib.-Measures
of the Convention, ib.-Issue of assignats, 26.-Their rapid depreciation, 27.
-Law of the maximum, ib.-Increase of disorders and gambling, 28.-Num-
ber of prisoners, 29.-Forced requisitions, 30.-Forced loans, 31.-Confusion
of the debt, 32.-Laws against forestallers and public companies, 33.-
-Violence of the people, 34.-Renewed measures of severity, ib.-Oppression
on the industrious classes, 35.-People put on reduced rations; fresh arbitrary
taxation, 36.-Burke's description of France, ib.-Principles of the Danton-
ists, 38—of the Anarchists, ib.—The Vieux Cordelier, 39.—Culminating point
of the Revolution, 40.-Danton's return to the Jacobins, 42.--Attacks of the
Dantonists on the Anarchists, 43.-Purification of the Jacobin Club, 44.-
Proscription of the Anarchists, 46.-Their death, 47.-Arrest of Danton and
his party, 52.-Their execution, 53.-Alleged conspiracy and executions, 54.
-The successive destruction of the Revolutionists, 56.
The atrocities of the Reign of Terror, 57.-Principles of Robespierre's govern-
ment, 59.-Object of the Decemvirs, 60.-Report on the state of the Republic,
61.-Closing of all clubs except the Jacobins, ib.-Character of St Just, &c.,
62.-Purifications of the Jacobin Club, 63.-Picture of the prisons, 65.—
Espionage, 67.-Robespierre's speech on the Supreme Being, 68.-Attempts
to assassinate Robespierre and Collot d'Herbois, 70.-Decree against quarter
to the British, 71.-Fête in honour of the Supreme Being, 72.-Powers con-
ferred on the Revolutionary Tribunal, 73.-Violence of the government, 76.
The Polytechnic School, 77.-Measures for relief of pauperism, ib.-Robes-
pierre on the principles of his government, 78.-Increasing issue of assignats,
79.-Increased executions, ib.-Death of the Princess of Monaco, 82-Lavoi-
sier, Roucher, &c., 83.-Execution of Malesherbes, 84-of the farmers-gene-
ral, ib.—of Madame Elizabeth, 85-of Custine's son, Luckner, Biron, Diet-
rich and Madame du Barri, 86.—Execution of the young women from Verdun
and Montmartre, 87.-Lebon at Arras, 88-Carrier at Nantes, 89.-St Just
at Strassburg, and Tallien at Bordeaux, 90.-Horror excited by the executions,
91.-Affair of Catherine Theot, 92.-Measures of the Convention, 95.-Mea-
aures of the Committee of Public Salvation, 96.-Robespierre's last speech,
97.-Meeting at the Jacobins, 99.-Preparations during the night, ib.-Meet-
ing of the 9th Thermidor, 100.-Robespierre is imprisoned, but liberated,
103.-Firmness of Tallien and his party, ib.-Arrest of Robespierre and all
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