Public disorder gossip at Versailles and Lyons trials
Eyewitness accounts detail rallies in Versailles with guards, the National Cockade desecration, and Perceval d Estaing’s arrest request. The Oct 12 session reviews uprisings at Lyons, orders harsh reprisals, and notes royalist plots, with testimonies about royalist meetings and plans to defend the throne.
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Flanders
Richard
Ci-Devant
Perceval
D’estarne
Regiment of Flanders
Perceval d
Versailles
Efaing
Paris
National Guard
Gardes du Corps
Co-Devant Gardes du Corps
France
Poixnaca
Riupity
Louis Capet
Scarcity Sparks Decrees in Lyseux District Corn Crisis
October 16 report notes extreme corn shortage in Lyseux with bread sharing among five to six people. Assembly orders sending measures to Representatives of the People to ensure provision, committees tasked to compel administrators to enforce the corn law. Debate over ministers issuing instructions recalls decree. concerns raised about potential despotism and monarchy restoration. Municipal notes cover price controls and disorderly women, while Corsican and military reports follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyseux
Chabot
Minsters
Louwviers
National Convention
French Chartres Keeper Questioned Over Paris Uprising
The Ordinary keeper of Chartres Jean Pierre Brisot was privately interrogated. He claimed his aim was to rally deputies from the departments to Paris walls to receive the civic embrace and promote unity of the Republic, arming Calvados La Gironde and the Southern Departments against the Mountain faction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Chartres
Jean Pierre Brisot
Calvados
la Gironde
Monuments To Be Pulled Down And Vendée Reforms Decreed
A Paris Convention note details actions in the Vendée crisis including renaming the war, arresting suspected opponents, and plans to pull down St Denis monuments. It cites measures by the Committee of General Safety, with deputy adhesions from Bourdeaux, and reports on Martinique, Campredon, and provisions for Bourdeaux amid drought and unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verdelin
Salanches
Feucigry
Dumont
Perexne
Marquis de Haugy Rodbecourt
Legislative Assembly
Popular Society of Nantes
Cancleux
Dubayet
la Vendce
Dudhayet
la Vendee
Committee of Public Safety
City of
Sables
la Vendée
St. Philibert
Department of
Bourg
Bresle
St. Denis
Committee of General Safety
Grand Lieu
Machecoul
Revolutionary Tribunal
Bourdeaux
la Crose
Martinico
Behague
Dagobert
Campredon
Spain
Prieur
Hentz
Ramone and David Report Found Objects of Value at Private House
Ramone and David announce the discovery at a private residence of 42 volumes of the Correspondence of the Mare chal De Belleife with details on marine and military matters. Furniture from Rambouillet castle includes 590,000 livres and 250 thousand weight of iron, tapestries, glasses, 800 mattresses, hospital items, museum monuments, precious metals, and 12 marks of plate sent to the mint. A departmental representative in La Manche provided nourishing bread and urged increased cultivation. David completes a painting of Marat’s last sigh and may show it at the Museum section during the inauguration of busts for Le Pelletier and Marat before presenting it to the Convention. The work may be displayed at his house for 15 days.
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Ramone
David
Marechal de Belleife
Rambouillet
Department
la Manche
Marat
le Pelletier
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Rerpry
Espremenil
Thouret
Barentixn
Berry
Champ de Mars
Rerey
Goueni-Garden
Worthy
Barvere
Chateaunenf
Lyons
Vitory
Dubois Crance
Gauthier
Gth
de Vozes
Marquis of
Viziere
Dudois Crance
Rochelle
Maubeuge
Loup
Cobourg
Guadaloupe
la Crosse
Roxifilon
Predoz
Chordieu
Bellegarde
Saumur
Chalbos
Brefuire
Chatillon
Chamé@oix
Menez
Tree of Liberty
Cédes
Mortagne
Legendre
Lacroix
Seine
England
George
J Zéeau
Gironde
Reole
Zallien
Duchatel
Brislot
Marchena
Puifay
Buxor
Liberty
Committee of Public Instruction
Second
Lacombe St Michel
Corsica
Cain
Batie
St. Florent
Tugar
Hebert
The
Moselle
Mentz
Verdun
Montmedi
Felix
Military Commission
Bourdeaug
Bourdeliers
P.S. Ad. Ambarne Dalliens
Vera
la Giraigg Bourdeaux
Repub
Alexander
Ee of
Public Safiy
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