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CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

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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