Chapter V: From the 1st of October, 1791, to the 21st of September, 1792

Early relations between the legislative assembly and the king--State of parties: the Feuillants rely on the middle classes, the Girondists on the people--Emigration and the dissentient clergy; decree against them; the king's veto--Declarations of war--Girondist ministry; Dumouriez, Roland-- Declaration of war against the king of Hungary and Bohemia--Disasters of our armies; decree for a camp of reserve for twenty thousand men at Paris; decree of banishment against the nonjuring priests; veto of the king; fall of the Girondist ministry--Petition of insurgents of the 20th of June to secure the passing of the decrees and the recall of the ministers--Last efforts of the constitutional party--Manifesto of the duke of Brunswick-- Events of the 10th of August--Military insurrection of Lafayette against the authors of the events of the 10th of August; it fails--Division of the assembly and the new commune; Danton--Invasion of the Prussians-- Massacres of the 2nd of September--Campaign of the Argonne--Causes of the events under the legislative assembly.

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION

CHAPTER VI

FROM THE 20TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1792, TO THE 21ST OF JANUARY, 1793

First measures of the Convention--Its composition--Rivalry of the Gironde and of the Mountain--Strength and views of the two parties--Robespierre: the Girondists accuse him of aspiring to the dictatorship--Marat--Fresh accusation of Robespierre by Louvet; Robespierre's defence; the Convention passes to the order of the day--The Mountain, victorious in this struggle, demand the trial of Louis XVI.--Opinions of parties on this subject--The Convention decides that Louis XVI. shall be tried, and by itself--Louis XVI. at the Temple; his replies before the Convention; his defence; his condemnation; courage and serenity of his last moments--What he was, and what he was not, as a king.

CHAPTER VII

FROM THE 21ST OF JANUARY, 1793, TO THE 2ND OF JUNE

Political and military situation of France--England, Holland, Spain, Naples, and all the circles of the empire fall in with the coalition-- Dumouriez, after having conquered Belgium, attempts an expedition into Holland--He wishes to re-establish constitutional monarchy--Reverses of our armies--Struggle between the Gironde and the Mountain--Conspiracy of the 10th of March--Insurrection of La Vendée; its progress--Defection of Dumouriez--The Gironde accused of being his accomplices--New conspiracies against them--Establishment of the Commission of Twelve to frustrate the conspirators--Insurrections of the 27th and 31st of May against the Commission of Twelve; its suppression--Insurrection of the 2nd of June against the two-and-twenty leading Girondists; their arrest--Total defeat of that party.