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 1792. December–1793. January.

Revolutionary activities in Paris and over France; King shall be brought to 'trial.' Trial of the King (Tuesday December 11th–Sunday 16th). Three Votes (January 15th–17th, 1793): Sentence, Death without respite. Executed, Monday January 21st, 1793, morning about 10 o'clock. English Ambassador quits Paris; French Ambassador ordered to quit England (January 24th). War between the two countries imminent.

1793. February.

Dumouriez, in rear of the retreating Austrians, has seized the whole Austrian Netherlands, in a month or less (November 4th–2d December last); and now holds that territory. February 1st, France declares War against England and Holland; England declares in return, February 11th: Dumouriez immediately invades Holland; English, under Duke of York, go to the rescue: rather successful at first. Committee of Salut Public (instituted January 21st, day of the King's Execution) the supreme Administrative Body at Paris.

1793. March–July.

Mutual quarrel of Parties once the King was struck down: Girondins or Limited 'legal' Republicans versus Mountain or Unlimited: their strifes detailed, Book III. cc. 3, 7–9. War to Spain, March 7th. Three Epochs in the wrestle of Girondins and Mountain; first, March 10th, when the Girondins fancy they are to be 'Septembered' by the anarchic population: anarchic population does demand 'Arrestment of Twenty-two' by name, in return. Revolutionary Tribunal instituted, Danton's contrivance, that same day (March 10th). Battle of Neerwinden in Holland (March 18th); Dumouriez, quite beaten, obliged to withdraw homewards faster and faster. Second Girondin Epoch, April 1st, when they broke with Danton. General Dumouriez, a kind of Girondin in his way, goes over to the Enemy (April 3d). Famine, or scarcity in all kinds: Law of Maximum (fixing a price on commodities), May 20th. Third Girondin Epoch, 'illa suprema dies,' Convention begirt by Armed Sections under Henriot (Sunday June 2d); Girondins, the Twenty-two and some more, put 'under arrest in their own houses';—never got out again, but the reverse, as it proved.

1793. July.

Revolt of the Departments in consequence, who are of Girondin temper; their attempt at civil war. Comes to nothing; ends in 'a mutual shriek' (at Vernon in Normandy, July 15th): Charlotte Corday