7. The King is obliged to recall Necker.
27. The liberty of the press is established.
_Sept_. 15. The person of the King is decreed to be inviolable;
and the crown of France hereditary and indivisible.
29. Decreed, that it be recommended that all church
plate be brought to the mint.
_Oct_. 1. The King is forced to accept and give the sanction
of his approbation to the famous "Rights of Man."
5. The Marquis de la Fayette at the head of 30,000
Parisians marches to Versailles.
6. After murdering the King's guards under the windows
of the Palace, they forcibly conduct both him and
the Queen to Paris amidst the insults of the
populace, and with great danger of their lives.
10. Tayllerang-Perigord, bishop of Autun, proposes that
the nation should seize the property of the clergy.
12. Decreed, that the National Assembly be removed from
Versailles to Paris.
15. The Duke of Orleans obtains leave to go to England.
19. The first sitting of the National Constituent
Assembly at Paris.
21. The people of Paris hang a baker.
The Jacobin Club commenced at this time; first
known by the name of the "Club de la Propagande."
The name of Jacobins was derived from the house
where the club met, and which had belonged to the
religious order of Jacobins.
_Nov_. 22. The commune of Paris makes a patriotic gift of its
silver buckles.
A general patriotic contribution is first