7. Grand review of the national guards in the Elysian
fields.
The scarcity of specie induces the necessity of
issuing paper money called assignats.
8. Decreed, that the colonies form a part of the
French empire.
11. Insurrection at Meaux.
12. The red-book (book of court-accounts) made
publick.(sic)
14. Insurrection at the national theatre.
18. Sale of the property of the church decreed, by
which the government is enabled to abolish the duty
on salt.
_April_. The Prince of Conti takes the civic oath in the
municipality of Paris.
11. The Abbé‚ Maury and Viscount Mirabeau attacked
by the populace on coming out of the assembly.
The assembly refuses to acknowledge the Roman
Catholick (sic) religion as the religion of the
state; and this resolution is followed by
forbidding all particularity of dress or form in
ecclesiastics.
22. General Paoli, at the head of a deputation from
Corsica, presents himself to the national assembly.
24. Insurrection at Marseilles.
_May_. Report and decree upon the disturbances at Mount
Auban.
Monastic vows prohibited in future.
17. Orders of knighthood and military decorations
abolished.