B THE RISE AND FALL LOUIS PHILIPPE, EX-KING OF THE FRENCH; GIVING A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT, IN 1789. BY BEN: PERLEY POORE, LATE HISTORICAL AGENT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS TO FRANCE, ILLUSTRATED WITH HISTORICAL ENGRAVINGS, PORTRAITS, AND FAC-SIMILES. BOSTON: WILLIAM D. TICKNOR & COMPANY. MDCCCXLVIII. 1848 in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. BOSTON: THURSTON, TORRY, AND COMPANY, 636-18 39 TABLE OF CONTENTS: INCLUDING, (IN ITALICS,) OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS NOT MENTIONED IN THIS WORK; THE WHOLE FORMING Opening of the States General at Versailles. Establishment of the National Assembly. First conflict between the populace and the troops Declaration of the Rights of Man in Society. Institution of the Jacobin Club. Suppression of Nobility. Louis Philippe's anti-royalism First National Federation. July 17, Louis Philippe saves a man from drowning Louis XVI. swears to maintain the Constitution. Declaration of war against Austria First hostilities and reverses in Belgium Louis Philippe brevetted brigadier-general Opening of the National Convention-Abolition of Royalty. Prediction of Danton to Louis Philippe Debates in the National Convention Institution of the Revolutionary tribunal. Imprisonment of the Duke of Orleans Louis Philippe at the Monastery of St. Gothard Louis Philippe appointed Professor of Mathematics 63 Marie Antoinette condemned and executed. Execution of the Duke of Orleans Organization of the Revolutionary Government. Festival of the Supreme Being. 54 56 Death of the Dauphin, son of Louis XVI. Louis Philippe at the North Cape First meeting of the Councils of Ancients and of Five Hundred. Formation of the Directory. Aug. 24, Nov. 1, "18, 1796, May 10, Battle of Lodi. Louis Philippe embarks at Hamburg for America Victory of Arcole. American tour of Louis Philippe and his brothers The Princes of Orleans return to Philadelphia for Violent proceedings of the 18th of Fructidor. The French enter Rome - the French Republic The Princes of Orleans arrive at New Orleans Louis Philippe's voyage to Cuba. |