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army arrest assembly assignat attack attempted August Austrian Barère Barras began Billaud Bonaparte Bourbon Calonne century Chénier Church clergy Collot command Committee of Public constitution Convention Court Danton declared decree defeated deputies Desmoulins Directoire duc d'Orléans Dumouriez elections event Fayette feudal Feuillants force France French frontier Fructidor Gironde Girondins Government guillotine Hanriot Hébert insurrection Jacobin Club Joseph Chénier Jourdan July June King King's l'année républicaine later leaders liberty Louis XVI Marat March Marie Antoinette massacres ment middle class Mirabeau mois de l'année monarchy months national guards Necker nobles October opinion palace Paris Parisian party pendant ce mois Pichegru political popular priests prison province Public Safety Queen reached Paris régime regiment Republic republican Revolution Revolutionary Tribunal Robespierre royal royalist Sans-culottism sent Sieyès situation soldiers States-General stood struggle success terror Thermidor Third Estate tion took troops Tuileries Vergniaud Versailles voted