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The royal family is imprisoned. August 13, 1792

The Legislative Assembly elects an Executive Council of six ministers to oversee the national election of representatives to the Convention. The Assembly also authorizes the arrest throughout France of suspected enemies of the Revolution. Royalist newspapers are prohibited. August 11, 1792

Singing Rouget de Lisle’s War Hymn of the Army of the Rhine or La Marseillaise, a battalion of National Guards from Marseilles arrives in Paris. Plans are made by a revolutionary committee to proceed toward the overthrow of the king. June 30, 1792

The Brunswick Manifesto (declared on 25 July) is distributed throughout Paris. The Duke of Brunswick, commanding general of the Austro–Prussian Army, in an inflammatory declaration, warns Parisians to obey Louis XVI. It threatens them with violent punishment if they do not. The Assembly is offended and orders the sections of Paris to ready themselves. The Manifesto creates both fear and anger in Paris. June 28, 1792

Louis XVI removes the Count of Narbonne, Minister of War. All of his other ministers resign. Louis forms a new government, composed mostly of Jacobins. March 10, 1792

Inflation intensifies. Food riots occur in Paris. Both continue until March. January 1792

Jews in all regions of France are granted full citizenship (those in the Midi had been granted citizenship on 28 January 1790). September 27, 1791

The Constitution of 1791 is proclaimed. September 3, 1791

The Emperor Leopold II appeals to other monarchs to join with him in demanding respect for the liberty and honor of Louis XVI. July 6, 1791

Louis XVI secretly explores a possible coalition with foreign powers to end the Revolution. October 1790

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