evwalt
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November, 1793 Dateline: Paris, November 5, 1793 The city is still in uproar over the recovery of the Barnave letters. Growing meetings of the supporters of the Paris Commune cry out for the traitors to the Revolution to be named and arrested. A special meeting of the Legislative Assembly has been called for tomorrow to deal with the matter. At the royal residence, the National Guard regiments from the royalist supporting region of Vendee have been released from service protecting the King at his Paris palace of Tuileries. While speculation has run rampart that this dismissal is related to the discovery of the Barnave letters, Minister Robespierre denied that the rotation was anything but a normal event. Several regiments of National Guard raised from among the radicals of Paris took their place outside the palace. The selection of these regiments, stated Minister Robespierre, was to give the more radical supporters of the Paris Commune assurance that the King would be watched by those loyal to the Revolution, not from any assumption of disloyalty by the King himself. In other news, the integration of the new National Guard regiments into the Bavarian Army continues. As each new regiment is officially accepted, the Bavarians disband one of their older style regiments. Such regiments were often thirty percent or more filled with non-Bavarian mercenaries. The raising of these new Bavarian National Guard regiments have caused some consternation in the Bavarian capitol in Munich. Several high ranking nobles have protested to the Bavarian King that these new regiments are infused with a great deal of radicalism and that their ranks are filled with soldiers who have more in common with their common-born French instructors than their noble Bavarian commanders. Supporters of the French within court point out that those agitating for a slower recruitment process are all supporters of the British crown. Both the French and British have for years been vying for greater influence over the Bavarian Government. **** Dateline: Paris, November 6, 1793 The Legislative Assembly was the scene of boisterous meeting today as Minister Robespierre confirmed officially the contents of the Barnave letters, stating that they were indeed treasonous letters addressed to many prominent officials in Paris. M. Robespierre refused to provide any specifics however despite demands from the other members of the Assembly, most specifically Adrian Duport, leader of the Feuillants. The argument soon grew to a fever pitch and nearly came to blows when several Jacobin supporters recalled that before his joining the Émigré Army, Antoine Pierre Barnave was a leader in the Feuillant movement. The meeting was forced to end shortly thereafter when a large crowd of citizens from the Paris Commune began to riot outside the building. In other news, it is reported that Louis XVI daughter, Princess Marie-Therese, has left Paris for a long scheduled visit to see her cousin, Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and Archduke of Austria. **** Dateline: Paris, November 14, 1793 Reports began to circulate that Adrian Duport, leader of the Feuillants in the Legislative Assembly, was among those to whom some of the Barnave letters were addressed. Within hours, a large crowd of Parisians had gathered outside the house in which he had stayed demanding his arrest. Shortly thereafter, a regiment of National Guard troops under the direction of Minister Robespierre arrived at the scene, only to discover that Dupot had escaped the crowd and fled earlier. This flight is widely seen as proof of his guilt, though many members of his faction in the Assembly argue that he fled to avoid the crowd and not because of treasonous activity. **** Dateline: Paris, November 21, 1793 Adrian Duport, leader of the Feuillants in the Legislative Assembly is dead; killed while meeting with several members of his faction in a tavern outside of Paris. According to Minister Robespierre, National Guard troops arrived at the tavern with arrest warrants for the Assemblyman. After refusing to be arrested because he claimed that the warrants had been improperly and illegally signed by Minister Robespierre alone, Duport tried to flee. At that point, he was shot and killed, along with most of the leadership of the Feuillant faction. Minister Robespierre later stated that it was obvious that many members of the Feuillant faction in the Assembly were traitors still loyal to their ex-leader, Émigré leader Antoine Pierre Barnave. He then announced the issuance of hundreds of additional warrants for prominent Feuillant members, both in and outside the Assembly.
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