Its Chief Leaders: Comte de Mirabeau, 1789-1791. Danton, from the death of Mirabeau to 1793. Robespierre, from June, 1793, to July 27, 1794.

Next to these three were St. Just, Couthon, Marat, Carrier, Hebert, Santerre, Ca-mille Desmoulins, Roland and his wife, Brissot, Barnave, Seyes, Barras, Tallien, etc.

Its Great Days:

1789. June 17. The Tiers Etat constituted itself into the "National Assembly"; June 20, the day of the jeu de Paume, when the Assembly took an oath not to separate till it had given France a constitution; July 14, Storming of the Bastille: October 5, 6, the King and National Assembly transferred from Versailles to Paris. This closed the ancient regime of the court.

1791. June 20, 21. Flight and capture of the king, queen, and royal family.

1792. June 20, attack on the Tuileries by Santerre; August 10, attack on the Tuileries and downfall of the monarchy; September 2, 3,4, massacre of the state prisoners.

1793. January 21, Louis XVI guillotined: May 31, commencement of the Reign of Terror; June 2, the Girondists proscribed; October 16, Marie Antoinette guillotined; October 31, the Girondists guillotined.

1794. April 5, downfall of Danton; July 27, downfall of Robespierre.