21 August – Royalist Louis Collenot d'Angremont becomes the first person executed by
guillotine for political reasons, in the
Place du Carrousel in Paris.
11 September – Six men steal some of the former
French Crown Jewels from a warehouse, where the revolutionary government has stored them.
14 September – Radical antimonarchist
Thomas Paine flees from England to France, after being indicted for treason. He is
tried in absentia during December and
outlawed.[4]
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