ABBAYE, the people deliver the

French guards from the, 127
Aiguillon, Duke d', offers exemp-

tion from the Feudal Right, 213
Aix, Archbishop of, condemns feu-
dality in the National Assembly,
216; his offer of a loan, 349
Americans partial to English ideas,
459

Ami du Peuple, a newspaper con-
ducted by Marat, 239
Anarchy, Popular and Regal Ty-
ranny, employed indifferently by
Rome, 29

Ancient Monarchy, the; its cha-
racter, 35

Angers, heroic example of the
women of, 71, 395
Anglas, M. Boissy d', 97
Annales Patriotiques, a newspaper,

239

Arcy, Gouy d', wishes the inter-
cepted letters to the Count
d'Artois to be opened, 209
Argenson, M. d', on the sufferings
of the times, 41; dismissed from
Court, 47

Army, condition of the, 336; con-
duct of the officers, 338; disputes
with their men, 461
Artist, the, defined as a man-
woman, 181

Artois, sufferings of, from clerical
and feudal tyranny, 496
Artois, Count d', sends an insolent
message to the National Assem-
bly, 110; leaves France, 175;
letter of the Earl of Dorset to,
196

Assembly, the Jacobin, at first a
meeting of deputies, 483
Assembly, National. See National
Assembly.

August 4, 1789, memorable pro-
ceedings of the night of, 213
Aumont, Duke d', offered the com-
mand of the Parisian army-re-
fuses, 138

Austria, why distrusted by Louis
XVI., 584; her interest in his
escape, 586; the Austrian Am-
bassador-his unwise counsel as
to the flight to Varennes, 591
Avignon, civil war breaks out at,
581; the papal palace at, 354
Azir, Vicq d', the queen's physi-
cian, 171

BAILLY first takes the oath at the

Jeu-de-Paume, 109; the Arch-
bishop of Paris puts a crown of
flowers on his head at the Hotel-
de-Ville, 167; proclaimed Mayor,
168; gives notice that the king is
expected in Paris, 171; applaud-
ed by the people, 173; presents
the new cockade to the king, ib. ;
speaks at the execution of Foulon,
188; forced to take the exami-
nation of Berthier, 189
Barbarous punishments-their ef-
fects on the spectators, 180
Barnave, a deputy from Dauphiné,
117; a Jacobin, 483; attacked
by Brissot, 526

Bartholomew, St., massacre of, al-
luded to, 29, 209

Bastille, the Jesuits direct the, 63;

the prison of the mind as well as
the body, 65; difficulty of taking,
143; hated by the people, 145;
general rejoicing at its capture,
146; the guns carried off, 147;
ordered to surrender by Thuriot,
149; useless deputations from
the electors, 152; last attack,
153; surrenders, 156; invaded
by the conquerors, 157; the pri-
soners released, 157; pardoned,
159

Bastilles, the provincial, of Caen

and Bordeaux taken, 185
Beauharnais, M. de, his proposition

at the National Assembly, 214
Beaumarchais, a financier, 187
Belzunce, Major, murder of, 186
Bernard, Samuel, a Jew seigneur, 373
Berthier, the intendant, inactivity

of, during the disturbances in
Paris, 134; causes guns to be
imported and cartridges to be
made, 141; his character, 183;
endeavours to escape, 184; is
captured, 186; is murdered, 189
Besenval, the commandant, puts

down the Réveillon Riot, 82;
orders the dragoons to charge
upon the Parisians, 135; letter
to De Launey, commanding him
to hold out to the last, inter-
cepted, 154; the Court attempts
to prevent his trial, 209
Bishops, violence of the, 367
Body guard, the king's fête given
to, 253; saved by Lafayette, 277
Boisguillebert, a magistrate, on the
famine, 40

Bonneville proposes that Paris
should take up arms, 119
Book, the Red. See Red Book.
Bonillé, M., endeavours to set the
soldiery and the people in opposi-
tion, 336; his plan to disorganise
the army, 465; his hostile prepa-
rations, 467; attacks the Vaudois
in Nancy, 469; his plans for the
escape of the king, 587; hesi-

Brest, conspiracy at, 195
Breteuil, the minister, permits the

Academy to award the prize of
virtue to Madame Legros, 70;
sent for by the queen, 129; her
confidant, 233

Breton Club, the, its origin, 177;

its proceedings, 484

Brissot, his attack on Barnave, 527
Brittany, commotions in, excited by

the clergy and nobles, 296
Broglie, Marshal de, commands the
foreign troops that environ Paris,
129; inactivity of, 131; obsti-
nacy of, 131; defends Versailles,
but neglects Paris, 142; leaves
France, 175

Brotherhood, enthusiastic transport
of, 288

Burke, character of, 332; his eulogy
of the monks, 443
Buzot, his emphatic declaration, 221

CA IRA! of 1793, its origin, 406
Čalas, judicial murder of, 356
Calonne accomplishes the Revolu-
tion against the notables, 56;
becomes Comptroller-general, 59;
why hated by Marie Antoinette,
584
Camus, a member of the National

Assembly, 117; his subserviency
to the Orleans party, 555
Carra, a violent journalist, 120
Castries, Duc de, his mansion pl12-
dered, 488

Chabry, Madeline (Louison), the
orator of the women at Versailles,
257; speaks for them, and ob-

tains a written order for pro-
visions, 266

Chamber, questions of one or two,
in the National Assembly, 234
Champ de Mars, the only remaining
monument of the French Revolu-
tion, 2. See Mars, the Field of.
Chant, the National, 406
Character, real, of the Revolution,
14

Charles I., portrait of, use made of,

by Madame Du Barry, 583
Charters, Feudal, burnt by the
peasants, 201-203
Chartres, the Bishop of, on the
famine, 41; at the National
Assembly, 215

Duke de, a member of the
Jacobin Club, acts as door-
keeper, 554

Châteauneuf, the family, keepers
of the state prisons in the Bas-
tille, 63

Châteauroux, Madame de, 41
Châtelet, M. du, colonel of the
French guards, 120; sends some
soldiers to the Abbaye who were
refractory, 127

the Duke du, proposes the
abolition of titles, 215
Chateauvieux regiment, its conduct
at Paris, 462

Chavignon, Assembly at, 386
Chevaliers du poignard, who, 589
Choiseul, entrusted with the
management of the escape of the
royal family, 591; advances to-
wards Chalons, 596; retires,
597; meets the king at Va-
rennes, 601; proposes to him
and the queen to ford the river,
604; they decline, ib.
Christianity and the Revolution, 18;
contrasted with justice, 21
Church, the, and Justice, 27;
imminent ruin of the ancient,
220; charge of having abandoned
the people, 221; agitation in the,
530. See Clergy, Priests.

609

Citizen Guard, the, organised, 138
Class privileges abandoned, 214
Clergy, the, and the people, 26;

inhumanity of, in time of distress,
44; suppression of titles, 222;
the enormous extent of their
property, 290; debates in the
Assembly, 291; their serfs, 292;
attempt to raise a civil war, 296;
annulled as a body by the Na-
tional Assembly, 300; their
protest, 353; their resistance to
the Revolution, 370

Clergy and nobles, contests of, 345
Clerks of the government offices, the
real directors of the Bastille, 64
Clermont-Tonnerre, Count, at the
Hôtel de Ville, after the taking
of the Bastille, 167

Cloots, Anacharsis, his deputation,
410; his rhapsody, 521
Club of Eighty-nine, its character,
553

Monarchical, attack of the
Jacobins on the, 553

Clubs, the, petitioned against by
the department of Paris, 576

of the Cordeliers and Jaco-
bims, 331

Coigny, M. de, his altercation with
the king, 60

Colbert, complaint of, 40
Comedians, victims of religious pre-
judices, 294

Commons, the, name of National

Assembly taken by the, 98; they
sieze on the right to levy taxes, 103
Complaints, the people invited to

prefer, to the States-General, 75
Condés, the, leave France, 175
Confederates, the, arrive in Paris, 410
Confederation fêtes, scenes at the,
394
Constitution, Friends of the, the

early name of the Jacobins, 477
Contis, the, leave France, 175
Convents, suppression of the, 342;
debate thereon, 346

Convocation of the States delayed, 78

610

Corday, Charlotte, her education,

293

a

Dante, theory of monarchy of, 35
Danton, his portrait, 523;
cruelly-faithful personification of
the Revolution, ib.

Declaration of the Rights of Man,
205

Deputation of the Assembly to the
city of Paris, 167
Deslons, M., his interview with
the king at Varennes, 603
Desmoulins, Camille, incites the
Parisians to arms, 133; speech
of, 178-179; his pamphlet De
la Lanterne, 179; censured for
his impetuosity by Robespierre,
509; his discourses with the
workmen, 513; his ridicule of
Marat, 519; of Anacharsis
Cloots, 522; of the Jacobins,
526; his varying judgments of
Mirabeau, 569
D'Estaing, Admiral, his letter to the
queen, 243; his conduct at Ver-
sailles, 268

Devotees and Politicians, remarks
on, 15

Diderot, and the Encyclopédie, 50
Disturbances following the Declara-

tion of the Rights of Man, 207
Donations, patriotic, 229
Dorset, Earl of, the English Am-

bassador, his letter to the Count
d'Artois, 196

Dragoon, ferocity of a, 189; killed
by his comrades, 190

Drouet, an ex-dragoon, follows the
king and queen to Varennes,
597

Du Barry, Madame, her history,
583

Duchesne, Madame de, protects
Madame Legros, 68
Duelling, attempts to intimidate
the Assembly by, 338; increase
of the practice, 462; reduced to
a system by the nobles, 487
Dumoulin, fanatical acts of violence
against, 31

Duport works upon the people,
122; the first club opened by, at
his house, 177; long the head of
the Jacobins, 483
Durovray, a republican, the coun-
sellor of Necker, 104
Dussaulx, endeavours

to save
Flesselles from the fury of the
people, 154

ECCLESIASTICAL ESTATES, sale of,
348

Ecclesiastical intolerance, examples
of, 580

Ecclesiastical vows, legislation on,
293

Egotism, quite contrary to the noble
principles of the French Revolu-
tion, 7
Elections of Paris, the, delayed,
78; finished, 83

Electors, choice of, by the whole
people, 73; they are troubled by
riots, 80; the elections finished,

83

Assembly of the, 118; sanc-
tion the Parisians in taking up
arms, 137; hesitate, 139; sum-
mon the Bastille to surrender, 152
Elie, an officer in the queen's regi-

ment, heads the French guards
in the last attack on the Bastille,

153; implores pardon for the chil-
dren of the Bastille, 160
Elizabeth, Madame, at the Tuile-
ries, 283

Emigration, the first, 175; flight of
the princes, ib. ; departure of the
princesses, 558; the question dis-
cussed in the Assembly, 559; pro-
posed law against, opposed by
Mirabeau, 560

England, real source of her greatness,
431; hates France, 438; her
hatred unchanged, as evidenced
by her historians, 448
English ideal, the false, 430
Englishman, the, a mere part of a
machine, 447

English people, their hateful credu-
lity, 444

Exclusion, spirit of, in the French
Revolution, 5

FAMINE in the 18th century, 38; in
France in 1789, 185
Fauchet, the Abbé, 119; endea-
vours to save the provost Fles-
selles from the people, 154; pro-
phetic speeches, 218
Favras, execution of, 324
Fencing-masters employed as hired

bullies by the officers of the army
against their men, 460

Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambrai, on
the famine, 41

Fersen, M. de, the queen's secre-

tary, 586, 591; assists her to
escape from Paris, 594

Fète, a military, given at Ver-
sailles, 253

Feudal charters burnt by the pea-
sants, 201, 203
Flesselles, the provost, inactivity
of, during the insurrection in
Paris, 134; summoned to Ver-
sailles by the king, and to the
Hôtel de Ville by the people,
goes to the Hôtel de Ville and
pacifies the people, 138; de-
ceives them about the guns, 141;

611

hardly escapes their fury, 154;
shot, 159

Foulon, 182; said to have uttered
the terrible threat, "France must
be mowed," (Il faut faucher la
France), 183; pretended to be
dead, 184; taken to the Hôtel
de Ville to be shot, 186; hanged,
188

Fleury, question of improvement
under, 41

Florentin, St., gives away 50,000
lettres de cachet, 63

Flue, M. de, captain of the Swiss
Guards at the Bastille, resolves
to hold out, 150

Foucault, M. de, advocates the
abolition of class privileges,

214

France, in arms, 190; danger of,
208; spontaneous organisation of,
383

Fraternal enthusiasm, 287
Fraternities, associations of, its ori-
gin, 307

Fraternity in the French Revolu-
tion, 6; association of, 307; every
obstacle removed by, 391
Freethinkers, escape from popular
fury, 32; persecution of, by the
Church, ib.; exalt and strengthen
the power of the crown, 34
French Guards revolt, 120; some
imprisoned, are delivered by the
populace, 126

Friend of the People, the title of
Marat's newspaper, 514
Froment, an agent of the priests,
359; his proceedings, 374

GALLEY SLAVES, registers of the, 355
Geneviève, St., the ladies of the

Place Maubert put the revolu-
tion of Paris under the protection
of, 173

Genlis, Madame de, her character,
123
Glezen, the Breton, member of
the National Assembly, 117