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,
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.
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
Corday, Charlotte, her education,
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,
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;
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,
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
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