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Goguelat, the queen's secretary,
597; plans the escape of the
royal family, 598; alters his
arrangements without informing
them, ib.; meets them at Va-
rennes, 601; is wounded, 603
Goujon, Jean, fanatical acts of
violence against, 31

Gourgues, the philanthropist, 67
Grégoire, Bishop, in the National
Assembly, 117, 137; his firm-
ness, 371

Grève, La, and famine, 181
Guard, Citizen, organised, the, 138
National. See National

Guard

Guards, French, in insurrection,
120; some imprisoned, are de-
livered by the populace, 126
Guiche, M. de, altercation with M.

de Foucault, 214
Guillotin, M., a deputy, 130;
entreats the Assembly to concur
in establishing a citizen guard, 136
Gunpowder and guns, search for, by
the Parisians, 140

HEBERT, an actor, his vile news-
paper, 550

Hereditary nobility, abolition of,
409

Hoche, a sergeant in the French
guards, his character, 120; at
Versailles, 277

Hollow truce, the, between the
Court and the people, 162
Hullin, a Genevese clock-maker,

heads the workmen and citizens
in the last attack on the Bastille,
153; endeavours to take the life
of De Launey, 158
Hururge, Marquis de St., heads a

riot in Paris, 237; arrested, 242
Hypocrisy, two sorts of, 425

IMPARTIAL, Club of the, their
aims, 321

Incarnation, kingly, Louis XIV.
the, 36

Inquisition, the, more merciless
than the Reign of Terror, 27, 28
Intendants, complaint of the, 40

JACOB, Jean, the last of the serfs,
293

Jacobin Assembly, at first a meet-
ing of deputies, 483

Club, its origin, 484; dis-
tinguished members, 492

women, 478

Jacobins, origin of the, 476; of
what classes composed, 478; no
poor originally among them, 479;
organise a revolutionary police,
485; their duplicity, 503; rise
of the true Jacobins, 525; they
persecute the other clubs, 552;
factions among them, 556
Jalès, Counter-revolutionary con-
federacy of, 474

Jesuits, the, directors of the Bas-
tille, 63

Jews, relief granted to, by the
National Assembly, 294
Joubert and Jourdan serve in the
French Guards, 120
Judgments, popular, 176
Judiciary power had lost the con-
fidence of the people, 177
Justice, struggles of the Church
with, 27; Louis XIV. proclaimed
God of, 37; opinion of Montes-
quieu, 50; the Almighty sub-
jected to, 52; identified with
grace, 71; its triumph, 72

KERENGAL, M. Le Guen, a Bas-
Breton, reproaches the National
Assembly for not having over-
thrown feudality, 213

Kersalaun, a member of the Par-
liament of Brittany, threatening
conduct of, 198

King. See Louis XVI.
Kingly incarnation, Louis XIV.
the, 36

Kings, confederacy of, against the
Revolution, 326, 414

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LABASTIDE, the Abbé, a counter-

revolutionist, 474

Laclos, Choderlos de, the king's
counsellor, 123

Lacoste, Marquis de, propositions
of, 222

Lafayette, present at the opening of
the States-General, 86 ; recom -
mended as general of the Parisian
army, 138; speaks at the Hôtel
de Ville, 167; made commandant
of the citizen militia, 168; pro-
poses the name National Guard,
171; rides in front of the king's
carriage in Paris, 172; applauded
by the people, 173; speaks at
the execution of Foulon, 188;
activity of, 243; equivocal posi-
tion, 244; at Versailles, 272;
saves the royal family and the
king's guard's, 279; joined by
Mirabeau, 287; becomes
royalist, 315; loses his title,
409; once more the noble, 458;
difficulties of his situation, 459;
suspected of a league with Bouillé,
473; his weakness in Paris,
486; deceived by the king, 593
Madame, her piety, 315
Lally Tolendal, speaks at the Hôtel

а

de Ville, after the taking of the
Bastille, 167, 174

Lamarck, his mission to Belgium, 320
Lamballe, Madame, her appearance

and character, 316

Lambesc, Prince de, his furious
conduct at the Tuileries, 135;
leaves France, 175; his establish-
ment at Trèves, 347
Lameth, Alexandre de, a noble,

works upon the people, 122,
222; becomes a member of the
Jacobin Club, 483; wounded in
a duel, 488; his duplicity, 502;
description of a patriotic banquet
by, 524

Lameth, Charles, faintly opposes the
reduction of the National Guards,
576

-, Theodore, organises a retro-
grade society, 559

Lameths, their distrust of the true
Jacobins, 525; their position,
529; become advisers of the
Court, 575
Lamoignon, the philanthropist, 67
Lanterne, De la, a pamphlet by
Camille Desmoulins, 179

Latude, in the Bastille, 66; Madame

Legros endeavours to save, 68;
refusal of the king, 69; he is
pardoned, 70

Launey, de, governor of the Bastille,
defends it, 148; summoned to
surrender by Thuriot, 149;
swears that he will not fire unless
attacked, 150; a letter from
Besenval to, commanding to hold
out to the last, intercepted, 154;
attempts to blow up the Bastille
prevented, 157; tries to commit
suicide, 157; protected from the
fury of the people by Hullin,
158; killed, ib.

La Varenne, the portress at Ver-
sailles, 281

Lavoisier, his valuable labours,

546; why hated by Marat, 547
Lazare, St., escape of the prisoners
from, 138

Lecointre, a linen draper, lieutenant-

colonel of the National Guard,
253; requests the oath to be
required from the body guard, 255
Legendre, a Cordelier, his honesty,
512

Legends and sufferings of the
Middle Ages, 23

Legros, Madame, endeavours to ob-

tain the release of Latude from
the Bastille, 68; her courage and
perseverance, ib. ; refusal of the
king, 69; she succeeds, 70; the
prize of virtue awarded to, by
the Academy, 70

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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-

tations and delay
of civil war, 505
Bouillé, Louis de, atte
off the royal family
Boyer, heads the School
for the attack of the
Brabant, the Revolus
work of the powerfu
the French deceived
ib.

Brest, conspiracy at, 1
Breteuil, the minister,
Academy to award
virtue to Madame L
sent for by the queen,
confidant, 233

Breton Club, the, its o

its proceedings, 484
Brissot, his attack on B
Brittany, commotions in
the clergy and nobles,
Broglie, Marshal de, com
foreign troops that en
129; inactivity of,
nacy of, 131; defends
but neglects Paris,
France, 175
Brotherhood, enthusiastle
of, 288

Burke, character of, 332
of the monks, 448
Buzot, his emphatic decla

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ÇA IRA! of 1793, its o
Čalas, judicial murder
Calonne accomplishes
tion against the n
becomes Comptroller
why hated by Marie
584
Camus, a member of

Assembly, 117; hiy
to the Orleans party
Carra, a violent journa
Castries, Duc de, his m
dered, 488
Chabry, Madeline

orator of the women
257; speaks for the

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Lenoir, dismissed from office, 69
Lettres de cachet, oppression prac-
tised by means of, 61; at the
disposal even of government
clerks, 64

Lomenil accomplishes the Revolu-
tion against the parliaments, 56
Louis XIV., born, 35; intense love
of France for, 36; regarded by
the peasantry as the God of
Justice, 37; death of, 41
Louis XV., illness of, at Metz,
anxiety of the people, joy on his
recovery, 45; named the Well-
beloved, 46; dies, 48
Louis XVI., ruinous good-nature

of, 60; applied to for the release
of Latude from the Bastille, 68;
refuses, 69; consents, 70; cir-
cumvented by the National
Assembly, 105; gives orders
for the closing of the hall, 106;
issues a declaration, 112; begs
Necker to remain, but will not
revoke his declaration, 118; goes
to the National Assembly, 165;
hesitation and indecision of the
king, 170; goes to Paris, 171;
Bailly presents the new cockade,
which the king accepts, 173;
demonstration of affection by the
people, indifference of Louis, re-
turns to the Castle, 174; brought
to Paris by the people, 249; un-
able to act in any way, 251; gives
a military fête at his theatre,
253; his indecision, 266; escape
hindered, 269; leaves Versailles
for Paris, 281; enthusiasm of
the people on his arrival, 283;
under surveillance, 314; his
speech to the Assembly, 321; his
duplicity, 531; proclaims his
captivity, 579; distrusts the
foreign Powers, 584; applies to
them, 585; plans for his escape,
ib.; his indifference to national-
ity, 588; his flight to Varennes,
598; arrested, 599; his disguise,

604;
606
Louison, Madeleine Chabry, the
orator of the women at Ver-
sailles, 257; attempts to speak
for them, kindness of the king,
obtains a written order for pro-
visions, 266

taken back to Paris,

Loustalot, editor of Les Révolutions
de Paris, 238; character, 240;
propositions of, 241; rejected at
the Hôtel de Ville, 242; death
of, 471

MACHAULT expelled the Court, 47
Magistrates, creation of 1,300,000,
by the new municipal law, 388
Maillard, Stanislas, prevents the

burning of the Hôtel de Ville,
259; leads the women to Ver.
sailles, 260; appears before the
assembly with them, 263, sup-
ported by Robespierre, 264
Malesherbes, the philanthropist, 67
Malouet proposes to invite the clergy
and nobility to take their seats
with the Third Estate, 92; at-
tempts to get possession of public
charities, 211
Malseigne, inspector of accounts—
his conduct at Nancy, 467
Man, Declaration of the rights of,
205

Marat, a Cordelier, proposes a

brotherhood of spies and in-
formers, 513; his irritability,
514; his appearance at the tri-
bune, 517; unwilling to impose
the Constitutional Oath on the
clerical deputies, 532; his his-
tory, 536; his mode of life, 545;
his hatred of Lavoisier, 547; ac-
cused in the assembly, 548; his
triumph, 549

Marceau serves in the French
guards, 120

Marie Antoinette, her views as to
the meeting of the States-General,
74; present at the opening, 87;

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