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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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