apparently reconciled to the peo- ple, 126; procures the dismissal of Necker, 130; encourages the troops to attack Paris, 162; Breteuil, her confidant, 233; looking forward to flight and civil war, ib.; is looked to by the aristocracy to save the mo- narchy, 251; entertains the regi- ment of Flanders, 253; her danger at Versailles, 273; ap- pears before the people, 278; her want of prudence, 313; not a bigot, 317; her hypocrisy, 322; her appearance, 335; interview with Mirabeau, 336; appears on the Field of Mars, 411; fears the emigrant princes more than the Revolution, 584; her share in the ruin of the king, 591; the flight to Varennes, 593; her conduct there, 600, 602, 605 Marriages, great increase of, in 1789, 417
Mars, the Field of, labour of all classes in preparing, 407; taking of the oath to the Constitution, 412 Massacre of St. Bartholomew, the, 29
Maury, the Abbé-his ridicule of Robespierre, 499
Memmay de Quincey accused of murder, 199
Mercy, M. de, the Austrian am- bassador-his unwise solicitude for the safety of the queen causes her ruin, 591 Mericourt, Mulle. Théroigne de, gains over the regiment of Flan- ders, 268
Merlet, the framer of the law
against suspected persons, 559 Middle Ages, legends of the, 23; resignation exemplified in the, 24
Mirabeau, present at the opening
of the States-General, 86; dis- plays irritation, his speech, 100;
speech of, after the king's declaration, 116; proposes an address to the Parisians, advising them to be orderly, 128; pro- poses an address for the removal of the troops from Paris, 129; opinions of, 222; his discordant principles, 236; uneasiness of, about the Veto, 262; at the As- sembly, 271; refuses to speak, 272; joins with Lafayette, 287: reconciled to Lafayette, 315; equivocal conduct of the Court to, 327; his eloquence at the Convention, 330; his character, 333; his interview with the queen, 335; his character of the Jacobins, 483; his opinion of Robespierre, 498; his quarrels and reconciliations with the peo- ple, 527; his appeal to the Jaco- bins, 528; his opposition to the first step of terror, 551; opposes the proposed law against emigra- tion, 561; his danger, 562; at- tacked by Lameth, 564; his death and funeral, 568; varying judg. ments of him, 569; his real transgression, 570; removal of his remains from the Pantheon, 572
Misery and mourning in Paris after the taking of the Bastille, 166 Molleville, Bertrand de, a royalist, 104
Monarchy, the Ancient-its cha- racter, 35 Monsieur, Count de Provence-his share in the ruin of the king, 591; his escape from France,
Montagne, the, alluded to, 525 Montauban, counter-revolution at, 363
Montbarrey, Prince de, an old
minister, saved from the fury of the people by the Marquis de la Salle, 160 Montélimart, confederation of, 308
Montemart, M. de-his altercation
with M. de Foucault, 214 Montesquieu-his opinion on jus- tice, 50; his political romance, 431 Montfermeil, Marquis de, borrowed money to relieve his vassals, 203
Montmorency advocates the imme- diate abolition of class privileges, 215
Montmorin, his intrigue with the Lameths, 575
Montpellier, Bishop of, his speech
in the National Assembly, 216 Monuments of the Revolution, none remaining, 2
Moreau de Saint- Mèry recom- mends Lafayette as general of the Parisian army, 138 Mounier proposes to invite the
clergy and nobility to take their seats with the Third Estate, 92 Mourning and misery in Paris after the taking of the Bastille, 166
NANCY, massacre at, 469
Bishop of his speech in the National Assembly, 215 National Assembly, name taken by the Third Estate, 97; assembles at the Tennis Court on the closing of their hall by the king, 107; declines to separate, 117; applies to the king vainly, 136; the king goes to the, 165; deputation of the, 167; embarrassment of the, 190; demands the confidence of the people, 192; distrust of the people, 193; critical position of, 208; declares the secrecy of let- ters inviolable, 209; opposition of the Court to the Assembly, 209; defeat the Court, 210; speeches on the 4th of August, 213; the Assembly is required to be renewed, 235; ambiguous con- duct of, 245; proposal to dissolve the, 246; its impotency, 247;
receives warning, 261; Maillard appears with the women before the, 262; the women pass the night in the hall, 271; en- treated by the king to meet at Versailles, 279; hesitation of the, 280; refuses to quit its usual place of meeting, 281; the As- sembly is well disposed towards the king, 287; projects of the, 290; wishes to bestow pensions, 291; suspends the pronouncing of ecclesiastical vows, 293; de- cides nothing for the comedians nor for the Jews, 294; decrees that no one could be an elector unless he paid a certain amount of taxes, 298; decrees that the estates of the clergy were at the disposal of the nation, 300; par- dons the parliament of Metz, 303; power of the, 305; resist- ance of the parliaments conquered, 307; the king presents himself before the Assembly, and makes a speech in its favour, 321; enthusiasm manifested by the, 322; confides only in the muni- cipalities, 323; question about its dissolution, 329; decreed that there should be no elections till the Constitution was finished, 330; the king intimates that he is arming ships, 332; the army tries to intimidate by duelling, 338; a new explosion in a libel issued devoting it to the hatred of the people, 346; about de- crees presented for the royal sanction, 347; accused of wishing to have no kind of religion, 350; debates on religion, 352; wishes that the clergy should be in future the elect of the people, 372; Avignon sends a deputation to the, 379; address of Chavignon, 386; abolishes hereditary no- bility and titles, 409; receives the "deputies of the human race,"
410; thanks Bouillé for the mas- sacre of Nancy, 470; its weak- ness, 524; afraid of the people, 527; its decree against the clergy, 531; debates on the emigration, 559; decrees that the king shall return to Paris, 605 National cockade, insults offered to the, 254
National Guard, suspected, 472; scheme to reduce their number, 527; protest of Robespierre, ib. National sovereignty, first act of the, 79
Nations, sympathy of, with the Revolution, 403
Navy, conduct of the officers of the, 339
Necker, his character, 75; dis-
misses M. de Sartines, 69; his speech at the opening of the National Assembly, 90; persuades the king and some of the ministers that his project is the only means of salvation, 106; wishes to quit office, but is requested to remain by the king, 118; removed from office, 130; the queen's party wish to arrest him, ib.; the king writes to, engaging him to return, 171; returns, 210; makes his confession to the Assembly, 246; his flight, 487
Newspapers, royalist and revolu- tionary, their emulation in vio- lence, 551
Nicolas, a ruffian at Versailles, 277 Nismes, counter-revolution at, 305; outbreak at, 375
Bishop of, his speech in the National Assembly, 216 Noailles, Viscount de, offers exemp-
tion from feudal rights, 213 Nobles, old and new, fury of the, 198 Nobles and clergy, contests of, 345 Nuns, cruel treatment of some, 580, 581
OATH taken at the Jeu-de-Paume, 108
Oath to the Constitution, decree of the Assembly for taking it, 531; refused by the clergy who are deputies, 533
Obscurity, a main feature of the old tyrannical system, 384 Orangerie at Versailles, 250 Orateur du Peuple, a newspaper, 239 Orders, question on the separation of the, 91
Ormesson, Lefebvre, l'Abbé, guards and distributes gunpowder among the people, 140; narrowly escapes being hanged, 260
Orleans, the Regent Duke of, in- crease of the national debt under, 41; his avarice, 554
duke of, intrigues of his partisans, 122; his pretended fears, 142; his conduct, 280; goes to London, 287; renewed in- trigues, 554; he falls into dis- repute, 555; the idea of Re- public instead of a Monarchy sug- gested by his baseness, ib.
PACIFIO principles of the French Revolution, 3
Palais-Royale, agitation in the, 121 Paris, delay of the elections, 78;
the city desires to be prepared for war, 129; danger of, 132; insurrection in, 133; the people take up arms, 135; mourning and misery in, 166; fears of, 194; the city abandoned to itself, 226; no public authority, 227; difficulty of procuring provisions, 230; agitation about the question of the Veto, 237; the king brought to, by the people, 249; irritation in the city, 255; the king again at Paris, 282
Parliaments, the, annulled by the National Assembly, 300 Patriote Français, a newspaper, 238 Patriotic donations, 229 Patriotism, unity of, 390 Peace, a hollow, made, 169
Philanthropy of revenue farmers, 61 Place Maubert, the ladies of the,
put the Revolution under the pro- tection of Saint Geneviève, 173 Point du Jour, a newspaper, 238 Polignac, Count, goes into the Palais
Royal to defy the crowd, 133 Polignacs, the, leave France, 175 Politicians and devotees, 15 Pompadour, Madame de (née Pois-
son), gains an ascendancy over Louis XV., 47
Pope, the, denounces the Revolu- tion, 581
Popular judgments on the ancient monarchy, 176
Populus, M., his speech in the Na- tional Assembly, 94 Power, judiciary, the people have
no confidence in the, 177 Press, increase of the, 239; power of the, 424
Priests, power of the, 425; their triumph over the Voltairian law- yers of the Assembly, 534
the lower order of, their numbers, 507; how attached to the Revolution, ib. Princesses, the (aunts of Louis
XVI.), emigrate, 558; stopped on their journey, ib. ; allowed to proceed, 559
Principles of the Revolution emi- nently pacific, 3
Privileged classes, attempts to frighten them by calling on the people, 74
Privileges, class, given up, 215 Protestants, relief granted to, by the National Assembly, 294; con-
dition of, in the South of France, 357; plots against them, 361 ; their terror, 363 Provinces, alarm of the, 195; the privileges of, abandoned, 217 Provincial distinctions renounced by the peasants of Dauphiné, 308 Provisions, difficulty of procuring, in the summer of 1789, 2, 31 Public Charities, the Court attempts to get possession of, 211 Punishments, barbarous, their evil effects, 180
Puységur, a commander of the foreign troops in the French ser- vice, 131
QUEEN. See Marie Antoinette. RABAUD SAINT-ETIENNE proposes a conference to unite the three orders, 92; the motion carried, ib.; becomes President of the National Assembly, 295
Ramus, fanatical acts of violence against, 31
Reconciliation of the past and the
present, impotent efforts for, 219 Red Book, the, its character, 58,347 Regal tyranny and popular anarchy, employed indifferently by Rome,
Religious liberty acknowledged by the National Assembly, 224 Religious tyranny, strange league be-
tween, and the friends of liberty, 4 Republic, first idea of a, by whom originated, 555
Resignation of the Middle Ages, 24 Resistance of the Parliament to the
National Assembly, 300, 304 Réveillon riot, the electors embar- rassed by the; 80; interested parties, 82
Revenue farmers, philanthropy of; 61
Revocation of the edict of Nantes, the model of the code of terror, 559 Revolution, no monuments remain-
ing of the, except the Champ de Mars, 2; its principles eminently pacific, 3; strangely leagued with religious tyranny, 4; becomes ex- clusive, 5; fraternity one of the principles of the, 6; no egotism in the French Revolution, 7; uni- versal love, the glorious error of the, 8; character of the, 14; is the Revolution the fulfilling of Christianity? 17; desired by all to a certain limit, 56 Revolutions de Paris, Les, a news- paper, 238; the Court plot printed in it, 243
Right, feudal, offers to abandon, 212 Rights of Man, declaration of the, 520 Riom, Albert de, a naval officer,
Robespierre, Maximilian, speaks at the National Assembly, 94; wishes the intercepted letters to the Count d'Artois to be opened, 209; his origin, and appearance of, 492; an orphan, 494; lite- rary attempts, 495; criminal judge, 496; member of the States- General, 497; conspiracy to make him ridiculous, 498; his solitude and poverty, 499; quarrels with the Lameths, 500; trusted by the people, 505; gains ascendancy at the Jacobin Club, 506; pro- poses to allow the marriage of priests, 507; his prudence, 508; takes a lead in the Assembly, 527; against forcing the consti- tutional oath on the clerical de- puties, 532; his self-denying proposal, 573; succeeds the La- meths as the organ of the Jacobins, 574; attacked by Duport, 576 Robin, Jean, an aged pilot, honours paid to, 340
Rochefoucault, Cardinal de la, im- plores the king to dismiss the National Assembly, 105; in the name of the clergy relinquishes the tithes, 223
Rochefoucault, M. de la, demands an amelioration of negro slavery, 214
Rohan, the philanthropist, 67; en- deavours to obtain the pardon of Latude, 68
Romme, the mathematician, pre- sides at a patriotic banquet, 524 Rousseau, 50; commencement of his career, 51; acts by sentiment and melody, 53
Royal comedy of the States-Gene- ral and the Parliament, 37 Royal incarnation, Louis XIV. the,
36; the dogma has perished, 46 Rural districts, terror of the, 199
SABBAT, the, agents of the Jacobins, 485 Saint-Fargeau, Lepelletier, advo- cates the abolition of class pri- vileges, 215
Salle, Marquis de la, second in command in the Parisian army, 128; saves the life of the Prince de Montbarry, 160 Salvation and crime, the theological dogma, 19
Santerre, a brewer, proposes to burn the Bastille, 151
Saône, confederation of the, 309 Sartines, M. de, 66; dismissed from office by Necker, 69
Sauce, M., the procurator of the commune of Varennes, 600 Sensitiveness, over, what it may become, 514
Sièyes, the Abbé, absent on the open- ing of the States-General, 86; present at the National Assembly, 95; proposes to summon the clergy and nobility for the last time, 96; his speech in the Na- tional Assembly, 117; present at the Hôtel de Ville, 167; pro- posed as President of the National Assembly, 209; opinions of,
Sombreuil, governor of the Inva-
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