lides, refuses to give up his guns, 146; they are carried off by the people, 148
Sombreuil, a young officer, goes into the Palais Royal to defy the crowd, 133
Sovereignty, the first act of the na- tional, 79
Spirit of exclusion in the French Revolution, 5
Staël, Madame de, present at the opening of the National Assembly, 5th May, 1789, 88; her emotion on the return of her father, 210 States-General, motives of Necker,
the queen, and others for sum- moning, 74; the convocation de- layed, 78; eminent names, 79; procession and opening, 84, 88; question of the separation of the orders, 91; the Third Estate in- vites the others to unite with it, 92, 95; takes the name of the National Assembly, 98 Sufferings and legends of the Middle Ages, 23
Suffren, Admiral-his death, 338 Swiss regiments in the French ser- vice, 462; tyranny of their officers, 462
TALLEYRAND-his appearance, 412; administers the oath in the Field of Mars, ib.
Target, a legist of Paris, reproaches Mirabeau with equivocation, 100; approves of the pamphlet De la Lanterne, 179
Tennis Court, Jeu de Paume, the National Assembly meets in the, 107
Terror, Reign of, at Paris-its com- mencement, 487; its originators, 534; the press, 550; opposition of Mirabeau, 551 Terrorists explanation of their proceedings, 181; royalists, 488; Jacobins, ib.
Theological dogma, imitation of the, by the civil world, 25
Theory, monarchical, of Dante, 35 Théroigne, Mdlle., the Amazon of Liége, gains over the regiment of Flanders, 268; her personal ap- pearance, 519; her visit to the Club of Cordeliers, 520
Third Estate represented by Necker and others as feeble, timid, and subservient, 75; invites the other orders to join with it, 92; last summons of the, 95; as- sumes the name of Communes, 97 Thouret of Rouen reproaches Mira- beau with equivocation, 100; opposed to Sièyes by the Court as President of the National As- sembly, 209; retires from the contest, 210
Thuriot summons De Launey to surrender the Bastille, 149 Titles, abolition of, 409 Tithes, suppression of, 222 Tourzel, Madame de, her folly, 594 Trèves, the emigrant establishment at, 347
Triumgueusat, its meaning, 483 Turgot on the Revolution, 56 Tyranny, regal and popular anar- chy, employed indifferently by Rome, 29
UNIFORM, why proposed for the National Guard, 527
Uzès, Bishop of, his speech in the National Assembly, 216
VALORY, M. de, assists the King's
flight to Varennes, 595; his im- prudence, 598
Varennes, arrest of the King and Queen at, 599
Vaudois regiment, persecution of the, 462
Vaudreuil, Count, leaves France, 175
Vermond, the abbé de, distrusted by Louis XVI., 318
Verrières, a lawyer, at Versailles, 275 Versailles, state of, on the 14th of July, 161; the women march to, 260; the Château stormed by the people, 275
Veto, long discussion in the Na- tional Assembly on the, 233; agitation in Paris on the question, 237
Village associations, their objects, 385
Violence, few acts of, in the early part of the French Revolution, 228
Virieu, Count de, his speech in the
National Assembly, 215 Volney proposes to dissolve the National Assembly, 246 Voltaire expelled the Court, 47; the martyr and apostle of justice,
51; commences the Revolution, 54; honours decreed to, by the National Assembly, 582 Vrillière, La, keeper of the state prisons in the Bastille, 63
WAR, debate in the National As- sembly on the right of making, 332
Women, sufferings of the, in France, 256; their generous compassion, 257; they invade the Hôtel de Ville, 259; march to Versailles, 260; appear before the As- sembly, 263; received by the King with kindness, 265; they gain over the regiment of Flan- ders, 268; in the hall, 271; the return from Versailles, 281; Jaco- bin women, 478; their part in the counter-revolution, 580
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