The French Revolution

by Sir Charles Edward Mallet

A.
Actes des Apôtres, Royalist newspaper, [111].
Aiguillon, Duc d', [104].
Aix, Archbishop of, [99];
reaction at, [279].
Aix-la-Chapelle, Emigrants at, [160].
Albitte, [216].
Allies, Louis' dealings with the, [173]-174;
advance of, in 1792, [177];
retreat of, [180];
renewed advance of, in 1793, [194], [205];
retreat of, [206], [275]-277.
Alsace, war in, [276].
Amar, [212], [271].
America, sympathy with, in Europe, [42];
expenses of alliance with, [48];
Lafayette in, [116].
Ami du Peuple, Marat's newspaper, [109]-111.
Ami du Roi, Royalist newspaper, [111].
Amiens, relief works in, [134];
distress at, in 1795, [270].
Amsterdam, French conquest of, [277].
Anjou, Métayers in, [20].
Aranda, [42].
Army, disorderly state of, [80]-83, [170];
reorganisation of, under the Terror, [273]-276;
power of, [282].
See War.
Arras, Lebon at, [217];
Robespierre at, [249].
Artisans, position of, before the Revolution, [17]-18;
distress of, in 1789, [58]-61, [68]-69;
disappointment of, [131]-134, [136]-137, [197];
under the Terror, [217], [226], [269], [271].
Artois, one of the Pays d'État, [6];
Comte d', [116], [160], [161].
Assignats, origin of, [90]-91;
depreciation of, [91]-92, [196]-197, [224], [267]-270.
Augereau, [274].
Austria, Joseph's reforms in, [156];
policy of, [276]-278.
See Leopold and Allies.
Autun, Talleyrand bishop of, [102].
Auvergne, Malouet's fame in, [100].
Avignon, revolutionary excesses at, [141];
reaction at, [279].
B.
Babœuf, [220].
Bailly, Mayor of Paris, [67], [68], [145];
character of, [102];
political views of, [135];
action of, on the 17th July, 1791, [151];
retirement of, [165];
death of, [207].
Bâle, Peace of, [278].
Barbaroux, [184].
Barère, in the Constituent Assembly, [104];
as a journalist, [108];
in the Committee of Public Safety, [214], [220], [221];
fall of, [265], [271].
Barnave, in the Constituent Assembly, [104];
at the Jacobins, [106];
political views of, [126], [135], [150], [152];
death of, [207].
Barras, [217], [274], [281].
Bassano, Maret, Duc de, [108].
Bastille, destruction of, [58], [89].
Bazire, [237].
Béarn, one of the Pays d'État, [6.]
Beauharnais, Madame de, [185].
Belgium, war in, [170], [180], [194], [275], [277].
Bernadotte, [274].
Bernard de Saintes, [217].
Besançon, rising at, [61];
relief-works at, [134].
Billaud-Varennes, at the Jacobins, [150], [167];
in the Committee of Public Safety, [214], [215], [234], [240], [259];
retirement of, [262];
fall of, [265], [271].
Bô, [216]
Boissy d'Anglas, [263].
Bonaparte, [274], [281], [282].
Bordeaux, trade of, before the Revolution, [43];
connection of, with the Gironde, [184], [205];
under the Terror, [217], [224], [225].
Borie, [217].
Bouchotte, [236], [273].
Bouillé, [82].
Bourbon, Duchesse de, [44].
Bourbotte, [263], [273].
Bourdon, Léonard, [217];
de l'Oise, [237], [259], [263].
Bourgeois. See Middle Class.
Bourges, suggested as meeting-place for Convention, [201].
Brienne, Loménie de, Archbishop of Toulouse, [15];
Comptroller-General, [49]-51.
Brissot, as a journalist, [107]-108;
political influence of, [150], [164], [167], [184];
death of, [207].
Brittany, one of the Pays d'-État, [6];
the Chouans in, [278].
Broglie, Maréchal de, [58];
Madame de, [185].
Brumaire, [227].
Brunswick, Duke of, [173], [174], [180].
Brussels, journalism in, [107];
taken by the French, [277].
Buffon, [34].
Burgundy, one of the Pays d'État, [6].
Burke, [64], [194].
Buzot, [105], [184].
C.
Cadillac, dearth in, [225].
Caen, rising at, in 1789, [61];
connection with the Gironde, [205], [206];
distress in, in 1795, [270].
Cahiers, the, [51].
Caisse d'Escompte, Necker's loans from the, [88].
Calendar, the New, [227], [228].
Calonne, [48], [160].
Cambacères, [263].
Cambon, [233], [263], [267], [271].
Camus, [103].
Capitaineries, the, [21], [22].
Carnot, in the Committee of Public Safety, [214], [215], [234], [241];
representative on mission with the Army, [274].
Carrier, at Nantes, [217], [232], [236], [278];
Robespierre and, [250];
arrest of, [265].
Catherine of Russia, [42], [156];
designs of, on Turkey, [157], [159];
negotiations with the Comte d'Artois, [160].
See Russia.
Cavaignac, [274].
Cazalés, [99].
Chabot, [143], [237].
Chambon, [190], [193].
Chambonas, Madame de, [185].
Champ de Mars, Massacre of, [151];
Feast of Supreme Being in, [257].
Chaumette, among the Jacobin leaders, [143];
in the Commune of Paris, [190], [212], [227], [229], [236].
Chollet, Battle of, [276].
Chouans, the, in Brittany, [278].
Church, jealousy of local Parlements towards, [6];
relations of, to State under Ancien Régime, [6], [15];
privileges and dignitaries of, [15], [16];
poverty of parish priests in, [16];
tyranny of, [28], [33];
attack on by Encyclopaedists, [33], [34];
property of, declared to belong to the nation, [83], [84];
reorganisation of, by Constituent Assembly, [84]-87;
sale of lands of, [90], [132], [133], [140];
disorder caused by attack on, [141];
attitude of Legislative Assembly towards, [165];
attitude of Convention towards, [265].
Civil Code, the, [211].
Civil Constitution of Clergy, the, [84]-87.
See Church.
Classical spirit, influence of the, [29].
Clermont-Tonnerre, Comte de, [100], [126].
Clootz, Anacharsis, [143], [236].
Club, des Impartiaux, [106];
Monarchique, [106];
of 1789, [106];
Feuillant, [152];
clubs prohibited by Convention, [280].
See Cordeliers and Jacobin Club.
Coblentz, emigrants at, [161].
Coffinhal, [212].
Collot d'Herbois, among the Jacobin leaders, [143];
elected to Convention, [182];
at Lyons, [217], [232], [241];
in the Committee of Public Safety, [214], [215], [234], [236], [240], [244], [246];
retirement of, [262];
fall of, [265], [271].
Commission of Twelve, appointed, [201];
cancelled, [205].
Committee of General Security, appointed by Convention, [195];
functions of, [212];
Commune and, [236].
Committee of Public Safety, appointed by Convention, [195];
powers and members of, [212]-215;
Convention and, [236], [242], [244], [246];
Danton and, [245]-247;
Robespierre and, [255], [259];
remodelled in 1794, [262].
Committees of the Convention, work of, [210], [211].
Committees, Revolutionary, in Sections of Paris, [200], [212], [262];
in the provinces, [213].
Commune of Paris, organisation of, [145];
Sections of, [145]-147;
Insurrectionary Commune of the 10th August, [174]-178;
its attitude towards the September Massacres, [178], [179];
its leaders elected to the Convention, [182], [183];
its dissolution, [189], [190];
the Jacobins regain control of, [193];
action of, in 1793, [197], [199], [202];
Insurrectionary Commune of the 31st May, [204], [205];
power of, under the Terror, [212], [218], [227], [229], [231], [236], [237], [241];
reaction against, [240]-245;
fall of, [245], [246];
supports Robespierre, [255], [259], [260];
abolition of, [262].
Compagnies de Jésus, [272].
Compagnies du Sol, [272].
Comptroller-General, powers of, [7], [9], [10].
Condé, Fortress of, taken by the Allies, [205];
Prince of, at Worms, [161].
Condorcet, Madame de, [185], [186];
Marquis de, [184], [193].
Constituent Assembly, constituted, [57];
character of, [64];
early history of, [65]-72;
jealous of executive, [71]-74;
new system of Local Government, [75]-79;
judicial reforms, [79], [80];
passion for electoral contrivances, [74], [75], [79], [82], [83], [85];
military reforms, [80]-83;
church reforms, [83]-87;
confiscation of church property, [84], [90];
finance, [87]-96;
parties in, [98]-105;
close of, [153].
Constitution, of 1791, [71]-87, [131], [132], [152]-154, [278];
of 1793, [208]-210, [271];
of 1795, [279]-281.
Constitutional Party, the, [135], [150]-154.
Contrat Social, doctrine of the, [39]-41, [137]-140.
Convention, meeting of, [182];
early parties in, [183], [186]-190;
demoralisation of, [192];
decrees of, early in 1793, [195], [196]-198;
defeat of Girondists in, [201]-205;
the rule of the Jacobins in, [208]-235;
reforms of, [210], [211];
representatives of, on mission, [215]-217;
Jacobin schisms in, [236]-260;
struggle with the Commune, [237], [242]-246;
struggle with Robespierre, [259], [260];
reaction in, [261]-273;
finance of, [218]-223, [266]-270;
close of, [279]-281.
Corday, Charlotte, [186], [206].
Cordeliers Club, [105], [150], [236], [246].
Corvée, the, [22], [45].
Côte-d'Or, the Terror in the, [217].
Council, of the King at Versailles, [7];
of the Ancients and of the Five Hundred, [279]-281.
Courrier de Provence, Mirabeau's paper, [107].
Couthon, [213], [214], [217], [241], [255].
Custine, [255].
D.
D'Alembert, [34].
Danton, rise of, [105], [143];
in July, 1791,[150], [151];
protests against war, [167];
on the 20th June, [172];
on the overthrow of the Monarchy, [175]-180;
views on the September Massacres, [179];
elected to Convention, [182];
policy in Legislative Assembly, [193]-201;
during the Terror, [237]-241;
final struggle and fall, [242]-248.
Dartigoyte, [217], [231].
Dauphin, death of the, [278].
Dauphiné, popular movement in, [50], [100].
Davoût, [274].
De Lessart, [166].
Departments, created by Constituent Assembly, [75];
under Constitution of 1795, [280].
D'Eprémesnil, [99].
Desfieux, [237].
Desmoulins, Camille, rise of, [109], [143];
attacks the Terror, [237]-244;
arrest of, [247];
Lucile, [185]-186.
Diderot, [31], [34].
Dijon, rising in, [61].
Directory, establishment of, [279]-282.
Districts, division of France into, [75],
abolished, [280].
Dom Gerle, [103].
D'Ormesson, [190].
Drouet, [274].
Dubarry, Madame, execution of, [207].
Dubois-Crancé, [275].
Dumont, André, [216], [263].
Dumouriez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, [167]-171;
Lafayette and, [171];
wins the battles of Valmy and Jemappes, [180];
defeat of, at Neerwinden, [194];
desertion of, to Austrians, [195].
Duport, [104], [106], [113].
Dutard, reports of, [202]-204.
E.
Economists, the, [36].
Elections, of 1789, [52], [53];
small polls at, in 1790 and 1791, [130], [131], [153], [154];
of Mayors of Paris, [165], [190], [193];

to the Legislative Assembly, [153], [154];
to the Convention, [182], [183];
under the Constitution of 1795, [280], [281].
Elégants, the, [264].
Elsinore, sympathy for American Revolution at, [42].
Emigrants, selfish policy of, [159]-163, [174], [279];
decrees against, in 1791, [165];
the Reaction and the, [265], [271], [279], [280].
Encylopaedia, the, [33]-36.
England, policy of, [194], [277], [278].
Evêché, Section of the, [204].
F.
Fabre d'Églantine, [237], [245].
Fabre d'Hérault, [274].
Farming, system of, before Revolution, [19], [20].
Faubourg St. Antoine, [174], [273].
Fédérés, the, [173], [174], [190].
Fernig, Demoiselles de, [186].
Feudal Privileges, [11], [21], [22];
attacks on, [61], [67].
Feuillants, club of the, [152].
Finance, of the Ancien Régime, [7], [12], [15], [23]-25, [45], [48], [49];
of the Constituent Assembly, [87]-96;
of the Terror, [266]-268.
See Assignats and Taxes.
Fleuriot, [256].
Floréal, [228].
Fouché, [217], [232], [236].
Foulon, murder of, [67].
Fouquier-Tinville, [212], [232], [272].
Fox, [42].
Francis, Emperor, [168].
Frederick the Great, [42].
Frederick William, King of Prussia, [156].
Fréron, [143], [217], [232], [263], [264].
Frimaire, [227].
Fructidor, [228].
G.
Gabelle, the, [24], [25];
abolition of, [94].
Garat, [103], [193], [201], [202], [254].
Gard, District of the, [217].
Gardes Françaises, the, [60], [68].
Gazette de France, the, [106], [107].
Geneva, Journalism at, [107].
Genlis, Madame de, [185].
Gensonné, [164], [184].
German Empire, foundation of, ultimately due to the Wars of the Revolution, [181].
Germinal, [228].
See Insurrection.
Gers, District of the, [217].
Girondists, the, in the Legislative Assembly, [163], [164], [165];
war policy of, [166]-168;
attitude of, towards king, [171], [172], [174], [175], [191];
and towards the Prison Massacres, [179];
in the Convention, [183], [184];
principles of, contrasted with those of the Jacobins, [187]-189;
struggle of, with the Jacobins, [189]-204;
fall of, [204]-207;
recall of, [265], [266].
Gorsas, [184].
Gouges, Olympe de, [186].
Goujon, [263], [273].
Gouly, [216].
Grégoire, [103], [143].
Guadet, [164], [184].
Guffroy, [231], [273].
Guilds, monopoly of, in eighteenth century, [17], [18];
suppression of, [45], [46], [95].
Gustavus III, King of Sweden, [156], [160].
Guyardin, [217].
H.
Hague, Treaty of the, [277].
Hanriot, [204], [205], [212], [256], [260].
Haute Loire, District of the, [217].
Hébert, rise of, [143], [178], [190];
attack on, by Girondists, [204];
under the Terror, [212], [222], [227];
character of, [231];
as a journalist, [231], [236];
attack on, by Robespierre and others, [241]-245;
fall of, [246].
Helvetius, [35], [110].
Hérault de Séchelles, [208], [214], [241].
Herman, [212].
Hoche, [255], [276], [279].
Holbach, [35].
Holland, invasion of, [194], [277].
Hondschöten, Battle of, [206].
Houchard, [206], [207], [255], [275].
I.
Illuminati, the, [42].
Indre, Districts of the, [225], [226].
Insurrection, of 14th July, 1789, [58];
of 5th and 6th October, 1789, [69];
of 20th June, 1792, [172];
of 10th August, 1792, [174], [175];
of 31st May, 1793, [204], [205];
of Robespierre, [260];
of Germinal, [271];
of Prairial, [272];
of Vendémiaire, [281].
Intendants, position of, [7]-10;
decline of, [47];
fall of, [62].
Isnard, [184], [266].
Issy l'Evêque, priest of, [138].
J.
Jacobin Club, origin of, [105],[106];
organisation of, [142]-145;
attitude of, in summer of 1791, [150]-154;
protests against war, [167];
share of, in elections of 1792, [182], [183];
under the Terror, [213];
parties at, in 1793-94, [241]-246;
under Robespierre, [255], [259];
close of, [263], [265].
Jacobins, rise of the, [129]-154;
theory of the, [137]-140, [209];
numbers and organisation of the, [142]-147, 199;
leaders of the, [143], [229]-235;
in the Constituent, [105], [149]-153;
in the Legislative, [163], [164];
opposed to war, [166], [167];
attitude of, towards Prison Massacres, [178], [179];
in the Convention, [182]-183;
attitude of, on question of Louis' death, [191];
struggle with Girondists, [189]-206;
Government of, [212]-216;
principles applied, [218]-229;
character of, [187], [216], [217], [229]-235, [283];
schisms and struggles among, [237]-260, [262]-273.
Jansenists, the, [103].
Javogues, [217], [231].
Jemappes, Battle of, [180].
Jeunes Gens, the, [264], [272], [279].
Jeunesse Dorée, the, [264].
Jews, attacks on the, [61].
Joseph, Emperor, [42], [156]-158.
Jourdan, [206], [274], [275].
Journal de Paris, the, [106].
Journal des Débats, [108].
Journal des Etats-Généraux, Mirabeau's journal, [107].
Journal Général de la Cour et de la Ville, Reactionary journal, [112].
K.
Kellermann, [255].
King. See Louis XVI.
Kléber, [274], [276].
Kosciusko, [277].
L.
Labourers. See Peasants and Artisans.
Laclos, [113], [144].
Lacombe, Proconsul in Bordeaux, [217];
Rose, [186].
Lacretelle, [264].
Lacroix, [237].
Lafayette, and the National Guard, [67], [68], [118], [153];
on 5th October, [70];
Marat and, [111];
Orleans and, [114];
character and views of, [116]-118;
Mirabeau and, [73], [121], [122];
party of, [131], [135], [150], [153], [163];
at Massacre of Champ de Mars, [151];
not elected Mayor, [165];
policy of, in spring and summer, 1792, [166]-173;
flight of, [177].
Lakanal, [216].
Lally-Tollendal, [100].
La Marck, [121], [123].
Lameths, the, in the Constituent, [104];
party of, [131], [135], [150].
Landes, District of the, [217].
Languedoc, one of the Pays d'État, [6].
Lanjuinais, [103], [184], [266].
Laon, distress in, [270].
Laplanche, [231].
Lebon, [143], [217], [232], [273].
Lecarpentier, [216].
Lecointre, [237], [263].
Legendre, [237], [263], [265].
Legislative Assembly, meeting of, [163];
parties in, [163], [164];
policy of, [165], [167], [168], [169], [171], [172], [173], [178], [179].
Le Mans, Battle of, [276].
Leopold II, succeeds Emperor Joseph, [157], [158];
policy of, [159]-163;
death of, [168].
Lepelletier Section, the, [281].
Lindet, [214], [215], [234], [273].
Linguet, [107].
Local Government, new system of, [75]-79.
Locke, [110]
Loire, war on the, [205].
London, Journalism in, [107].
Longwy, surrender of, [177].
Louis XI, [5].
Louis XIV, [14].
Louis XVI, Court of, [44];
emancipates serfs, [44];
charities of, [44], [45];
character of, [45];
early reforms of, [45]-47;
States-General and, [53], [55], [57], [58], [67];
visit to Paris, [67];
on 5th and 6th October, [69], [70];
Constituent Assembly and, [73], [74], [87], [150], [152];
flight to Varennes, [149];
army under, [81];
deposition demanded, [150];
Legislative Assembly and, [165]-173;
Lafayette and, [70], [172];
the Allies and, [173], [174];
Girondists and, [167], [171], [174], [175], [191];
dethroned, [175];
executed, [191], [194].
Loustallot, [108], [109].
Louvet, [184], [266].
Lyons, troubles at, [61], [134], [141];
declares against Jacobin Government, [205], [216], [217];
trade of, ruined by Revolution, [224];
distress in, [225], [270].
M.
Maignet, [217], [258].
Mallet du Pan, [107], [112], [173], [174].
Malmesbury, [277].
Malouet in Constituent Assembly, [64], [100], [101], [152];
his estimate of the Jacobins, [143];
Louis and, [173].
Manfredini, [42].
Marat, editor of Ami du Peuple, [109];
early career and character of, [109]-111;
in July, 1791, [150], [151];
protests against war, [167];
approves, September Massacres, [178];
in the Convention, [182], [190], [197], [210];
assassination of, [206].
Maréchaussée, the, [8.]
Maret, [108].
Marie Antoinette, character of, [48];
political influence of, [48], [58], [125], [162], [165], [186];
execution of, [207].
Marseilles, disorder in, [141];
declares against Jacobin Government, [205];
under the Terror, [216], [217], [225];
reaction at, [279].
Massacre, of Champ de Mars, [151];
of September, in the prisons, [178].
Masséna, [274].
Maury, [99].
Maximum, the, established, [198], [222], [223];
repealed, [266]-270.
Mayence, emigrants at, [159];
retaken by Allies, [205].
Mercure, Constitutional journal, [106], [112].
Méricourt, Théroigne de, [186].
Merlin, of Douai, [105], [263];
of Thionville, [263], [274].
Mesmerists, the, [42].
Messidor, [228].
Métayers, position of the, [20], [21], [132].
Middle classes, under Ancien Régime, [16], [17], [18], [43];
gainers by Revolution, [132];
cease to support Revolution, [202], [203];
Jacobin measures against, [222], [223];
in the Reaction, [264].
Milhaud, [274].
Militia, the, [22], [23].
Mirabeau, Comte de, in the Constituent Assembly, [57], [63], [64], [65], [72], [73],
[74], [84], [89], [90], [91], [92], [103], [106], [122], [123];
as journalist, [107];
political aims, [118], [119], [120];
Lafayette and, [121], [122];
notes for the Court, [123]-127;
pensioned by the Court, [127], [128];
character of, [128];
death of, [128], [147];
Marquis de, [44];
Vicomte de, [99].
Molleville, Bertrand de, [166].
Momoro, [237]; Sophie, [186].

Monasteries, abolition of the, [84], [85].
Monciel, Terrier de, [172], [173].
Moniteur, the, [107], [108].
Monsieur. See Provence.
Montaubon, religious troubles at, [141].
Montesquieu, [31], [32].
Montmartre, relief works at, [69].
Montmorin, [122], [126], [166], [173].
Montreuil-sur-Mer, distress at, [270].
Moreau, [274].
Morelly, [36].
Mounier, [50], [100], [101].
Mountain, the, [197], [198];
after Thermidor, [262], [263], [271].
See Jacobins.
Municipality of Paris. See Commune.
Muscadins, the, [220], [264].
Mysticism, revival of, in eighteenth century, [42].
N.
Nancy, mutiny at, [82];
distress at, [270], [271].
Nantes, Vendéans at, [206];
Carrier at, [217];
decline of commerce at, [224].
Napoleon, at the capture of the Tuileries, [175].
See Bonaparte.
Narbonne, [166], [167].
National Agents, [213].
National Assembly, title taken by Commons, [57].
See Constituent Assembly.
National Debt. See Finance.
National Guard, creation of the, [62], [76], [78];
Lafayette and the, [67], [68], [118], [153], [172];
action of the, [136], [140], [141], [179];
reorganised as battalions of the Sections, [199];
under Hanriot, [204], [205], [212], [256], [260];
changes in the, after Thermidor, [262], [271], [273];
on 13th Vendémiaire, [281].
Necker, reforming ministry of, [14], [42], [46];
fall of, [47], [48];
recall of, [51];
vacillation of, [53], [56];
dismissed again, [58];
finance of, [88], [89];
failure of, [114], [115];
Madame, [185].
Neerwinden, defeat of Dumouriez at, [194].
Newton, [110].
Ney, [274].
Nice, French successes at, [194].
Nîmes, religious troubles at, [141].
Nivôse, [227].
Noailles, Vicomte de, [104].
Nobles, under the Ancien Régime, [11]-14, [44];
in States-General, [56], [57].
Notables, of 1787, [49];
of 1788, [53].
Notre Dame, Goddess of Reason installed in, [227].
O.
Orange, tribunal of, [258];
Prince of, [277].
Orateur du Peuple, Fréron's journal, [263].
Orleans, high court at, [80];
Duke of, 12, 14, 69, [112]-114, [150], [207].
P.
Pache, minister of war, [190], [192], [193];
Mayor of Paris, [193], [212], [236];
proscription of, [273].
Palais Royal, meetings in, [60], [69], [113], [264].
Panckoucke, [106], [107].
Panis, [178], [212], [273].
Paris, excitement and distress in, [26], [51], [58], [59], [60], [67], [68], [69], [133],
[136], [171], [173];
influence of, on finance of Constituent Assembly, [89], [95];
clubs in, [105], [106], [144];
numbers of Jacobins in, [143];
government of, [145]-147;
Prison Massacres in, [175]-179;
agitation against Louis, [171], [173], [191];
the Girondists and, [193], [196]-205;
under the Terror, [222]-228, [242], [260];
Reaction in, [263], [264], [271], [272], [273], [279], [281].
Paris, Parlement of, [49], [50].
Parlements, the local, [6], [7], [79].
Parties, in Constituent Assembly, [98]-105;
in Legislative Assembly, [163], [164];
in Convention, [183], [184], [237], [240], [259], [262], [263], [273], [279].
Patriote Français, Brissot's journal, [108].
Payan, [256].
Pays d'Élection, provincial assemblies created in, [46].
Pays d'État, the, [6].
Peasantry, condition of, under Ancien Régime, [19]-27;
outbreak of, in 1789, [58]-62;
disappointed with the Revolution, [132], [133], [136], [137], [139], [141];
under the Terror, [217], [219], [220], [223], [224], [225];
in the Reaction, [270], [282].
Père Duchesne, Hébert's journal, [231].
Pétion, in Constituent Assembly, [105], [106], [153];
Mayor of Paris, [165], [179], [184], [190].
Petit Gautier. See Journal Général de la Cour et de la Ville.
Philippe Egalité. See Orleans.
Philippeaux, [237], [245].
Philosophers, the, in eighteenth century, [28]-36.
Physiocrats, the, [36].
Picardy, distress in, [270].
Pichegru, [271], [274], [275], [276].
Pillnitz, conference of, [159]-162.
Pitt, policy of, [42], [156], [157], [194];
Robespierre on, [252].
See England.
Pluviôse, [228].
Point du Jour, Barère's paper, [108].
Poland, influence of, on European politics, [157]-159, [277];
Kosciusko's revolt in, [277].
Police of Paris, under Ancien Régime, [60];
during Revolution, [199], [200], [202].
Poll-tax, [12], [24], [95].
Pombal, [42].
Pope, the, alienated by Constituent Assembly, [86], [87];
rule of, at Avignon, [141].
Prairial, [228].
See Insurrection.
Press, the, controlled by Church, [15], [33];
new power of, [106]-112;
during the Reaction, [263].
Prieur (of the Côte-d'Or), [214], [215].
Prieur (of the Marne), [214], [215].
Provence, Comte de, policy of, [115], [116];
Mirabeau and, [126];
Emigrants and, [161], [165], [279].
Provincial Assemblies, in 1787, [46].
Prudhomme, [106], [107].
Prussia, policy of, [156]-162, [276]-278.
See Allies.
Q.
Queen. See Marie Antoinette.
Quesnai, [36].
Quiberon, Emigrants at, [279].
R.
Rabaut de St. Etienne, [103].
Reason, worship of, [186], [227], [237].
Representatives on mission, [195], [213], [215]-217, [274].
Republic, talk of, [150];
proclamation of, [189].
Réveil du Peuple, Reactionary song, [264].
Révolutions de France et de Brabant, Desmoulins' paper, [109].
Révolutions de Paris, Democratic paper, [107], [108].
Revolutionary Army, the, [199], [212], [233].
Revolutionary Government, the, [212]-217.
Revolutionary Tribunal, the, established, [195];
reorganised, [212], [257], [258];
abolished, [273].
Rewbell, [105], [274].
Reynaud, [217].
Rhine, war on the, [194], [276], [277].
Richard, [274].
Richelieu, policy of,[ 5].
Rights of Man, declaration of the, [66].
Robespierre, in the Constituent Assembly, [105], [106], [147]-153;
the typical Jacobin, [41], [143], [147];
policy and position of, in 1791, [147]-153;
opposes war, [167];
action on the 20th June, [172];
elected to the Convention, [182];
attacks of Girondists on, [190];
in Committee of Public Safety, [213], [214], [220], [221], [226], [228], [229], [230], [234];
attacks the Commune, [241]-246;
deserts Danton, [247];
ascendency of, [248]-260;
character of, [148], [248]-255;
review of his career, [249]-255;
power of, in 1794, [255], [256];
his belief in the Terror, [255]-257;
his action when in power, [257], [258];
his fall, [259], [260].
Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Duc de, [100].
Rohan, Cardinal de, [16].
Roland, Minister of the Interior, [167];
dismissal of, [171];
return of, to office, [175];
and September Massacres, [179];
carries dissolution of Insurrectionary Commune, [189];
resignation of, [192];
Madame, [164], [171], [184], [185], [207].
Romme, [263], [273].
Ronsin, [232], [236], [243].
Rosicrucians, the, [42].
Rouen, Archbishop of, [15], [99];
rising at, [61];
Mirabeau advises the King to retire to, [121];
distress at, [225].
Rousseau, influence of, [31], [34], [36]-41.
See Contrat Social.
Rühl, [212], [273].
Russia, policy of, [156]-159, [277], [278].
See Catherine and Allies.
S.
Sabran, Madame de, [185].
Sainte-Amaranthe, Mme de, [185].
Santerre, [172].
Sardinia, policy of, [160].
Saverne, Cardinal de Rohan's palace at, [16].
Savoy, war in, [194].
Sections, organisation of the Parisian, [145]-147, [199], [200], [212], [213], [242];
insurrections prepared in the, [174], [175], [198], [201], [203], [204], [205], [260], [281];
committees in the, [146], [195], [200], [212], [213];
battalions of the, [199];
police of the, [146], [199], [200];
reaction in the, [264], [271].
Seigneur, rights of. See Feudal.
Sémonville, [126].
Sentinelle du Peuple, Democratic paper, [107].
Serfdom, extinction of, [20], [44].
Sergent, [178].
Servan, [170], [171], [254].
Sieyès, Abbé, writings of, [51];
in the Constituent Assembly, [84], [102];
the Girondists and, [164];
in the Convention, [211];
during the Reaction, [263], [280].
Social Compact. See Contrat Social.
Socialism, beginnings of, [36], [218]-226.
Soho, Marat in, [110].
Soubrany, [263], [273].
Soult, [274].
Spain, policy of, [156], [160], [278].
St. André, Jean Bon, [214], [234], [273].
St. Antoine, Faubourg, insurrection of, [174];
disarmed, [273].
St. Domingo, trouble in, [71].
St. Etienne, Terror at, [217].
St. Hurugues, Marquis de, [113].
St. Just, among the Jacobin leaders, [143];
in Committee of Public Safety and Convention, [213], [214], [220], [221],
[222], [226], [229], [234], [241];
on mission, [216], [274];
relations with Danton and Robespierre, [245], [246], [255], [256], [257], [259], [260].
Staël, Madame de, [166], [185].
States-General, elections to the, [31]-54;
opening of the, [55]-57.
See Constituent Assembly.
Strasbourg, Bishop of, [16];
rising at, [61];
plots at, [161];
decline of trade in, [224];
working men imprisoned in, [225].
Subdelegates, powers of, [9], [47].
Suvórof, [277].
Sweden, policy of, [156], [160].
See Gustavus.
Swedenborgians, the, [42].
T.
Taille, the, [23], [24].
Talleyrand, [102], [106].
Tallien, on mission, [216];
in Thermidor, [259];
during the Reaction, [263], [264];
Madame, [186].
Talma, Madame, [185].
Talon, [126].
Tarascon, Reaction at, [279].
Target, [103].
Taxes, under Ancien Régime, [23]-25;
of the Constituent Assembly, [93]-96;
resistance to, [139], [196], [267];
on the rich, [198], [220].
See Finance.
Tennis Court Oath, the, [57].
Tenures, of the Ancien Régime, [19]-21.
Terror, establishment of the, [170], [195], [206], [212];
government of the, [212]-217;
principles of the, [218]-230;
character of the leaders of the, [230]-235, [283];
Danton and the, [238], [240], [242];
Robespierre and the, [256], [257], [258], [261];
end of the, [261], [262], [273].

Thermidor, [228];
insurrection of, [259], [260].
Thermidorians, the, [263], [279].
Thibeaudeau, [263].
Thouret, [103], [126].
Three Hundred, the, [145].
Thugut, [276].
Thuriot, [263], [271].
Tiers-État, importance of the, [51], [52], [53];
constitutes itself the National Assembly, [57].
Toulon, declares against Jacobin government, [205], [216], [217];
capture of, [244].
Toulouse, Archbishop of, [15], [49];
distress in, [134].
Trèves, Emigrants at, [159].
Trianon, the Queen at, [44].
Tronchet, [103].
Troyes, Bishop of, [15];
rising at, [61];
distress in, [270].
Tuileries, attacks on, [172], [175].
Turgot, observations of, [23], [26];
contributes to Encyclopaedia, [34];
one of the economists, [36];
Comptroller-General, [45];
fall of, [47].
Turkey, critical position of, [157].
Turreau, 'Hellish Columns' of, [278].
V.
Vacheron, [231].
Vadier, in Constituent Assembly, [105];
in Committee of General Security, [212], [232];
fall of, [265], [271].
Valenciennes, captured, [205].
Valmy, Battle of, [180].
Varennes, Louis' flight to, [149].
Vaucluse, Terror in the, [217].
Vendée, la, nobles of, [13];
rising in, [199], [205], [206], [276], [278], [279].
Vendémiaire, [227];
insurrection of, [281].
Ventôse, [228].
Verdun, surrender of, [177], [178].
Vergniaud, in the Legislative, [164];
in the Convention, [183], [184];
on the execution of the King, [191];
death of, [207].
Versailles, King's Council at, 7, 9;
Court at, [12], [13];
States General at, [55]-58, [63]-67;
Parisian mob at, [69];
suggested meeting of Convention at, [201].
Veto, debates on the, [67].
Victor, [274].
Vieux Cordelier, Desmoulins' paper, [242]-245.
Vincent, [236], [243].
Vingtièmes, the, [12], [24].
Vizille, Assembly of, [50].
Volney, [107].
Voltaire, [31]-33, [110].
W.
War, desired by Girondists, [164];
opposed by Jacobins, [166], [167];
declared against Austria, [168];
effects of, [168], [169], [170], [181], [224];
progress of, [170], [173], [177], [180], [181], [194], [205], [206], [235], [273]-279;
in La Vendée, [199], [205], [206], [276], [278], [279].
Warsaw, Polish revolt at, [277].
Wattignies, Battle of, [206].
Westermann, [237].
West Indies, trade of, affected, [224].
Women, part played by, in the Revolution, [184]-186.
Worms, Emigrants at, [161].
Y.
Young, Arthur, observations of, [19], [43], [224].
Ysabeau, [216].

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