Chapter 14

Orleans, Duke of, and the Palais Royal,4; and his party clamor for the deposition of the King,270.

Palais Royal, the, in 1792,4.

Pan, Mallet du, sent to Germany by Louis XVI.,135.

Paris, in 1792,1; the Archbishop of, at Versailles, in 1774,78; Commune of, how organized,176; a hell during the September massacres,361.

Pétion, address of, to the Assembly,30; promotes the fête of Chateauvieux,115; fate of,122et seq.; favors the insurrectionists,184; his insolent address to the King,224; the hero of the fête of the Federation,254; presents an address to the Assembly praying for the King's deposition,270; signs an order giving M. de Mandat the right to repel force,280; his treachery and hypocrisy,282.

Philipon, the father of Madame Roland,47.

Prisons of Paris, the September massacres at,363et seq.

Prudhomme'sRévolutions de Parisquoted,225.

Quinet, Edgar, quoted,360,371; on Louis XVI.'s magnanimity,380,384; quoted,392,394.

Raigecourt, Madame de, letter of,24.

Ramond defends Lafayette in the Assembly,235.

Republic proclaimed,388.

Revolution, beginning of the organization of,181.

Revolutionists, the, in the Tuileries,199; insolence of, to the King,200; refuse to leave the Assembly,205; their barbarity and indecency,213.

Robespierre in the Jacobin Club,5; cowardice of,271,316; his defence of the Constitution,385.

Rochefoucauld, Count de la, describes the appearance of the royal family in the box of theLogographe,321.

Roederer, remarks of, on Lafayette,238; urges the King to seek shelter with the Assembly,291,294; addresses the mob,297; explains to the Assembly the cause of King's taking refuge with them,301; blamed for his advice,302.

Roland de la Platière, M., marries Mademoiselle Philipon,55; deputed to the Assembly,63; takes the portfolio of the Interior,70; dominated by his wife,88; his plebeian dress at the Council,103; driven by his wife to hostility against the King,108; his faction desire to destroy the King,160; dismissed from the Council,165; reinstated,319; arrest of, determined,374; writes a letter to the Assembly concerning the massacres,375; continues minister,376; fate of,391.

Roland, Madame, the distinctive characteristics of the century resumed in her,46; early years of,47et seq.; married to Roland de la Platière,55; strives to obtain a patent of nobility for her husband,56; letters of, to Bosc,57; her description of herself,61,74; draws up her husband's reports,63; her infatuation for Buzot,64; her hatred of royalty,65; established in Paris,70; and Marie Antoinette,74; the motive of her hatred of Marie Antoinette,76,80; describes her visit to Versailles,77,79; her part in establishing the republican régime in France,79,107; her judgment of Louis XVI.,81; her character contrasted with that of Marie Antoinette,82; her arrogant demeanor,86; acts for her husband in public affairs,88; her intimacy with Louvet,89et seq.; Lemontey's picture of her,91; and Dumouriez,94,102; creates discord in the Council,106; decides to get rid of Dumouriez,159; her letter to the King,162; her advice on the dismissal of the ministers,165; on the September massacres,362; feels no pity for the Queen,372,375; her horror at the murders,376; her apprehensions,378; reproaches her friends with temporizing,382; her last speech,383.

Rousseau, imprisoned in the Temple,339.

Saint-Antoine, Faubourg, citizens of, ask permission to assemble in arms,182; in commotion,184.

Saint-Huruge, the rioter,193.

Salpêtrière, the, butchery at,368.

Santerre, at the head of the insurrectionists on June 20,186; demands admission for the insurrectionists to the Assembly,190; violence of, at the Tuileries,197; offers to protect the Queen,215; forced by Westermann to march to the Tuileries,286.

September massacres, the,359et seq.

Sergent, M.,207.

Servan, made Minister of War,160; proposes the formation of an army around Paris,160; dismissed from the Council,165; his career after the Revolution,391.

Staël, Madame de, views the fête of the Federation, her observations,253; invents a plan of escape for the King,273; quoted,317,327.

Sudermania, Duke of, brother of Gustavus III., practices of,35.

Sutherland, Lady, sends linen for the Dauphin to the Convent of the Feuillants,333.

Swiss regiment, the, go to the Tuileries,274; ill provided with ammunition,277; defend the Tuileries, but are commanded to retire,307; sweep the Carrousel of rioters,310; ordered to go to the King,311; surrender their arms,313; imprisoned in the church of the Feuillants,313; fate of the,321.

Taine, on revolutionary France,389.

Temple, the, the royal family taken to,336; description of,337; the Order of the,337; destroyed by Napoleon,349.

Thiers, quoted,287.

Thorwaldsen's lion at Lucerne,314.

Tourzel, Pauline de, in peril in the Tuileries,323.

Tuileries, the, guard of,195; the invasion of,198et seq.; the, on the night of August 9,275et seq.; attacked by the Marseillais,306et seq.; rioters in,325; on fire,325.

Vaublanc, Count de, quoted,133; anecdotes of, concerning Louis XVI.,139,140,255,273,282,286,290,303.

Vergniaud,180,182; speech of, with regard to the admission of the insurrectionists to the Assembly,188; violent attack of, on the King,244; as president of the Assembly, receives Louis XVI.,300; presents the decree suspending the royal power,317.

"Violet, Queen,"336.

Voltaire, imprisoned in the Temple,339.

Westermann forces Santerre to march,286; leader of the Marseillais, who attacked the Tuileries,306,308.


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