Abbaye, butchery at the,302.Abrantes (Duchess of), statement of,400.Allies, condition and force of the,295;vanquished at Valmy,306.American War, its influence upon France,61.Amnesty, a general, obtained by Necker,139;opposed by Mirabeau,139.Anecdote of Verginaud in the prison,354.Anne (of Austria), her regency,27.Anniversary of destruction of Bastille, preparation for the,181.Aristocracy, destroyed by universal education,46;of wealth warred against,331.Arms taken by the people,119.Army, desertion of the officers of the,241;(of the interior), formation of the,412.Arrangement between king and exiled Parliament,69.Arrest of the royal family in their flight,202.Assembly (of Notables) meet and overthrow Calonne,67;dissolution of the,68;National, the name chosen,91;hall of the, closed,93;shut out of tennis-court,96;ordered by the king to dissolve,98;good advice of, to the people,105;petition to the, for a removal of the foreign troops,112;declares itself permanent,113;reconciliation of, to the king,125;recognized government of France,127;three parties in the,144;Marat's opinion of the,146;members of the, threatened,149;change of name,167;(Constituent), vote themselves the Church treasures,170;resolve of, concerning the king's escape,210;preparations for defense by the,211;address of, to the French nation,215;threatened by Marquis Bouillé,222;decree of, declaring journey of the king faultless,224;influence of the, declining,226;denounced as traitors,226;receives the mandate of the Jacobins,228;Constitution completed by the,230;decree of, dissolving itself,234;dissolution of the,235;(Legislative), sends forces to the frontier,247;sends the king's troops to the frontier,276;unpopularity of,280;the king seeks refuge with the,285;the, stormed by the mob,286;decrees the suspension of the king,289;overawed by the Jacobins,295;decree of, that two thirds of their own number should be elected to the new legislative bodies,403.See alsoConvention.Assignats, how secured,170.Augereau, bloodless victory of,423.Austria, reply of, to the French embassador,245;Francis II. ascends the throne of,246;demands of, that France should restore despotic power,249.Autun (Bishop of), answer of Napoleon to the,231.Bagatelle, pleasure-house of the Count d'Artois,72.Bailly (Mons.), attempt to eject him from Assembly,101;resigns presidency of the Assembly,105;testimony of, regarding the king,111;resigns his post as Mayor of Paris,243;execution of,362.Banishment of Parliament to Troyes,69;result of, in Paris,69.Bank, establishment of a,36.Bankruptcy in France,36;the national, described63;a partial,76.Barnave, character of,216;influence of conversation of, on queen,217;speech of, on governments,225;his last interview with the queen,252.Baronial times, France during the,22.Barras, assumes the command of the National Guard,384;nominates Napoleon as commander of the army,404.Barry (Madam du), character of,43.Bastille, storming of the, decided upon,118;attack on the,120;surrendered by its garrison,121;garrisoned by the people,123;influence of the fall of, upon the court,123;the, ordered to be demolished,130;description of the,53;anniversary of destruction of,182;site of the, converted into a ball-room,186.Beaurepaire (General), suicide of,299.Bed of justice, the custom,68.Beggary now becoming universal,169.Bensenval exhorts De Launey to be firm,120.Berthier, character of,135;death of,137.Bertrand de Moleville, interview of, with the king,236.Bible, how used by the Papists,48;reason of its rejection by corrupt men,49.Bill of Rights and Constitution,145.Billaud Varennes, speech of,392.Birth, in the minds of the nobility, superior even to genius,45.Bohemia, war declared against, by France,249.Boissy d'Anglas, heroism of,400.Bonaparte (Napoleon), his boyhood,76;eloquence of,230;opinion of, touching discipline of troops,231;confers the cross of the Legion of Honor upon a tragedian,178;remarks of, upon the riot,301;his first action in the Revolution,374;intrusted with the defense of Paris,405;receives the thanks of the Convention,409;his support of the Directory,413;ill health of,420;letter of, to Archduke Charles,421;reply to the same,422;return of, to Paris,426;return of, from Egypt,429.Bouillé (Marquis de), plans and executes the escape of the royal family,196;attempt of, to rescue the king,209;letter of, to the Assembly,222.Bourrienne, statement of, in regard to the mob of 20th of June,260.Bread, scarcity of,152.Brézé, his attempt to enforce orders of the king,99;receives orders not to neglect the Assembly,100.Brienne (Archbishop), succeeds Calonne,67;his measure for the preservation of the national credit,68;dissolves the Assembly of Notables,68;his fall,68;his perplexity,73;determines to break down Parliament,73;his plan,73;desires Necker to take controllership of finances,76;resigns and goes to Italy,77.Brissot (Mons.), speech of, against the king,270.Broglie (Marshal) commands in Versailles,103;letter of, to Prince of Condé,111.Brunswick (Duke of), proclamation of the,279.Burke (Edmund), "Reflections" by,187;his speech on the imprisonment of La Fayette,298.Buzot, death of,362.Cæsar, subjugation of Gaul by,17.Calonne, his appointment as minister of finance,65;his measures, popularity, and success,65;recommends an assembly of notables,66;his banishment from office,67.Camille Desmoulins. SeeDesmoulins.Campan (Madame), her account of the queen's troubles,72;statement of, concerning the king,238.Capetian dynasty, extent of the,24.Carlovingian dynasty (the),20;end of the,24.Carlyle, statement of,402.Carmelites, butchery at the,302.Carnot, energy of, in organizing armies,341;purity of,420;banishment of,424.Carrier, horrible brutality of,342.Catalan (Monsieur), imprisonment of, in the Bastille,56.Catherine (of Russia), letter of, to Leopold,245.Catholics incited by the ecclesiastics against the Protestants,174.Cécile Regnault arrested on suspicion of being an assassin,376.Champagne (Count of), generosity of the,23.Champs de Mai, change of the name of Champs de Mars to,20.Champs de Mars, meetings on the,19.Charette, arrest and execution of,413.Charlemagne, policy of the government of,20;Christianity during the reign of,21.Charles X. SeeD'Artois.Charles Martel, power and death of,20.Charlotte Corday, character of,337;assassinates Marat,338;execution of,339.Chateauroux (Duchess of), death of,39.Chatelet, convicts of, driven into cells by the people,115.Choiseul (Duke de), boldness of,205.Christianity, corruptions of the Catholic Church imputed to,47;confounded with its corruptions,47;the corner-stone of democracy,48;two classes of assailants,49;decrees advocating the existence of the Supreme Being,375;state of, during Charlemagne's reign,21;renunciation of,360.See alsoSupreme Being.Church, decrepitude of the, invites attack,48;its protection of vice in high places,48;the, deprived of its property by the vote of the Assembly,170;members of the, deprived of their position for refusing to take the oath,191;the, affected by the Constitution,242.Cispadane Republic, the first Assembly of the,417.Citizens of Paris placed under surveillance,296.Citizens' Guard organized,116.See alsoGuard.Clergy, their opposition to Calonne's measures,67;character of the,23;endeavor of the, to use religion against the Revolution,173;vast wealth of the,170.Clermont, danger of the king at,200.Clery, his faithful devotion to the royal family,313;shrewd expedient of, to ascertain news,314.Clovis, character of, illustrated,18;the reign of,19.Coblentz, preparations for war at,241.Cockade of the Revolution chosen,117;accepted by Louis XVI.,130;the queen's idea of its meaning,132;the tricolor, the uniform of France,138.Committee of Public Safety, establishment of the,361.Commune of Paris, efforts of the, to break up the conspiracy of the Royalists,295."Compte Rendu au Roi," effect of the publication of,63.Condorcet, death of,362.Conspiracy of nobles to overturn Assembly,102.Constitution, assent of the king to the,232;notice of the, by the European powers,240;accepted by the king,175;and Bill of Rights,145;a new Jacobin, enacted,337;proclamation of the,233;presentation of the, to the king,231;formation of, by the Assembly,230.Constitutional party, cause of the decline of the,268.Convention (National), the, declares war against England,331;liberal laws enacted by the,358;attack on the, by Henriot,384;stormy meeting at the, between the Jacobins and Thermidorians,393;decrees of, against the insurrection,400;session of the,409;remarks of Thiers on the,410;elections for the,408;spirit of the,409.Corn-dealers, attack upon the,134.Council (of the Ancients), formation of the,403;(of Five Hundred), the,403.Count d'Artois (Charles X.) placed in command of an army from England,412;letter of Napoleon to,421;his reply,422.Court, extravagance of the,49;haste of, to leave Versailles,58;more feared by the people than the Parliament,71;the, driven to the importation of Swiss troops,104;how affected by capture of the Bastille,123;employs emissaries to buy up and destroy the bread,152;its plans,156;exultation of, at the arrival of the Flanders regiment,157;the, prosecutes Mirabeau and the Duke of Orleans,188.Courtiers' reasons for unbelief,49.Credit, public, condition of, in France at this time,65.Crown, policy of the officers of the, in keeping the nobles poor,46;salary of the, fixed,177.Currency, recoining of the,35.D'Agoust (Captain) turns the Parliament of Paris into the street,75.D'Aguillon (Duke), services of the,139.D'Artois (Count), accused of adultery with the queen,72.D'Aumont (Duke), defense of, by La Fayette,211.D'Espréménil obtains the edict establishing the courts,73;discovers Brienne's plan to the Parliament,74.D'Estaing (Admiral), commander of the National Guards of Versailles,156;letter of, to Marie Antoinette,157.Danton appointed minister of justice,290;remarkable prediction of, to Louis Philippe,307;arrested and executed,366.Dauphin, imprisonment of the,351;death of the,412.De Launey, conduct of, at the storming of the Bastille,119;attempts to blow up the Bastille,121;death of,122.De Tocqueville, his reasons for the bad odor of Christianity,48;explanation of, concerningthe blindness of the ruling classes to their danger,49.Death, how regarded by revolutionary writers,47.Debts of France at the death of Louis XIV.,35.Decisions (judicial), bought and sold,49.Declaration of Louis XVI. of the object of his leaving Paris,221.Decree establishing the courts a perfect failure,75,76.Deséze, appeal of, for the king,324.Desmoulins (Camille), incites to rebellion,108;his oratory,149;speech of, on the ten dollar decree,172;interview of, with La Fayette,213;remorse of, on the condemnation of the Girondists,354;letter of, to his wife,368;terror of, at the prospect of death,371;execution of,372.Desmoulins (Lucile), letter of, to Robespierre,368;heroism and condemnation of,371;execution of,373.Desodoards, his description of the state of Paris,358.Despotism of the Court more oppressive than that of the Parliament,71.Dessault, his "crime" and sufferings,55;years of, in prison,56.Diamond Necklace, the,72.Diderot, his connection with the "Encyclopedia,"48;commences by attacking Christianity,48;imprisonment of,48.Directory, formation of the,411;Napoleon's agency in supporting the,413;message of the,419;the two parties in the,420.Drouet discovers the king,200;arrests the royal family at Varennes,201.Dubois, character of,36.Duke of Orleans regent,34;character of the regency,35;death of the,36;insult of, at the Tuileries,240.Dumont, description of affairs by,114;account of Mirabeau's influence,149.Dumouriez, interview of, with the queen,247;entreats the king to sanction the decree of the Assembly,253;his traitorous surrender of fortresses to the Austrians,333;retires to Switzerland,334.Ecclesiastics superseded in office for refusing the oath,191.Edgeworth (Monsieur), visits the king at the Temple,325.Edict of Nantes, proclamation of, by Henry IV.,31;revocation of, by Louis XIV.,31.Edicts issued against Protestants by Louis XIV.,29.Education removes the superiority of the hereditary nobility,46.Electors of Paris solicit the organization of Citizens' Guard,112;deputation of,115;by their acts become a new government,117.Elizabeth (Madame, sister of the queen), execution of,351.England, war declared against, by the National Convention,331;determination of, to crush the Republic,396;energy of, in prosecuting the war against France,402;expedition from, to rouse the Royalists,411;her price for peace,418.Enthusiasm in France awakened by American Revolution,60.Equality, universal, origin of inquiry into,47.Etiquette, want of, on the part of the Assembly toward the king,238.Europe, reply of the powers of, to the French Constitution,240.Executions, rapid increase of,377.Extravagance of Court, effect of, on nation,49.Famine in Paris,398.Fanaticism excited by the ecclesiastics,174.Fauchet (Abbé), sermon of,144.Favorites of the king accustomed to obtain blank and sealedlettres de cachet,53.Favrus (Marquis of), accused of attempt to assassinate La Fayette and Bailly,175;trial and sentence of,179.Fersen (Count), aids the royal family in their flight,199.Feudal system, rise of the, from the remains of Charlemagne's empire,22;period of the,24;state of society to which it is adapted,46;like darkness before light, is dispersed by popular intelligence,46;its decline,46;privileges of the, surrendered,140.Field of Mars, assemblage of the people at the,301.Flesselles (Mayor), cheats the people,118;death of,122.Fleurus, battle of,391.Food, want of, begins to be felt,133.Foulon, account of,135;death of,136.Fouquier Tinville, fall of,391.