Nobles obliged to unite with the king, and to promise to submit to all the taxes,90;abandonment of their chateaux for a metropolitan residence,45;income of, in province of Limousin, according to Turgot,45;position of the, in the days of feudal grandeur,46;now hated by the peasants,46;all taxation steadily opposed by the,65-68;every where resist the decree of Brienne,75;their plan for managing the States-General,84;exult in their supposed victory,100;forty-seven join the National Assembly,101;obstruct the action of the Assembly,105;plan of, to regain their ascendency,141.Normandy, revolt in,24.Notables (Assembly of), recommended by Calonne,66;the meeting,67;meeting of, called to settle questions about the States-General,78.Oath of fidelity taken,184.Orleans (Duke of), enters his protest in Parliament against the king's commands,70;banished by the king,70;contemplates usurpation,71;joins the National Assembly,101.Orleans, massacre of the Royalists of,308.Oubliettes, description of,55.Paine (Thomas), one of the Jacobins,224.Papacy the right arm of monarchy,48.Parc aux Cerfs, institution of,40.Paris, from what it sprung,19;state of, on July 12, 1789,111;garrisoned by the people,124;municipal government of, arrogates supreme power,145;events at, on the king's escape,209;a new mayor of, chosen,243;mob in, on the 9th of August, 1792,281;arrest of the Royalists of,300;festival in, to celebrate the Jacobin Constitution,339;famine in,398.Parliament asserts that it has no power to register decrees,68;custom of, to register king's decrees,68;passes resolution concerning States-General,69;its desire to obtain feudal privileges,73;forced to surrender D'Espréménil and De Monsabert,74;meets and declares its session permanent,74;method of the, in receiving the king's commissioners,76;its condemnation of La Fayette,298;of the provinces abolished,172.Parties, number of, in France,190.Patronage of men of letters by nobility, nature of,46.Paupers, numbers of,169.Peasants, their hatred of the nobility and crowd,46;call them "vultures,"46;their fear of tax-collectors,50;their difficulties,52."Pensées Philosophiques" burned by execution,48.People side with the Parliament,71;support their enemies, the Parliaments,73;enjoined to send in account of grievances to the States-General,79;condition of the,83;send in requests to the Assembly,105;bear the busts of Necker and Orleans in triumph,109;sack the convents for wine and wheat,115;arm and garrison the Bastille,123;escort the king to the palace,125;of Paris desire the king to visit them,129;becoming soldiers from fear of invasion,142;demand of the, that the king shall go to Paris,162;influence of the king's appearance upon the,207;enthusiasm of the, at the reading of the Constitution,234.Pepin ascends the throne,20.Persecution of Protestants renewed,37;the argument of the Church,48.Pétion chosen Mayor of Paris,244;dilatory conduct of, in the mob of 20th of June,259;his dismissal from the Tuileries,262;petitions the Assembly for the dethronement of the king,280;found dead in the forest,362.Pharamond, chief of the Franks,18;obtains supremacy over Gaul,18.Philip (the Fair) establishes his Parliament in Paris,24.Philip VI. crowned at Rheims,25;luxury of the court of,25.Philosophy, of the writers on,47;of Revolutionary writers, results of,47.Pichegru appointed commander of the Parisian forces,401.Piety, its rarity forms an admirable foil to show up the corruption surrounding,48.Pitt (William), his approval of Burke's book,187;statement of, to the French envoy,240;his opinion of La Fayette,298.Political economy simplified for the masses,47.Politics superior in influence to religion over Louis XV.,49.Pompadour (Madame de), character of,39;death of,43.Popular sovereignty, when legitimated in France,62.Poverty of nobles in every thing but pride,45.Power of France in the hands of nobility,64;aid of foreign, to the noblesse,196.Priests, attempts of, to rouse the populace,177.Prisons, for what purposes used by Jesuits,55;number of, in Paris,55;terrible suffering in the,359.Privileged class, number of, in France during the reign of Louis XV.,45;dissatisfied with Turgot's measures,60;calculation of numerical strength of,64.Privileges (feudal). SeeFeudal.Protestants, persecution of, by Louis XIV.,29;number of, in France,30;"dragooned into Catholic faith,"30;escape of, from France,32;persecution of, renewed,37.Province of Vendée, religious troubles in,243.SeeLa Vendée.Provinces, France divided into,171.Provincial Parliaments, formation of, recommended by Necker,63.See alsoParliament.Prussia, desire of, to withdraw from the coalition,396.Public credit, condition of, in France now,65.Rastadt, assassination of the embassadors at,428.Rebellion, people incited to, by Camille Desmoulins,108."Reflections," by Edmund Burke,187.Reform, few of the nobility in favor of,79.Reign of Terror, France surrendered to the,345;more endurable than the old dominion,402.Religion, how represented by Revolutionary writers,47;becomes the policy of the nobles,170;the aid of, brought to bear, by the clergy,173.See alsoChristianity.Renville (Constant de), confinement of, in the Bastille,53.Republicans, increase of the,246.Revolution, its outbreak and failure explained,46;list of the victims of the,379.Revolutionary Tribunal, origin of the,296;trial of the king before the,322.Richelieu (Cardinal), his character and influence as a politician,27;his death,27;cruelty of, to Dessault,55;iron-hearted firmness of,56.Riot, description of the first,82;fomented to prevent meeting of the States-General,82.Robespierre (Maximilian), first appearance of,88;desires to abolish the death penalty,173;demands an act of accusation against the Girondists,336;turns against Danton and Desmoulins,365;speech of, against Danton,367;inexplicable character of,375;decrees of, in favor of the existence of the Supreme Being,375;supposed attempt to assassinate,396;dawning opposition to,377;urged to assume the dictatorship,378;defeat of, in the Convention,380;arrest of, with his brother,383;assassination and rearrest of,386;condemnation of,387;execution of,388.Roederer (Monsieur), interview of, with the royal family,284.Rohan (Cardinal), involved with Comtesse Lamotte,72.Roland (Monsieur), dismissal of, from the office of minister of the interior,254;death of,363.Roland (Madame), her letter to the king,254;anecdote concerning,309;death of,363.Rollo, an incident related of,23.Roman empire, decline of the,17.Romeuf (M. de), arrest of the king by,208.Rousseau employs his eloquence for Revolution,47.Royal decree, customs regarding it,68.Royal family, flight of the,198;their mode of life in the Temple,311.See alsoLouis XVI.andMarie Antoinette.Sabbath, attempts to obliterate the,361.Salt, duty on, abolished,172.Santerre appointed to the command of the National Guard,296.Sausse (Madame), answer of, to the applications of the queen,206.Schools established by Charlemagne,21.Sermon of the Bishop of Nancy,86;of Abbé Fauchet,144.Sheriff obliged to have a guard,50.Sièyes (Abbé), his pamphlet,78;his motion in the States-General,89;its success,90;second pamphlet of,90.Societies, the jealousy with which they were regarded,46.Society, state of, during the reign of Louis XIV.,28;state of, at the death of Louis XIV.,33.Soldiers, brutal conduct of,30;become discontented,103;coalesce with the people,103;arrested for their oath,104;scatter the first mob,109;a loyal regiment from Flanders ordered to Paris,157.Sombrueil, governor of Hôtel des Invalides, character of,119.Spain, treaty of France with,396.Speech of Marat to the Jacobin Club,215.St. Etienne, curate of, heads the people,119.St. Huruge, account of him,150.States-General convened for May,76;debates which arose upon the summoning of,78;representation in, how to be determined,79;equal representation in, decreed by the king,79;the people enjoined to send in account of their grievances to the,79;number of members of,81;convened,83;delegates to, received by the king,83;opening of the,85,86;boldness of the third estate,87;Necker's reception at the,87;attempt of, to ensnare the third estate,87;the conflict in the,88.See alsoAssemblyandConvention.Supreme Being, decrees in favor of the,375;festival in honor of the,376.Suspected persons, schedule of those liable to arrest,344.Suspensive veto, the, approved,151.Swiss, the, refuse to fire upon their comrades,110.Talleyrand, his remark concerning the diamond necklace,72.Tallien, speech of, against Robespierre,381.Talma, incident connected with the marriage of,178.Taxation so universal that the inventor of a new one was regarded as a man of genius,49;the burden of, fell upon unprivileged classes solely,49;artifices used by the peasants to elude,50;proportion of land owned by the payers of,50;expedients of the collector of, to obtain the,50;burden of, computed,51;equality of, when nobles would permit it,98.Temple, description of the,293.Tennis-court, celebration of the meeting at,255.Texel, capture of the fleet at,395.Theatre, Jacobin riot in the,239.Thermidorians, origin of the,379;supremacy of the,389.Thiers, remarks of, on the National Convention,410.Third estate triumphant,101.Thouret (Monsieur), presents Constitution to the king,231.Thuriot (Monsieur), summons Bastille to surrender,120.Title-deeds destroyed by the peasantry,143.Titles of noble blood sold,50.Tollendal, Lally, speech of,126.Toulon surrendered to the Allies,341.Tree of feudalism, burning of the,275.Trials ordered to be public,172.Tribune, a military, advised by Marat,215.Tricolor worn by the king,132.Tuileries besieged,286.Turgot (Monsieur), his appointment and career as minister of finance,59,60;his measures, how accepted,60.Unbelief among the courtiers, reasons for,49.United States, Revolution of, compared with that of France,46.Valmy, battle of,306.Valois, history of the house of,26.Varennes (the), king and royal family arrived at,201;municipality of, request the king towait,205.Vaublanc (M. de), speech of, to the king,244.Vergniaud (Monsieur), charges of, against the king,269;prophetic solicitude of,309;sentences the king to death,323;spirit of the Girondists avowed by,332;remark of, in the prison to the son of M. Alluaud,354.Versailles, chateau of, commenced by Richelieu,27;palace of,35.Veto, struggle on the part of the nobility to make it absolute,149.Vice protected by the Church,48.Victims, list of the, of the Revolution,379.Vienne, Archbishop of, president of National Assembly,106.Vincennes, brilliant festivities and spectacles at,25.Voltaire applies his force to assailing the corruption of the Church,47;unfairness of his criticisms on Christianity,47;befriended by Frederick II. of Prussia,49;revisits Paris,62;his reception,62;his death,62;removed to the Pantheon in Paris,222.Voting for the deputies in Paris,79.Wars, why waged by princes,51.Women of Paris, their march to Versailles,159;deputation of, to the king,160.Writers, revolutionary, views of, on religion,47;their influence in brutalizing the people,47;the leading, were infidels,47.Xavier (Louis Stanislas), letter of the king to,242.