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by William Doyle


  ‘Flour War’ of 1775 21, 62

  fodder crops 10

  Fontenay 232

  food shortages 109, 113, 181–2, 231, 245, 288, 291, 294, 320, 323

  forced loans 266, 292, 353, 373, 374, 386

  Forster, Georg (1754–94) 199, 201, 218

  Fouché, Joseph (1759–1820) 254, 259–60, 279, 279, 374, 376, 385, 389

  Foulon, Joseph François (1715–89) 112, 396

  foundlings 16

  Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine Quentin (1746–95) 270, 275, 283, 294

  Fox, Charles James (1749–1806) 161, 212, 236

  Franche Comté 8, 93, 115

  franchisement 124, 155, 170, 337

  Francis I (1494–1547) 34

  Francis II, Emperor (1768–1835) 180, 188, 201, 206, 211, 306, 316, 341, 349, 352, 381, 422

  Frankfurt 197, 201

  Franklin, Benjamin (1706–90) 63–4, 65

  fraternity 199, 208, 421

  Frederick the Great, king of Prussia (1712–86) 31, 416

  Frederick William II, king of Prussia (1744–97) 164, 188, 193, 198, 208

  free trade 58, 69, 76, 87

  freedom of thought 119, 420

  Freemasonry 15, 25, 64–5, 218–19, 400

  French Guards 98, 107, 108, 110, 126

  French language 44

  Fréron, Louis Marie Stanislas (1754–1802) 255, 284, 288, 292

  Fréteau, Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe (1745–94) 80, 100

  Friends of Liberty 238

  Friends of the Constitution 166

  Froment, François (1756–1825) 301, 306

  gabelle (salt tax) 4, 27, 335

  Gallican Church 389, 390, 398

  Gard 182–3, 293, 306, 317, 412

  Garonne 6, 243

  Gascony 6

  Gdansk 198, 201

  General Assembly (Church) 33

  generalities 2

  Geneva 161, 356, 412, 415

  Genoa 363, 369, 415

  Gensonné, Armand (1758–93) 178, 188, 238, 240

  Gentz, Friedrich (1764–1832) 170, 424

  George III king (1738–1820) 213, 215, 381, 382, 393

  Germany 156, 170–1, 177, 197–8, 339, 369, 416

  gerrymandering 247, 371–2, 373

  Gilded Youth (anti-sansculotte vigilantes) 284, 292, 294

  Girondins 188, 191, 193, 223, 243, 408 clemency for king appeal 221–2

  escape to Brittany 241

  executions 253

  fraternity to foreign sympathizers 208

  impeachment of Marat 228

  journals attacked 227

  king’s fate 194, 195

  price controls 229

  reinstatement of 286, 292

  under suspicion 227

  Gobel, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1727–94) 261, 271

  ‘God Save the King’ anthem 170

  Goethe, Wolfgang (1749–1832) 160, 193

  Gohier, Louis-Jérôme (1746–1830) 370, 377

  Gouges, Olympe de (1748–93) 422

  Gracchi (Gracchus), Tiberius Sempronius (168–133 bc) 421

  grain 9–10, 206, 279, 287 riots 181–2

  shortages 162

  trade 21, 58, 69, 86, 109

  Granville 256, 310, 318

  Great Britain blamed by counter-revolutionaries 315

  blockade of French coast 405–6

  evacuation of French troops from Egypt 369, 383

  expelled from Toulon 206

  French invasion plan 333

  Jacobins in 212–3

  naval war with France 206–7

  parliamentary reform 166–9

  peace of Amiens 382–3

  reaction to the Revolution 161

  rescue of deportees 336

  on Saint-Domingue 414

  Spain 164–5

  support for Belgian peasant army 350

  support for counter-revolution 308, 310, 311, 312–3

  support for Philanthropic Institutes 329

  taxation 418

  trade 69, 87

  travel to the continent 393–4, 401–2

  war with France 200–1, 202, 203–4, 215–8, 249, 279, 339–40, 347–8, 374, 375, 382, 417

  ‘Great Fear’ 114

  Grégoire, Henri (1750–1831) 261, 336, 412, 413, 422

  Grenoble 239

  gros fermiers (tenant farmers) 10–11, 17

  Guadeloupe 212

  Guadet, Marguérite-Élite (1758–1814) 178, 188, 238, 240

  guerrilla resistance, see chouannerie

  Guiana 292, 336, 336, 385

  guilds (jurande) 19–20, 149, 357, 406

  guillotine 395 blunt blade 239

  Danton 275

  failed army officers 203

  first political victim 190

  first used 183

  Hébertists 270

  place de la Révolution 253, 276

  provinces 254, 255, 257

  Robespierrists 282

  Gustavus III, king of Sweden (1746–92) 171, 197

  Habeas Corpus 213

  Habsburgs 159, 381

  Hainault 115

  Haiti, Republic of 415, see also Saint–Domingue

  Hanriot, François (1761–94) 234, 235, 247, 252, 281

  Hardy, Thomas (1752–1832) 170, 212

  harvest failures 10, 12, 323, 403 consumer demand and 13

  free internal market 58

  hail storm 84

  poverty and 14

  riots 21–2

  Hasselt 351

  Haute Garonne 183

  Hébert, Jacques-René (1757–94) 227, 233, 236, 249, 251, 252, 267, 268, 269, 270, 274, 275, 276, 281, 282

  Hébertists 268–70, 274, 275, 276, 277

  Helvetic Republic 339, 356–7, 375

  Henriot (saltpetre manufacturer) 98

  Hérault 239

  Herder, Johann-Gottfried (1744–1803) 44, 160

  hoarding 21, 35, 98, 109, 182, 223, 228, 245 cash 405

  death penalty for 250, 251, 265

  law against 246

  Hoche, Lazare (1768–97) 215–6, 290, 313, 314, 315–6, 328, 331, 333, 342, 352

  Hölderin, Friedrich (1770–1843) 160

  homeless 16

  Hondschoote, battle of (1793) 204

  Hood, Samuel (1735–1816) 249, 254–5, 310

  hospitals 15, 402

  hot-air balloons 65

  Houchard, General (d. 1793) 203

  Huguenot refugees 45 humanism 49

  Humbert, Joseph Amable (1767–1823) 343, 369

  Hungary 159, 164, 211, 418

  hunting rights 116

  iconoclasm 260–1

  imports of books 46–7

  Indies Company 268, 269, 273

  Indulgents 268–9, 273–5

  industrial action 20, 149

  industry 8, 12–13, 28, 101, 351

  inflation 320, 323, 402, 404–5

  insurrectionary committee 234–5

  intelligence-gathering 311–12, 327, 328

  intelligentsia 394–5, 396, 426

  intendants 40, 61, 68, 72, 112, 125, 242

  interest rates 405

  Invalides 110

  investments 25, 402, 407

  Ionian Islands 217

  Ireland 158, 212, 213, 216, 342–4, 367, 382, 416, 418

  iron deposits 8

  Islam 388

  Isnard, Maximin (1755–1825) 177, 233, 292

  Italy 160, 217, 369, 416 Austria 376

  Bonaparte in 213–15, 331, 339, 357–62, 367, 381

  Joubert’s death in 374

  nationalism 419

  peasants 360, 366, 367–8

  Jacobins 234, 323 after Floréal purge 373, 374, 375

  anti-religious activities 262

  in Austria 211

  back in modest favour 336

  Bonaparte’s denunciation of 385

  Brumaire coup and 376–7, 385

  calls for king’s trial 153

  closure of 285–6

  conspiracy of Equals 325–7, 32
8, 331, 423

  encouraging demonstrations 148

  in England 212–13

  exchanges with English societies 170

  formation of 142

  Hébertists and 268, 269

  Italian 358–9, 359–61, 362, 363, 364, 365, 418

  Manège Club 373, 374

  in Naples 218, 365, 366

  openly republican 188

  Polish 207–8

  public sessions 175–6, 178

  reviving fortunes of 325–6

  revolt against southern 230–1, 235, 239–40, 242

  Robespierre and 151, 279, 281

  split 154

  spontaneous proliferation of clubs 395

  Terror 250

  Thermidorians and 284–5

  Toulon 239–40

  Jansenism 54, 56

  Javogues, Claude (1759–96) 264, 269

  Jeanbon Saint-André, André (1749–1813) 206, 247

  Jemappes, battle of (1792) 197

  Jersey 256

  Jesuits 35, 37, 48, 54, 56

  Jews 9, 24, 368, 412

  Joly de Fleury, Jean François (1718–1802) 67

  Joseph II, Emperor of Austria (1741–99) 60, 159, 161, 162, 163, 164, 211, 299, 352, 358

  Joubert, Barthélemy (1769–99) 347, 373, 374, 376

  Jourdan, Jean-Baptiste (1762–1833) 204, 341, 350, 369, 373, 375, 376, 386

  Jourdan Law 341, 350, 373, 386

  journal subscription 47

  journalism 45–6, 54, 89, 103–4, 120, 250, 310 Cordeliers 269

  economy 324

  freedom of the press 155

  Jacobin 236, 324–5

  Thermidor 284, 285, 288

  journeymen 19–20

  Joyous Entry 162, 163

  judiciary 25, 36–40, 55–6, 82, 96, 101, 124, 276, see also magistrates

  Jullien, Marc Antoine (1775–1848) 255, 258, 264

  Jura 240

  Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804) 160

  Kellerman, Françoise Christophe (1735–1820) 192

  Kellgren, Johan Henrik (1735–1820) 160

  King’s Secretaries 28

  Kléber, Jean-Baptiste (d. 1800) 382

  Klopstock, Friedrich (1724–1803) 160

  Koblenz 147, 171, 303, 304, 306

  Kosciuszko, Tadeusz (1746–1817) 198, 207, 208, 211

  La Barre, Jean François, Chevalier de (1747–66) 55, 59

  La Harpe, Frédéric César (1754–1838) 355, 356

  La Mabilais, treaty of 291

  La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie (1753–1824) 322, 331, 336, 372, 374

  La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François, Duke de (1747–1827) 111

  La Rouërie, Armand Taffin, Marquis de (1751–93) 306

  Lacombe, Claire (b. 1765) 420

  Lafayette, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757–1834) 64, 70, 72, 74, 112, 176 defending Versailles 122, 126

  denunciation of radicals 185, 186

  dispersing anti-royal demonstrations 148, 155

  during grain riots 121

  surrender to Prussians 190

  tries to resign 113

  war with Prussia 177

  Lajaunye 291

  Lally-Tollendal, Trophime-Gérard de (1751–1830) 119, 311

  Lamballe, Marie-Thérèse Louise, Princess de (1749–92) 192

  Lameth brothers, Alexandre de (1760–1829) and Charles de (1757–1832) 120, 149, 150, 154, 155, 311

  Lamoignon, Chrétien François de (1735–1832) 73, 78, 82–3, 84, 85, 88, 93

  land 24, 421 common 325

  disposal of confiscated 266

  investment in 407

  sale of small lots 244

  tax (contribution foncière) 131

  landowners 62 attacks on 115

  Church 33, 132–3, 137

  gains made by the Revolution 409

  silver-mark 124

  Languedoc 2, 4, 6, 7, 55, 145, 294

  Lanjuinais, Jean-Denis (1753–1827) 240, 292

  Latin America 415

  Latin classical education 49

  law Civil Code 387, 391, 395, 409, 422

  enforcement of 36–40

  post-Revolutionary 386–7

  pre-Revolutionary 4

  rule of 118–19

  Law, John (1671–1729) 133, 404

  Law of 14 Frimaire 264, 267, 269

  Law of 22 Prairial 276, 277

  Law of Hostages 373–4, 384, 386

  Law of Suspects 251, 258, 276, 374

  Law of the General Maximum 264–5

  Law of the Maximum 286

  Laws of Ventôse 266, 270

  lawyers 95, 113, 410

  lazzaroni (Neopolitan poor) 365, 386, 149, 276, 405

  Le Chapelier, Isaac René Guy (1754–94) 105, 116, 149, 277, 407

  Le Havre 393

  Le Mans 256, 310, 376

  Le Mercier de la Rivière, Pierre Paul (1720–92) 57

  Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Louis Michel (1760–93) 222, 245, 368

  Leblanc de Castillon, Jean François André (d. 1719) 72

  Leclerc, Jean Théophile Victoire (b. 1771) 250

  left-wing politics 424

  Legendre, Louis (1752–97) 279, 285

  Legion of Honour 392, 411

  Legislative Assembly 150, 220, 401 anti-émigré attitude of 175–8, 305

  Country in Danger decree 187

  elections for the Convention 193

  king’s dethronement 188–9

  Polish resistance 198

  refractory priests 174–5, 184, 185

  Legislative Body 379, 411

  Leinster 343

  Leipzig 207

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (1870–1924) 424

  Leo X, Pope (1513–21) 34

  Leoben 214, 215, 217, 311, 317, 333, 362

  Leopold II, Emperor of Austria (1747–92) 156, 163–4, 165, 171, 177, 178, 179, 180, 199, 211, 302, 303, 358

  Letourneur, Louis François (1751–1817) 322, 330

  lettres de cachet 80, 83

  levée en masse 204–5, 207, 224, 232, 250, 271, 289, 307, 341, 373, 418

  liberty trees (Mays) 130, 186, 211, 278, 288, 351, 354, 360, 375, 420

  libraries 47

  Liège, principality of 161, 162, 164, 197

  Liguria 381

  Ligurian Republic 363–4

  Lindet, Robert (1746–1825) 248, 265, 324, 325, 326, 373

  Linguet, Simon Nicholas Henri (1736–94) 45

  Lisbon earthquake (1755) 52

  lit de justice session 37, 76–7, 82

  literacy 401

  literary societies 47, 91

  livestock farming 10, 12

  livres 182, 266, 324, 404

  livret 20

  loan edicts 78

  loans 67, 68, 69, 70, 75, 131 forced 266, 292, 353, 373, 374, 386

  Locke, John (1632–1704) 50

  Lombardy 213, 358–9, 360–1, 365, 381

  Loménie de Brienne, Étienne Charles, archbishop of Toulouse (1727–4) 35–6, 71, 74, 75, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 89, 90, 93

  London Corresponding Society 170

  Longwy, fall of (1792) 190, 191

  looting 113, 115, 411

  Lorient 5

  Lorraine 2, 4, 8, 10, 59

  Louis I, king of Etruria 382

  Louis XIV, king (1638–1715) 30, 35, 37, 42, 43, 44, 390

  Louis XV, king (1710–74) 38, 39, 42, 59

  Louis XVI, king (1754–93) 63 acceptance of the constitution 155, 157, 171

  accession 43, 58, 60

  bankruptcy 85

  Civil Constitution 141, 147

  confrontation with sansculottes 187

  consecration 1–2

  courtiers 28, 42

  deposed as king 194

  escape plans 148

  Estates-General 103

  at Feast of the Federation 128

  flight to Varennes 152–3, 302

  inertia 300

  Legistative Assembly 175, 176

  loans 70
, 73, 74, 76, 79–80

  National Assembly 105–6, 107–8, 111

  only visit to the sea 32

  parlement restoration 38

  purge of ministers 184–5

  taken from Versailles to Paris 122

  transfer to the Temple 189

  trial and execution 195–6, 200, 222

  war with Austria 179

  wearing cockade 112

  Louis XVII, king (1785–95) 202, 227, 249, 255, 291, 297, 308, 311, 315

  Louis XVIII, see Provence, Count de

  Louisiana 382

  Louvet, Jean Baptiste (1760–97) 221, 241, 292

  loyalism 212

  Lunéville, treaty of (1801) 381, 393, 416

  Luxembourg 351, 416

  luxury goods 23, 223, 231, 354, 404

  lynchings 120–1, 128, 154, 177, 182, 306 Foulon and Bertier 112–13, 396

  Naples 365

  during Terror 259

  White Terror 293

  Lyons 235, 247 counter-revolution 231, 234, 239, 249, 301

  electoral districts 126

  fall of 253–4

  growth 18

  industrial unrest 20

  silk industry 122, 13, 404, 406

  toll gates attacked 109

  White Terror 293

  Lyons plot 146–7

  Macdonald, Alexandre (1765–1840) 365

  Machecoul 243

  Maciejowcie, battle of (1793) 208

  Madrid 218

  magistrates 36, 38, 39–40, 46, 60, 61, 76, 77, 81–2, 116, 300

  Mainz 177, 197, 199, 202, 203, 247, 256

  Maistre, Joseph de (1753–1821) 424

  Malesherbes, Chrétien-Guillaume Lamoignon de (1721–94) 51–2

  Mallet du Pan, Jacques (1749–1800) 311, 312, 318, 328

  Malouet, Pierre Victor (1740–1814) 119, 155, 311, 328, 396

  Malta 339, 340, 382, 383

  Manège Club 373, 374

  manorial monopolies (banalités) 11, 17

  Mantua 213, 214, 215

  Marat, Jean-Paul (1743–93) 194, 248 call for direct action 120, 191

  cult of 261, 288, 368

  Girondins antagonism towards 221

  in hiding 154

  hounding Necker 134

  impeachment and acquittal of 228–9

  murder of 245

  Pantheon resting place 284

  solution to food scarcities 223

  Marengo, battle of (1800) 381, 388

  Maria Antoinette, queen (1755–93) 43, 154, 165, 175 counter-revolution 299, 303

  diamond necklace affair 60

  execution 253

  and Necker 102, 105, 108, 299

  secret ‘Austrian Committee’ 176–8

  trial 252

  Maria Carolina, queen of Naples (1753–1814) 219, 365

  Maria Theresia, Empress of Austria (1717–80) 44, 418

 

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