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  ‘active’ citizens, 147, 153

  Adélaïde, Daughter of France, 119

  Aiguillon, Armand, Duc d’, 42, 94

  Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 29, 205

  Aligre, Étienne d’, 38, 305

  Amar, J. A. B., 229, 242, 305

  Ancients, Council of, 282, 297, 298, 299, 302

  army, its state in 1792, 145; conscription, 216; purges demanded, 168, 215; mood of, 295

  Artois, Charles, Comte d’, later King Charles X (1757–1836), 162; personality, 25, 305; and Third Estate, 60; at séance royale, 61, 62; flees abroad, 89; his colour, 90; counter-revolutionary, 117; advocates war, 143; later life, 305

  Assembly of Notables, 38, 39, 44

  Auch, Martin d’, 60

  Augeard, 95, 305

  Augereau, Pierre-François, 297, 305

  Austria, Declaration of Pillnitz, 143; France at war with, 145, 202; battle of Jemappes, 193; battle of Fleurus, 257; defeated, and Treaty of Campo-Formio, 296

  Ayen, Duchesse d’, 247

  Azéma, Michel, 159

  Babeuf, François-Noel, called Gracchus Babeuf (1760–97), 293–4

  Bailly, Jean-Sylvain (1736–93), and Estates General debates, 53, 58; and National Assembly, 60; seeks admission to séance royale, 60; supports Mirabeau, 62; on enthusiasm in Paris, 87, 89; Mayor of Paris, 88; on popularity of Louis XVI, 91; on state of anarchy, 92; confronts mob at Tuileries, 118; and flight of royal family, 124; monarchien, 133; and Champ de Mars massacre, 135; ultimate fate, 135, 142; execution, 224–5

  bals des victimes, 274

  Barbaroux, Charles, 141–2, 200, 306

  Barentin, Charles de, 40, 51, 52, 61, 306

  Barère, Bertrand (1755–1841), 90, 271, 272, 274, 306

  Barnave, Antoine (1761–93), demands recall of Necker, 88; apologist for murder, 93; and return of royal family to Paris, 128, 129; and Queen, 133; execution, 142, 225

  Barras, Paul-François, Vicomte de (1755–1829), Terror at Toulon, 227; on fear of Robespierre, 254; and Robespierre, 258, 266; takes military command, 265; becomes reactionary, 271; and insurrection of Lepeletier sectionnaires, 284; and Bonaparte, 285; and journées of Vendémiaire, 286, 287; unrespected Director, 291; and ‘Conspiracy of Equals’, 294; and coup d’état of 18 Fructidor, 295; and Josephine de Beauharnais, 295; and Ducos, 299; and coup d’état of Brumaire, 302; resigns from Directory, 302; later life, 306

  Barthélemy, François, 297, 306

  Bas, Laurent, 213, 214

  Bastille, conditions in, 71; prisoners, 72; governor of, 72–3; preparations against attack, 73; guns withdrawn, 74; storming of, 75–80; vainqueurs, 82–3; sightseers and souvenirs, 83; Brissot in, 137

  Bayon, Captain, 125, 126–7

  Belgium, 193, 257

  Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste, 299, 302, 306

  Besenval, Baron de, 69, 70, 306

  Billaud-Varenne, Jean-Nicolas (1756–1819), encourages septembriseurs, 176; on Committee of Public Safety, 217; attacks Dantonists, 235; deserts Hébertists, 235; and Danton, 236, 241; and Fabre d’Églantine, 243; and Robespierre, 254, 257, 260–61; expelled from Jacobin Club, 262; attacks Jacobins, 262; urges attack, 265; loses office, 271; brought to trial, 272; transportation, 274; later life and death, 306

  Biron, Armand-Louis, Duc de, 145, 215

  Blaikie, Thomas, 105

  Boissy d’Anglas, François-Antoine, 276, 282, 306–7

  Bon, Joseph le, 228

  Bonaparte, Josephine, later Empress Josephine (1763–1814), 295, 301, 312

  Bonaparte, Lucien (1775–1840), 300, 302, 304, 307

  Bonaparte, Napoleon, later Emperor Napoleon I (1769–1821), Concordat with Papacy, 112; career and opinions, 285; appearance, 285; and journées of Vendémiaire, 286, 287; and Josephine, 295, 301; Commander-in-Chief in Italy, 295; Italian campaign, 296; loot, 296; his independence, 296–7; and Augerau, 297; and Egyptian campaign, 298; hero’s welcome in Paris, 300; character, 301; and coup d’état of Brumaire, 301, 302, 303–4; disastrous address to Five Hundred, 303; First Consul and Emperor, 304

  Bordeaux, 34, 194, 228–9, 277

  Bouillé, François-Claude, Marquis de, 121, 122, 127

  Bourdon, Léonard, 265, 307

  Bourienne, Fauvelet de, 303, 307

  bread riots, 63, 91, 92, 96–7, 274; march of market women, 97–100, 101, 104–5; the ‘baker’, 105; 1789 harvest, 109; 1793 shortage, 216; rationed, 273; march of 12 Germinal, 274; ration reduced, 283, 292

  Breteuil, Louis-Charles, Baron de, 64, 87, 88, 307

  Brienne, Loménie de, Archbishop of Toulouse, 38, 39–40, 307

  Brissot, Jacques Pierre (1754–93), 141; history, 136–7; advocates war, 138; pleads for King’s life, 184; and Robespierre, 210; condemned to death, 222; sent to l’Abbaye, 223

  Brittany, Young on conditions in, 30; riots, 40, 194; members of Third Estate, 50; tactics by delegates from, 93; Bretons and Angevins, 112; émigré forces land in, 281

  Broglie, Victor-François, Duc de, 89, 308

  Brunswick Manifesto, 153

  Buzot, François, 136, 224, 308

  calendar, new, 231

  Calonne, Charles-Alexandre de (1734–1802), 37–9, 308

  Cambon, Pierre Joseph, 260, 308

  Campan, Madame, 149, 155

  Campo-Formio, Treaty of, 296, 298

  Camus, Armand Gaston, 112

  Carichon, Abbé, 247–8

  Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881), 223

  Carnot, Lazare (1753–1823), on Committee of Public Safety, 215, 216; organizer of Revolution’s victory, 215–16; and Danton’s arrest, 238; and Robespierre, 254, 257, 260; and Saint-Just, 261; and Lescot-Fleuriot, 264; loses office, 271; spared, 279; Director, 291; and ‘Conspiracy of Equals’, 294; and royalist campaign, 295; flees abroad, 297; later life, 308

  Carrier, Jean Baptiste, 228, 272

  Cazalès, Jacques de, 49, 308

  Chabot, François, 158, 308

  Champ de Mars, troops encamped on, 70; massacre of, 134–5; 14 July celebrations of 1792, 151–2; mob demands King’s abdication, 154; Bailly’s humiliation at, 224–5; Festival of Supreme Being, 253

  Charles X, King, see Artois, Comte de

  Chartres, Duc de, later King Louis Philippe (1773–1850), 178, 194, 308

  Chaumette, Pierre-Gaspard (1763–94), 230, 231, 244

  Choiseul, Étienne-François, Duc de (1719–85), 122–3, 128, 308–9

  Chouans, 281, 283, 285

  Church, the, riches and power of, 30–31; abolition of tithes, 95; estates nationalized, 109–10, 137; Civil constitution of the Clergy, 111; divided over schism with Rome, 111–12; anti-clericalism in Paris, 117–18, 230; de-Christianization campaign, 230–33; reaction against de-Christianization, 233; Robespierre attacks atheism, 251; Louis XVIII’s promise to, 281

  clergy, l
andowners, 30; and taxation, 40; and Estates General, 40, 45; and Third Estate, 53–5, 59; and National Assembly, 62; Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 111–12, 115; and Legislative Assembly, 136, 145; non-juring priests, 138; campaigns against refractory priests, 146, 151, 168; September Massacres, 170; in National Convention, 180; deportation of priests, 194; celibacy denounced, 230; attitude to new calendar, 231; and de-Christianization programme, 233; percentage of victims of guillotine, 248; transportation of priests, 297–8; oath of hatred, 298

  Clermont-Tonerre, Duc de, 49, 109, 309

  Cléry, Jean-Baptiste, 182–3, 186, 189, 309

  Club du Manège, 300

  Coffinhal, Pierre, 266, 309

  Collot d’Herbois, Jean-Marie (1749–96), on Committee of Public Safety, 217; Terror at Lyons, 227; attacks Dantonists, 235; deserts Hébertists, 235; and Danton, 241; and Robespierre, 254, 260; expelled from Jacobin Club, 261; and Saint-Just, 261–2; and Lescot-Fleuriot, 264; loses office, 271; brought to trial, 272; transported, 274; death of, 309

  comités de surveillance, 194

  Commission of Twelve, 198, 199

  Committee of Clemency, 235

  Committee of General Security, and trial of Danton, 237, 242; and Robespierre, 257, 258, 259, 260; National Guard refused entry to, 263–4

  Committee of Public Safety, authority of, 195; seizes Roland’s papers, 195; and Girondins, 199; attempts to subdue uprisings, 202; and Danton, 203, 214, 237; and Robespierre, 203, 211, 254, 257, 258, 259, 260, 266; meets demands of Enragés, 214; takes increasingly zealous measures, 215; decrees levée en masse, 215; and Terror, 225; recalls agents to Paris, 233; and Hébertists, 235–6; and Indulgents, 236; Saint-Just and Danton’s trial, 242; law of 22 Priarial, 245; and centralization of revolutionary justice, 246; spies, 255; proposed distribution of confiscated estates, 256; Robespierrists in, 267; reduced powers of, 271

  Committee of Thirty, 42

  Commune of Paris, formation of, 91; and National Guardsmen, 153; disbanded, 154; and September Massacres, 176, 178; Girondins attempt to overthrow, 198; and Robespierrists, 237, 263, 264; purge, 271; rioters demand re-establishment of, 276

  Compagnie du Soleil, 272

  Conciergerie, 173, 221, 223, 267

  Condé, Prince de, 281

 

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