Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

by Ruth Scurr

  Delmas, Jean

  democracy

  democratic war

  Descartes, René

  Deshorties, Anais

  Desmoulins, Camille

  early censorship of

  early friendship with MR

  execution of Girondins and

  fall and execution of

  fall of monarchy and

  National Convention and

  Paris riots and

  Desmoulins, Lucile Horace

  Dickens, Charles

  dioceses, number reduced by National Assembly

  Dubois de Fosseux

  Duchesne, James

  Dumerbion, Pierre

  Dumont, Pierre Étienne Louis

  Dumouriez, Charles

  Duplay, Eléonore

  Duplay, Elisabeth

  Duplay, Maurice

  Duplay, Françoise-Eléonore

  Duplay family

  Dupond, M.

  Dutch Republic

  East India Company

  Edgeworth de Firmont, Henry Essex

  education issue

  Élisabeth, Mme (sister of Louis XVI)

  Eloge de la Rose (speech)

  Emery, Louis

  émigrés

  Émile (Rousseau)

  Enemies of the Fatherland Unmasked, The (pamphlet)

  “enemies of the people (or within),”

  enragés

  equality

  Estates General

  election chaos

  Louis XVI agrees to convene

  meetings of

  MR elected to

  opening ceremony

  third estate declares itself National Assembly

  Estates of Artois

  executive power

  executive veto

  Fabre d’Églantine, Philippe

  Fauchet, Claude

  federalist revolt

  federal republic idea

  Ferrières, Marquis de

  Festival of Federation

  Festival of the Supreme Being

  feudalism

  Feuillants Club

  Fillion, Didier

  Flesselles, Jacques

  Fleurus, battle of

  Fouché, Joseph

  Foulon, Jospeh François

  Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine

  France

  declares war on Holy Roman Emperor

  fall of monarchy (10 August 1792)

  monarchy

  monarchy abolished

  provisional government of

  Republic declared by National Convention

  Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Franklin, Benjamin

  freedom of press

  freedom of religion

  freedom of speech

  Freemasons

  French Academy of Sciences

  French army

  levee en masse and

  new federal

  French constitution of 1791 (consitutional monarchy)

  accepted by Louis XVI

  escape of royal family threatens

  fall of

  written

  French republican constitution of 1793

  suspended

  written and ratified

  French Revolution of 1789

  causes of

  complexity and vividness of

  Jacobins as guardians of

  Lafayette and Louis XVI and

  MR as embodiment of

  Fréron, Louis Marie Stanislaus

  Friends of Chalier

  Furet, François

  Galileo

  General Maximum Law (1793)

  general strike of 1793

  George III, king of England

  Gérard, François

  Gerle, Dom

  Girondins

  constitution and

  Danton and

  expelled from National Convention

  execution of

  Lyon revolt and

  Marat assassination and

  Paine and

  private property and

  trial of Louis XVI and

  Gobel, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph

  Goethe, Johan Wofgang von

  Gossec, François-Joseph

  Gouges, Olympe de

  Gouvon, Geneviève

  Gracchus (play)

  Gravier, Claude

  Great Britain

  war with

  Greece, ancient

  Grenoble riots

  Gresset, Jean Baptiste

  Guadet, Marguerite-Elie

  Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace

  guillotine

  Guyton, Louis

  Hanriot, François

  Hardman, John

  Harduin, Alexandre

  Harvey, William

  Hébert, Jacques René

  Helvétius, Claude-Adrien

  Henry, Jean Baptiste

  Henry II, king of France

  Henry IV, king of France

  Hérault de Séchelles, Marie Jean

  Hérivaux, abbé

  Herman, Martial Joseph Armand

  Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King

  Richard III (Walpole)

  honor

  Insurrectionary Commune

  Invalides, storming of

  Isnard, Maximin

  Jacobin Club of Paris

  assassination attempt on MR and

  Billaud-Varenne and Collot d’Herbois expelled by

  Brissot and

  Brissot and Louvet expelled by

  Châteauvieux soldiers and

  clubs in provinces affiliate with

  Danton and

  Desmoulins expelled from

  elections of 1792

  and

  expulsion policy established

  fall of monarchy and

  fall of MR and

  Feuillants split from

  formed

  Fouché expelled by

  Girondins battle with

  Lafayette denounces

  Marat assassination and

  Mirabeau and

  Mme Roland and

  mob violence and

  MR addresses, on arming for war and internal enemies

  MR addresses, on atheism

  MR addresses, on citoyens passif and National Guard

  MR addresses, on conspiracy after death of Danton

  MR addresses, on escape attempt of Louis XVI

  MR addresses, on freedom of press and speech

  MR addresses, on massacre of Champ de Mars

  MR addresses, on patriotism

  MR addresses, on religious faith

  MR becomes president of

  MR defends Danton vs. Hébert in

  MR denounces Desmoulins, Danton, and Hébert

  MR denounces fraternal banquets

  MR dominates

  MR power at height of terror and

  MR’s rise to power and Danton

  MR vs. Louvet and

  new federal army and

  petition on deposition of king and

  protests of 20 June 1792 and

  republican constitution and

  separation of power ended by

  speeches published by

  Terror supported by

  war debated in

  Jansenists

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jemappes, battle of

  Jesuits

  Jews

  Journal de Louis XVI et de son peuple (newspaper)

  Jura revolt

  “Korff, Baroness de,”

  Labille-Guyard, Adélaide

  Lafayette, Marquis de

  Danton vs.

  flees country

  flight to Varennes and

  Louis XVI and

  MR vs.

  National Guard and

  runs for mayor of Paris

  La Force prison massacre

  Lally-Tollendal, Triophime Gérard, Marquis de

  Lamballe, Princesse de

  Lameth brothers

  Lamoignon, C
hrétien François de

  Lamoignon Edicts (8 May 1788)

  Lanthenas, François-Xavier

  La Salpêtrière prison massacre

  la Tour du Pin, Henriette Lucie Dillon, Marquise de

  Launay, Bernard-René

  Law of 14 Frimaire

  Law of 22 Prairial

  Law of Suspects

  Lebas, Elizabeth

  Lebas, Philippe

  Le Gay, M.

  Legislative Assembly

  Châteauvieux soldiers and

  fall of monarchy and

  20 June 1792 and

  ultimatum to Leopold II

  legislative power

  Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Lettres à ses commettans (journal)

  lettres de cachet

  levée en masse

  Lewes, G. H.

  libel

  Lindet, Jean

  Loizelier, Frances

  Louis XIII, king of France

  Louis XIV, king of France (Sun King)

  Louis XV, king of France

  Louis XVI, king of France

  absolute power of monarchy and

  armed intervention of major powers requested by

  Austria threatens war, after Revolution vs.

  bankruptcy of

  bodyguard of, abolished

  Bourbon threat of war vs. Britain and

  captured by women and returned to Paris, in 1789

  constitution of 1791 signed by

  coronation and early reign of

  dismisses Brissot ministers

  dismisses ministers and appoints Brissot circle

  Estates General convened by

  fall of constitutional monarchy and

  Festival of Federation and

  Feuillants ministers appointed by

  flight to Varennes and

  imprisoned in Temple

  Lafayette’s last audience with

  Lamoignon Edicts and

  lettres de cachet and

  life of, at Versailles

  list of complaints vs. National Assembly and constitution

  Mirabeau and

  MR advocates deposition of

  MR welcome speech to, at Collège Louis-le-Grand

  Napoleon on fall of

  National Assembly debates executive veto by

  protests of 20 June 1792 and

  Revolution of 1789 and storming of Bastille and

  trial and execution of

  in Tuileries as virtual prisoner

  veto threat by, on refractory priests and federal army

  Louis, Antoine

  Louis Capet (dauphin, son of Louis XVI)

  regency threatened

  Louison, Antoine

  Louvet, Jean Baptiste

  Lyon, revolt and siege of

  Lyonnais Jacobins

  Maillard, Stanislas

  Maison Robespierre

  Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de

  Malouet, Pierre-Victor

  Mandat, Marquis de

  Marat, Jean-Paul

  assassination of

  censorship and

  early arrest of

  Jacobins vs. Girondins and

  insurrection of Paris and

  Louis XVI and

  Mirabeau and

  MR and

  National Convention and

  Revolutionary Tribunal and

  Terror and

  Marboeuf, Henrietta Frances de

  Marie Antoinette, queen of France

  execution of

  execution of Louis XVI and

  fall of monarchy and

  flight to Varennes and

  “Marseillaise,”

  Marseille Jacobins

  martial law

  Maury, Jean-Sifrein, abbé

  Mémoires authentiques de Maximilien Robespierre (1830 forgery)

  Mercure de France

  Michelet, Jules

  Miles, William Augustus

  Mirabeau, Comte de

  death of

  on MR

  secret letters to Louis XVI discovered

  mob violence

  Molière

  Momoro, Antoine, François

  Montesquieu, Baron de

  Montmorin, Comte de

  Moore, John

  morality

  Morison, Charles

  Mort de Mirabeau, La (Pujoulx)

  Mounier, Jean-Joseph

  Mountain

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Musée Carnavalet

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Narbonne, Comte de

  National Assembly

  Bastille storming and

  censorship and

  closes Versailles session and reconvenes in Paris

  death penalty and penal code reform

  debate in, over church and clergy

  debate in, over constitution

  debates in, over Paris municipal government

  declared by third estate, creating Revolution

  ends feudalism and monarchy

  Festival of Federation and

  Jacobin Club and

  last day of, after signing of constitution

  letters of Duke of Artois and

  Louis XVI and

  Mirabeau and

  mob violence and

  MR proposes prohibition of deputies from becoming ministers of king

  MR’s pay as deputy to

  war threat and

  war threat and, and monarch’s right to declare war

  women’s delegation to Versailles and

  National Convention

  Committee of Public Safety created by

  constitution suspended and Terror by

  Danton’s arrest and execution and

  declares war on England, Dutch Republic, and Spain

  East India Company and

  education reform and

  end to separation of powers and

  establishes worship of Supreme Being

  formation of

  Girondins attacked and arrested

  Girondins battle Mountain in

  Law of 14 Frimaire and

  Law of 22 Priarial and

  Louis XVI tried and sentenced to death by

  MR addresses, on 8 Thermidor on patriotism leading to his arrest

  MR addresses, on public morality and Terror

  MR as president of

  new executive commissions created by

  Paris insurrection and storming of Tuileries and

  price controls and

  republican constitution adopted by

  revolutinary calendar and

  second Revolutionary Tribunal established by

  National Guard

  Champ de Mars massacre and

  formed of citizen militia

  limited to active citizens

  new federalist army to replace

  professional army vs.

  Necker, Jacques

  Necker, Suzanne Curchod

  Neerwinden, battle of

  Neuvéglise, Le Blond de

  Newton, Isaac

  Nicolas, Léopold

  Nîmes, archbishop of

  nobility

  Estates General and

  parlements and

  privileges abolished

  taxation and

  Nootka Sound dispute

  Nouvelle Héloïse, La (Rousseau)

  Offrande a la patrie (Offering to the Fatherland) (Marat)

  Orateur du peuple, L’

  Organt (Saint-Just)

  Osselin, Charles Nicholas

  Othryades

  Paine, Thomas

  Palloy, Pierre-François

  Pantheon

  Paris

  bread riots of 4 October 1789

  daily life in, of 1791

  Estates General and

  48 sections

  Insurrectionary Commune and

  insurrection of 1793

  insurrection of 1794 fails to materialize
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br />   Municipal Assembly

  municipal elections abolished

  municipal government of

  National Convention and

  Pétion elected mayor of

  punishment centralized in

  Revolution of 1789 and

  Paris, University of

  Paris Commune

  Parlement of Besançon

  Parlement of Bordeaux

  Parlement of Paris

  parlements

  Patriote français

  patriotic cockade

  Payan, Claude

  Peel, Robert

  Pelletier, Nicholas Jacques

  Père Duchesne (newspaper)

  Pétion, Jérôme

  flees to Caen

  Girondins and

  as mayor of Paris

  MR opposes

  National Convention and

  petition for dethronement of Louis XVI (17 July 1791)

  Pitt, William

  Plaisant, Mary Angelica

  Plutarch

  Poitou clergy

  Police Bureau

  police laws of 1794

  poor

  pope

  Pope, Alexander

  Prelude, The (Wordsworth)

  Premonstratensians of Dommartin (religious order)

  price controls

  Prise de la Bastille, La (Gossec)

  prison massacres of 1792

  prisons

  property rights

  protests of 20 June 1792

  Provence, Count of (brother of Louis XVI)

  Proyart, Liévin-Bonaventure, abbé

  Prudhon, Pierre Paul

  Prussia

  Pujoulx, Jean-Baptiste

  Pye, Henry James

  Quarterly Review, 3

  Qu’est-ce que le Tiers Etat? (What Is the Third Estate?) (Sieyès)

  Rabelais, François

  Racine, Jean

  Raigecourt, Marquise de

  Rape of the Lock, The (Pope)

  Renaudin, Léopold

  Renault, Cécile

  Réplublicain, Le (journal)

  Report on the Principles of Political Morality (speech of 5 Feb. 1794)

  republican government, theory and debate over

  Resolution (ship)

  Rêveries du Promeneur solitare, Les (Reveries of the Solitary Walker) (Rousseau)

  Revolutionary Army

  revolutionary calendar

  Revolutionary Tribunal

  first

  second

  Révolutions de France et de Brabant (Desmoulins newspaper)

  Reybaz, Etienne Salomon

  Ricord, Jean François

  rights of excluded groups

  Rights of Man, The (Paine)

  riots

  of 1775

  of 1788

  Robespierre, Augustin (brother)

  arrest and execution of

  childhood of

  Jacobins in Arras and

  MR’s visit to Arras and

  National Convention and move to Paris

  Robespierre, aunt and uncle

  Robespierre, Charlotte (sister)

  Fouché and

  mission to Lyon and

  MR visits in 1791

  in Paris

  Robespierre, Henriette (sister)

  Robespierre, Jacqueline Marguerite Carraut (mother)