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Brissot, Jacques-Pierre, 108, 155
Britain: French admiration for, 55, 249; visitors to Paris, 55, 132, 293, 357; attitude to French Revolution, 132–3; at war with France, 237, 249, 274; French émigrés in, 247–51, 259–62; radicalism, 250; economic prosperity, 252; and French invasion threat, 271, 273; peace treaty with France (1802), 292; declares war on France (1803), 295; threatens Flushing and Antwerp, 329; resists French dominance, 332; secret treaty with France and Austria at Congress of Vienna, 355; dominance after Waterloo, 369
Broglie, Marshal Victor François, Duc de, 98, 357, 376, 410
Brouquens, M. de, 171, 176, 179–80, 182, 190, 194, 231, 245–6, 274, 300, 305
Brown, Mrs (American ambassadress), 406
Browne, Lady Charlotte (later Goold), 255
Browne, Valentine, 365
Brume, General, 178, 185
Brunswick, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of, 151, 154
Brussels: occupied by French, 155–6; Frédéric appointed prefect, 306–9, 312; character, 310–12; Napoleon visits with Marie-Louise, 327–8; social life, 327–9; Frédéric leaves, 336–8; Lucie flees to on Napoleon’s return from Elba, 361–2; and Battle of Waterloo, 365
Buckingham, George Nugent-Temple Grenville, 1st Marquis of, 262
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclercq, Comte de, 57, 87
Burdett, (Sir) Francis, 55–6
Burke, Edmund, 250; Reflections on the French Revolution, 132–3
Burney, Fanny (Mme d’Arblay), 265
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, 431
Cabarrus, Thérésia see Tallien, Jeanne-Marie-Ignace-Thérésia
Cadiz, 229–30
Cagliostro, Alessandro, Conte di, 57
Caillard (ambassador to Holland), 145
calendar: changed, 160–1
Calonne, Charles-Alexandre de, 67–8, 91, 101, 288–9
Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques de, Duc de Parme, 274, 294, 296, 329
Campan, Henriette (née Genet), 287, 289
Canning, George, 367
Canoles (house), near Bordeaux, 171, 177–8, 180, 182
Canova, Antonio, 370
Carbonari (Italy), 384–5
Carême, Antonin, 295
caricatures, 93
Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, 238, 246
Carracciolo, Marchese de, 259
Carrignan, Prince Charles-Albert, Duc de, 385
Carron, Abbé, 262
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 343, 359
Castries, Armand-Charles-Augustin de La Croix, Duc de, 135
Cavaignac, General Louis Eugène, 433
Cayla, Zoe Talon, Comtesse de, 377, 392, 413
censorship: lifted, 108, 136
Chabon, M. de, 310
Chambarlhac, General, 337
Chambarlhac, Mme de, 312
Chambeau, M. de, 182, 188, 194–5, 197, 202, 206, 212–13, 224, 227, 230–1, 268–9, 290
Chambord, Henri-Dieudonné, Comte de (Duc de Bordeaux; ‘Henri V’): birth, 379; Charles X nominates as successor, 409; plot to install as king, 413, 416–17
Charles IV, King of Spain, 302, 304–5
Charles X, King of France (formerly Comte d’Artois): reign, 2, 393, 407; greets Marie Antoinette on arrival in France, 9; Lucie visits, 79; horse-racing, 94; emigrates, 105; in Koblenz, 146; in Paris for Bourbon Restoration, 347, 351, 359; in Ghent with Louis XVIII, 363; political following, 375; reconstitutes government, 402, 407–8; court, 405; hunting, 405, 408; attends reception, 407; and July revolution (1830), 408; abdication and exile, 409, 412; and plot to install Duc de Bordeaux as king, 413
Charles Albert, King of Sardinia/Piedmont, 433
Charles Felix, King of Sardinia/Piedmont, 385, 395, 433
Charlotte, Princess Royal, 253
Charlotte, Queen of George III, 253
Charrière, Isabelle de, 126
Chartres, Duc de see Orléans, Louis-Philippe Joseph, Duc d’
Chateaubriand, Mme, 398
Chateaubriand, René, Vicomte de: on Army of the Princes, 146; travels in America, 200; exile in England, 259–60, 266; returns to Paris, 280; Claire de Duras’s infatuation with, 321–2, 330, 358, 399, 400–1; in Amiens, 350; Claire seeks to find post for, 354, 378, 394; interest in Mme Récamier, 358, 397; on Louis XVIII’s meeting with Talleyrand, 366; denied ministerial post, 367; visits Mme de Staël, 375; as Foreign Minister, 394; as ambassador to Rome, 398; royalist sympathies, 416; Atala, 266; Génie du Christianisme, 292, 323; La Vie de Rance, 432
Châtelet, Duc de, 204
chauffeurs (ruffians), 234
Chaumets, M. de, 220
Chavannes, Marquis de, 262
Chénier, André, 237
Chénier, Marie-Joseph: Charles IX (play), 93
Cherubini, Maria Luigi Salvatore, 377
Chevaliers de la Foi, 375
Chiswick House, 266–7
Choiseul, Étienne François, Duc de, 8
cholera, 425, 431
Chopin, Frédéric, 407
Church: proposed appropriation of property, 12, 119; power in France, 44; represented on Estates General, 92; secularisation, 119, 122, 141; priests massacred, 153; non-juror priests persecuted, 172; priests return from exile, 291; revived under Napoleon, 292
Cincinnatus Society, 85
Claudine (maid), 431
Clermont-Tonnerre, Duc de, 239
Clermont-Tonnerre, Stanislas, Marquis de, 117, 159
Cléry, Jean-Baptiste, 262
Clifford, Charles, 6th Baron, 432
Clothilde, Madame (later Queen of Sardinia; Louis XVI’s sister), 9
Club de 1789, 118
Coigny, Aimée de, 299, 340, 342
Coigny, Chevalier de, 72, 81
Collot d’Herbois, Jean-Marie, 177–8
Combes, M. (Lucie’s tutor): teaches Lucie, 16–17, 28, 58; dines with Morris, 19; warns Lucie of losing inheritance, 45; accompanies Lucie to south, 47–8; accompanies Arthur Dillon as secretary, 52; as Frédéric’s secretary, 144, 147; in Holland with Lucie, 144; death and legacy to Lucie and Frédéric, 263–4
Comité de Surveillance, 152
Commission des Émigrés, 279
Committee of Public Safety, 139, 172
Committee for the Relief of the French Clergy and Laity, 260
Condé, Louis Joseph, Prince de, 105, 160, 248, 348–9
Condorcet, M.J.A.N. de Caritat, Marquis de, 17, 31, 85, 94, 137, 164, 171, 175
Constant, Benjamin, 243, 291
Constituent Assembly, 106
Consulat, 27, 274
Conti, Louis François, Prince de, 105, 114, 146
Conti, Princesse de, 126
Cook, Captain James, 8
Cornwallis, General Charles, 1st Marquess, 34
Corot, Camille, 0407
Correspondance Secrète (anon.), 68
Cossey Hall, Norfolk, 255–9, 274
Council of Elders, 237
Council of Five Hundred, 237
Courlande, Dorothea von Medem, Duchesse de, 347
Courrier Français, 221, 223
Couvert, Mlle (couturier), 72
Cramer, Johann Baptist, 271
Crèvecoeur, Hector St John de, 30
Custine, General Adam Philippe, Comte de, 167, 175
Custine, Marquis de, 396
Cuxhaven, 274–5
Daily Gazette (New York), 223
Damas, Abbé de, 166
Damas, Duc de, 394, 396
Danloux, Pierre, 262
Danton, Georges-Jacques, 118, 131, 137, 148, 153, 172, 193, 208
Darwin, Charles, 434
David, Jacques-Louis, 54, 120, 139, 161, 262, 297, 319, 373, 406, 434
Décazes, Elie, Duc, 376, 379
Declaration of American Independence, 212
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 108, 111, 137
Declaration of the Rights of Women, 138
Deffand, Marie de Vichy de Chamrond, Marquise du, 20, 27, 31, 65, 130
Delécluze, Etienne, 39
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Delille, Abbé, 262; La Pitié, 311
Delrieu, André, 346
Denon, Vivant, 293
Descartes, René, 140
Désilles, M. (army officer), 128–9
Desmoulins, Camille, 99–100, 118, 137, 148, 171, 193–4
Desmoulins, Lucile, 193–4, 203
Despréaux (dancing master), 318
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of, 249, 262, 266–7
Devonshire House Circle, 267
Diamond Necklace affair, 60–1
Diana (ship), 190, 192, 194–7
Dictionnaire portatif de la cuisine, 14
Diderot, Denis, 17–18, 27, 67
Dillon family, 6, 19, 25
Dillon, Arthur, Comte (Lucie’s father): character and appearance, 6; and Marie Antoinette’s wedding, 10; military service, 15, 33–4, 71; at Hautefontaine, 23, 25; and Lucie’s education, 28; interest in American War of Independence, 29–30; attends salons, 31; and wife’s health decline, 42; remarries, 51–2, 254; returns to France from St Kitts, 51; governorship of Tobago, 52; membership of Cincinnatus Society, 85; returns to France from Martinique, 114–15; membership of Assembly, 136; opposes abolition of slavery, 137–8; Lucie’s attachment to, 138, 163; resigns from Assembly, 138; and rescue of royal family, 141; accused of treachery, 154–5; remains in France, 154, 162; debts, 163; and political intrigues, 163; and trial of Louis XVI, 164–5; declines second-in-command of Army of Rhine, 167; in prison in Paris, 170, 192–4; petitions for pension, 171; trial and execution, 202–3
Dillon, Charles, 10th Viscount, 75, 149, 155, 229
Dillon, Charles, 41
Dillon, Comtesse (earlier la Touche; Lucie’s stepmother), 51, 254, 263–4, 272, 301, 314, 355
Dillon, Édouard (le beau Dillon), 24, 290
Dillon, Fanny, 258
Dillon, Henry, 11th Viscount, 255, 263
Dillon, Richard-Arthur, Archbishop of Toulouse and Narbonne: character and status, 7, 10, 15; relations with Mme de Rothe, 7, 15; life at Hautefontaine, 22–5; court connections, 35; trips to south, 44, 47–51, 58; Lucie’s attachment to, 46; administrative capacity, 50; manner, 50; and Lucie’s marriage prospects, 52, 59, 70; in Assembly of Notables, 67–8; debts, 70, 123; Frédéric’s friendship with, 79; fails election to Estates General, 94; retires to Hautefontaine, 123; in Koblenz, 147; house sequestrated, 231; in exile in England, 255; seeks financial help for Lucie in London, 263; death, 299–300
Dillon, Robert, 24
Dillon, Theobald, 7th Viscount, 5, 75, 149, 155, 229
Dillon, Thérèse-Lucy, Comtesse de (née de Rothe; Lucie’s mother): social life, 1; character and appearance, 6–7; and Lucie’s birth, 6, 8; marriage and children, 7, 25; at Marie Antoinette’s wedding, 10; dominated by mother, 15–16; at Hautefontaine, 23; singing and playing, 25–6; as lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, 26, 35–6; and Lucie’s home education, 27–8; health decline and death, 40–3; related to Josephine, 284
Directoire, 237–8, 242, 244–5; falls, 273–4
disease: understanding of, 41
Dôle, 124–5
Donizetti, Domenico, 383
Dorset, John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of, 89, 132
Drouet, Jean-Baptiste, 142
du Barry, Marie Jeanne, Comtesse, 175
Dumouriez, General Charles-François, 13, 147, 154–6, 171, 310
Dupouy, Dr, 179–81, 233, 300
Duras, Amédée de, 269–71, 290, 320–1, 323, 340, 350, 352, 422, 424
Duras, Claire de (née de Kersaint): in England, 269–70; marriage and children, 269–70; visits Lucie in Paris, 289–90; salon, 290, 373, 377; writing, 291, 399; advises Napoleon on etiquette, 320; infatuation with Chateaubriand, 321–2, 330, 358, 399–401; accompanies Lucie to meet Napoleon, 337; friendship with Lucie, 341, 399–402; at Mouchy, 342; and daughters’ marriages, 342, 378; at Compiègne, 350; lives in Tuileries, 352–3, 355, 358; seeks to advance Chateaubriand, 354, 358, 394; flees to Brussels, 361–2; and Humbert’s death, 373; ill health and death, 400–2; Édouard, 400, 402; Ourika, 399–400
Duras, Clara de, 270, 289, 350, 423; marriage, 378
Duras, Félicie de see Rochejacquelein, Félicie de la
Duroc, Grand Maréchal Christophe, 315
Edward (Duc d’Orléans’ manservant), 158 Églantine, Fabre d’, 160
Elba, 347
Elisabeth, Madame (Louis XVI’s sister), 9, 113, 115, 207
Ellison, Mrs (American minister’s wife), 217, 219
Eloff, Mme, 152
Emerson, Lucy, 222
Encyclopédie (and Encyclopédistes), 17–18, 20, 27, 67, 81, 281
Enghien, Louis de Bourbon-Condé, Duc d’, 296, 321
England see Britain
Enlightenment, the, 17–19
Espinchal, Comte d’, 154
Esquerre, Michel, 255
Estates General: convoked (1788), 91–2, 94; assembles (1789), 95–7, 102
Esterhazy, Princesse d’, 396–7
Fauchet, Joseph, 223
Fauveau, Félicie de, 414, 416
Ferdinand, Prince of Las Esturias (later King
Ferdinand VII of Spain), 302, 304, 385
Ferrari (singer), 183
Ferronays, Comte de la, 402–3
Fersen, Count Axel, 62, 141
Fête de la Raison, 185
Fête des Victoires, 222
Feuillants, 148
Fitz-James, Betsy de (née La Touche), 254, 313
Fitz-James, Duc de, 375, 389, 416
Fitz-James, Duchesse de, 254, 262
Fitz-James, Edward de, 254, 257
Flahaut, Adélaïde de, Comtesse de, 131, 135; Adèle de Senange, 262
Fleury, Vicomte de, 70
Fontenay, Marquis de, 184
Forester, Lady (née Dillon), 7
Forges-les-Eaux, Normandy, 102
Fort du Hâ, 185, 188, 418–20
Fouché, Joseph, Duc d’Otrante, 177–8, 245, 278–9, 294, 366, 369
Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine Quentin, 173, 193, 210
Fox, Charles James, 208, 211, 249
France: administration under ancien régime, 8–9, 21; culture, 21; country house life, 22; support for United States of America, 31–4; financial deficit and poverty, 35, 90, 93–4; condition of roads, 47; close relations with USA, 55, 84–5; English visitors, 55; food and cuisine, 56; administrative and economic decline, 67, 81; proposed reforms, 67–8, 74; Three Estates, 67; harvest failures, 91, 154–5; panic and violence in, 104–5, 108; émigrés, 123–7, 128, 145–6, 156–7, 233, 248–9, 259–62; army mutinies, 127–8; forms of address, 139; constitution drafted, 142–3; declared republic and monarchy abolished, 143; war with Austria, 149, 157–8, 237; counter-revolutionary rebellions, 167; executions, 173, 175, 179, 221; Lucie returns to from America, 231; conditions after Revolution, 233–5; at war with Britain, 237, 249, 274; invasion threat from, 271, 273; military activities, 273; émigrés return, 278, 290; peace treaty with Britain (1802), 292; territorial gains, 292, 298; Britain declares war on (1803), 295; new legal code (Code Napoléon), 296, 316; economic prosperity under Napoleon, 316; repression and control in, 316, 334–5; men’s dress under Napoleon, 331; financial weakness (1811), 334; Russian campaign, 335; war casualties, 340; military defeats (1813–14), 343–4, 346; and Bourbon restoration (1814), 346–7, 348–50; reverts to borders of 1792, 352; suppressed by occupying forces, 367–8; and peace terms, 369; political parties after Napoleon, 375–6; and unrest in Italy, 385–7; prosperity under Louis XVIII, 392; rise of right-wing ultras, 392–3, 403; cholera epidemic, 425
Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 343, 346
François-Charles-Joseph-Napoleon, King of Rome (Napoleon’s son; Napoleon II), 331, 433
Franklin, Benjamin, 12, 30–2, 84–6, 200
Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 346
Frémilly, Baron de, 238
French Revolution: Napoleon on origins, 59; and Assembly of Notables, 68; outbreak, 100–2; and cult of antiquity, 120; ceremonies and festi
vals, 121; see also Terror, the
Gallatin, James, 363
Garde Nationale, 101, 107–10, 121
Garnerin, M. & Mme (balloonists), 290, 350
Gaumont, M. de, 262
Gay, Sophie, 283
Genlis, Félicité, Comtesse de, 86, 90, 281, 285, 287, 291, 358, 406
Genlis, M. de, 175
Genoa, 292
Geoffrin, Marie Thérèse Rodet, 20, 27
George III, King of Great Britain, 253
George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV), 262
Georges, Mlle (actress), 293
Gérard, François Pascal Simon, Baron, 319, 377, 382, 434
Geyer (Boston merchant), 199, 201
Gibbon, Edward, 84, 125, 146, 249, 265
Gibbs, James, 251
Gillray, James, 250, 271
Girondins, 172, 176–7
Godoy, Manuel, 304–5
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 153
Goncourt, Jules and Edmond, 131, 281
Gossec (musician), 293, 311
Gouges, Olympe de, 138–9, 175
Gouvernet see La Tour du Pin Governet
Gouvernet, Marquis de, 167
grain prices, 90, 94
Grand, Catherine, 290
Granville, Harriet, Countess, 358, 406
Great Fear (1789), 102–3, 123
Grégoire (servant), 181, 187, 235
Grenville, William Wyndham, Baron, 208, 345
Grétry, André, 237, 311
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 105
Grimod de la Reynière, Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent: Manuel des Amphitryons, 319
Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron, 319, 357, 370
Guadeloupe, 293
Guéménée, Jules Hercule, Prince de, 24–5, 40, 45
Guéménée, Marie Louise, Princesse de, 35, 45, 88, 95
Guérin, Narcisse, 319
Guery, Comtesse de, 262
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace, 117
guillotine, 172
Guines, Adrien, Duc de, 83
Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume, 376, 410
Hague, The, 144–7, 150, 155–6; Frédéric’s ambassadorship, 352, 370, 374–5; character, 373
Hamilton, Alexander, 206, 211, 220, 223, 279
Hamilton, Elizabeth (née Schuyler), 206
Harris, Sir James, 145
hats: and fashion, 65
Hautefontaine (château), near Compiègne, 22–6, 45, 123, 231, 279, 288
Haydn, Joseph: Creation, 290
Hébert, Jacques-René, 150, 174, 193
Heine, Heinrich, 392