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Marat their enemy, 448; plots for
their destruction, 452; their divi-
sions. 457; their influence, 461; ac-
cused by Danton, 465; their proposed
constitution, 477; Commission of
Twelve" selected from them, 506;
defeated by the Montagnards, 520,
iii. I; conspiracy for assassinating, iii.
2; discovered, 3; their unpopularity,
7; their position, 8; Robespierre's
attacks on, 21 their defeat, 22;
alarm for their safety, 28; excitement
against, 31; report of the Committee
of Public Safety against, 32; their
fall, 36; their flight, 41; St. Just's
report against, 47; a portion take
refuge in Caen, 49, 51; feeling in
favour of in Normandy, 60; fo
ment insurrection in the north. 61;
their miserable condition, 95; their
fate, 96; Amar's report against, 162;
imprisoned, 165, 167; their trial, 172;
characteristics of the prisoners, 173-
175; their condemnation, 177; their
execution, 185; reflections, 186; per-
secutions against those who had fled,
272; their sufferings, 274; their melan-
choly fate, 279, 280; reliques of in the
National Convention at the fall of
Robespierre, 512.

Gouvion, speech of, i. 348.

Government, theories of, iii. 105.
Grandmaison, Mad., her execution, iii
481.

Grangeneux, his devotion to the Revolu-
tion, ii. 23.

Graves for the victims, ii, 116.
Gregoire, speech of, ii, 284.

Gregory, bishop, his noole conduct, iii.

260.

Guadet, biographical notices of, i. 316,

ii. 11; his speeches, i. 316, 433, ii. 472,
503, 505; his interview with the king,
ii. 12; his execution, iii. 278.
Guillotine, described, ii. 358; reign of
the, iii. 292.

Gustavus, king of Sweden, i. 181; con.
spiracy against, 385; assassinated, 386.
Hebert, the Communist, arrested. ii. 511;
set at liberty, iii. 6; Robespierre's
attack on. 329; quarrels with Des.
moulins, 337; his daring, 346; re-
arrested, and executed with his party,
353

Madame, her execution, ili 293.
Henriot, character of, ii. 515; daring
conduct of, iii. 525; arrested, 529; his
execution, 541.

Herault-de-Séchelles, speech of, ii. 519;
accusations against, iii. 373; his charac-
ter, 374; his trial, 379; his execution,
390.

Hierarchy, weakness of the, iii. 299.
Hoche, general, notices of, iii. 204;
defeats the Prussians, 401; arrest of,
ib.

Holland, tolerant spirit in, i 186.
Hondschoote, battle of, ii. 201.

Howe, admiral, defeats the French fleet,
iii. 404.

Hue, M., his secret correspondence with
Marie Antoinette, ii. 139.
Huguenin, declaration of, i. 496.

Insurrection fomented through the coun-
try, iii. 13, 49.

Iron Chest of the Tuileries, ii. 292, 297.
Isabeau, notices of, iii. 314.

Isnard, character of, i. 229; speeches of,
230, 244, iii. 32; chosen president of
the National Convention, ii. 501; his
declaration, 504; firmness of, 513.
Italy, political state of, i. 178; poets and
philosophers of, 184.

Jacobins, origin of the club, i. 33; the
members, 31; their proceedings, 79;
Robespierre's and Danton's addresses
to the, 80, 82; denunciations against De
Lessart. 379; their joy at the death
of Gustavus of Sweden, 390; adopt
the bonnet rouge, 418; quarrel with
the Girondists, 436; unite with them,
ii 30; their leaders, 82; their in-
creasing power, and contentions with
the Girondists, 181, 183; their momen-
tary decline, 191; their address, iii.
113; their blood-thirstiness, 249; their
fall with Robespierre, 534.
Jemappes, battle of, ii. 399-413.
Jourdan, butcheries of, i. 324.

general, his military operations, iii.
397.
Journals of Paris, violence of the, i. 438.

Kellermann, general, bravery of, i. 162;

notices of, iii. 218; hombards Lyons, 220.
Kersaint, character of, ii. 202; his dis-
putes, 203; letter of, 342.
King. See Louis XVI.

Klootz, Anacharsis, Robespierre's attack
on, iii. 334.

La Belle Bouquetière, savage murder
of, ii. 138.

Lacombe, Rose, character of, iii. 323.
Lacroix, imprisonment of, iì. 364; trial
of, 381.

Ladmiral, plans the assassination of
Robespierre, iii. 441; attacks Collot
D'Herbois, 442; his execution, 481.
La Fayette, biographical notices of, i. 37;
his popularity, 39; attacks on, 72, 82,
118; power assumed by, 73; letter of,
251; his retirement, 252; candidate
for the mayoralty of Paris, 253; his
interference with the Duke of Orleans,
364 military character of, 448; diffi-
culties of, i. 5; his declining popu-
larity, 6. 14; plans of, 9, 98; made
prisoner, 99.

Lajaille, M. de, attacked by the populace,
i. 339.

Lamballe, Princess, notices of, i. 508:
attempt to save her life, ii. 134; murder
of, 136.

Lameths, The, character of, i. 28.
Lamourette's attempt to reconcile par-
ties, ii. 25.

Lanjuinais, character of, iii. 3; speech
of, 4; his bold address, 30.

La Plaine, party of, arraigned against
Robespierre, iii. 512.

Laréveillère-Lépeaux, sufferings of, iii.

411.

Lasource, speech of, ii. 201.

Lauzun, Duc de, character of, i. 474.
Lébas, notices of, iii. 318; letter of, ib.;
suicide of, 535.

Lebon, Joseph, sanguinary spirit of, iii.

312.

Legendre, character of, i. 482; his inso-
lence, 504; his appeal in favour of
Danton, fii. 365; taunts Robespierre
after his fall, 533.

Legrand d'Alleray, virtuous character of,
iii. 291; his execution, ib.
Leopold of Austria, his character, i. 377;
his death, 381; supposed to be poisoned,
382; his vices and virtues, 383.
Lessart, the minister, loyalty of, i. 377; his
despatch to the Austrian court, 378;
denounced by the Jacobins, 379; by the
Giroudists, 393; superseded by Roland,
394.

Levasseur, speech of, iii. 31; anecdotes

of, 470.

Lille, besieged, ii. 391.

Lodoiska, devotedness of, ii, 453.
Longwi, etfects of the capture of, ii. 112.
Louis de Narbonne, character of, i. 205.
Louis XVI., his personal appearance and
character, i. 17, 18, 454; his brothers,
45, 195; attempts to escape, 46, 51, 59;
recognised by Drouet, 62; recaptured,
65; agitated state of Paris on his escape,
70; his manifesto, 76; his re-entrance
into Paris, 94; his capture reported
to the National Assembly, 96; courage
of his queen, 98; effects of his flight,
99; his address to the commissioners of
the National Assembly, 105; consti-
tution presented to, 166; his reply and
acceptance of it, 167; dissolves the
National Assembly, 171; his letter to
the King of Prussia, 192; first au-
dience with the National Assembly,
213; deprived of his titles, 214; his
address to the National Assembly, 219;
new policy of, 234, letter to the Assem-
bly, 422; proposes war with Austria,
445; the mob break into his palace,
501 his danger, 503; feeling in his fa
vour, ii. 2; his interview with Pétion,
3; his kingly dignity suspended, 84;
fate of his adherents, 89; sent with
his family to the Temple, 93; attendants
dismissed, 94; sends a message to
the Assembly, 54; is insulted, 60; his
death considered necessary, 249;
charges prepared against him, 250;
confinement in the Temple, and treat-
ment, 257-280, 327; arrested and se-
parated from his family, 267; habits of,
274; his inviolability discussed, 281;
debates on the trial of, 301; sum-
moned to the Convention, 308; act of
accusation, 311; his examination, 312;
Male-herbes undertakes his defence,
316; his will, 318; his defence, 221;
debate in the Convention, 325; de-
clared guilty, 330; his firmness, 342;

his last demands, 343; interview with
his wife and children, 348; instructions
to Cléry, 355; his progress to the
scaffold, 356; his resignation, 359;
his execution, 360; opinions upon it,
361; universal indignation inspired by
his death, 383.

Louis-Philippe, Duc de Chartres, cha-
racter of, ii. 159; early career, 160;
his bravery at the battle of Jemappes,
409.

Louvet, speeches of, i. 310, ii. 222, 231,
iii. 62; biographical notices of, ii. 229;
dangers of, 452.

Luckner, Marshal, character of, i. 476.
Lux, Adam, notices of, iii. 88, 91, 92.
Lyons, description of, iii. 205; guillotine
erected at, 209; proceedings of the Ja
cobins at, 211; state of parties in,
213; besieged by the Convention, 219;
bombarded, 220; capture of, 225; severe
measures against, 230, 236; demolition
of, 232; wholesale massacres, 238, 241;
decimated, 240, 245; traits of heroism
at, 246.

Mack, colonel, his negotiations with Du
mouriez, ii. 429.

Maiguet, his cruelties, iii. 114.
Maillard, sanguinary spirit of, ii, 124.
Malesherbes, character of, ii. 315; under-
takes the defence of the king, 316; his
execution, iii. 412.

Mallet-Dupan, the king's confidant, i.

456.

Malouet's plan for amending the consti-
tution, i. 131; his defence of the mo-
narchy, i. 162.

Marat, biographical notices of, i. 116; his
atrocious writings, 440; excites dis-
gust, ii. 210; his address to the Con-
vention, 211; danger of, 213; habits
of, 214; life and character, 215, 442;
his invectives against the Girondists,
290, 449, 459; objects of, 441; his
thirst for blood, 451, 487; his audacity,
482; his triumph, 483; his arrogance,
485; his ascendency, iii. 52; his resi-
dence, 72; his person, 74; stabbed
by Charlotte Corday, 75; excitement
caused thereby, 77; his funeral, 93.
Marie Antoinette, queen of Louis XVI,
i. 21; her conduct and plans, 23, insults
offered to, 417; menaces of the mob,
507; her family, 509; her conduct, ii.
47, iii. 138; her apprehensions, ii. 58;
her execution urged, iii. 137; removed
to the Conciergerie, 142; her captivity,
146; her trial, 149; her condemnation,
152, her last letter, 153; her de-
meanour, 156; her progress to the guil-
lotine. 158; her piety, 159; her execu-
tion, 160.

Marseillais, their arrival at Paris, ii. 32;
arrangements for their reception, 33;
attack the palace, 77.

Marseillaise Hymn, i. 515; its origin and
popularity, 519.

Massacres of Paris, ii. 121-141.
Maubeuge, siege of, iii. 202.

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Mandat, commandant, murdered, ii. 51.
Maury, character of, i. 26.

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Mayence, captured. ii, 373, iii. 98.
Mayor of Paris, candidates for, i. 253.
Mende, insurrection at, i. 337; National
Guard drives out the troops, 338.
Merlin de Douai, decree of, iii. 123.
Military convention concluded, ii. 171.
Ministers of Louis XVI., i. 19; changes
of, 461, 463; their position, ii. 216.
Mirabeau, notices of, i. 2; his education,
3; his marriage, 4; enters the National
Assembly, 5; his master mind, G; his
death, 7; his character, 8; his opinion
of the Duke of Orleans, 362.
Miranda, general, plans of, ii. 428.
Molleville, letter of, i. 235; notices of,
298.

Monarchy, Malonet's defence of the, i.

162.

Mons, entered by the French, ii. 416.
Montagnards triumphant over the Giron-
dists, ii. 520, iii. 1.; their ascendency
and arbitrary proceedings, iii. 22, 40.
Montmerin, M. de, murder of, ii. 128.

Nantes, wholesale executions at, iii. 307-
311.

Naples, submission of the king, ii. 391.
Narbonne, M. de, character of, i. 299;
his policy and success, 301; Robes-
pierre his sole opponent, 303; report
of, 319; his dismissal, 380.
National Assembly, its power, i. 9; its
composition, 24; its principal members,
25; its discussions, 43; address of the,
84; resolution respecting the king,
107: address of the Cordeliers to,

108: loses power, 136; dissolved by
Louis XVI., 171; its desire for war,
202;
new constitution of the, 212;
its decrees, 214; the king's address to,
219; its mistake, 268: its hesitation,
270; royal message sent to, ii. 54; its
conduct, 55; visited by the royal family,
64; proceedings on the occasion, 67;
its impotency, 140; abdication of its
members in favour of the National Con.
vention, 175.

National Convention, its first formation,
ii. 83; suspends royalty, 84; decree of
the 85; unequal to the crisis, 96; its
members, 175; preparations for the
king's death, 334; plot for murdering
its members betrayed, 452; its decla-
ration, 475; held in the Tuileries,
499; Isnard chosen president, 501;
its violent disputes and proceedings,
203, 498, 502, iii. 15— 22, 30, 458, 510,518
surrounded by troops, iii. 29; threat-
ened with popular outrage, 33; insulted
by the soldiery, 35; its weakness, 35,
117; Girondists driven from the,
and persecuted, 41; indignation of
the departments against, 42; govern-
ment of the, 106; Committee of Pub-
lic Safety formed, 107; their decrees,
114, 456; measures of the, 116; cause
the reign of terror, 120; two par-
ties in the, 132; preparations for a
death struggle, 512; violent proceed-
ings against Robespierre, 516, 523;
its dangerous situation, 531; trium-

phant over Robespierre and his party,
534.
National Guard, the people massacred
by the, i. 127; assembling of the, ii. 43.
National procession, iii. 111.
Navy of France, operations of the, iii.
403; battle with admiral Howe, 404.
Negro slaves at St. Domingo, i. 326; in-
surrection of, 330.

Nice, occupied by the French, ii. 388.
Nuns of Montmartre, their execution,
iii. 415.

Ogé, notices of, i. 328; execution of, 330
Oneille, attack and destruction of, ii.
389.

Orleans, prisoners of, ii. 144.

Orleans, Louis-Philippe J., Duc d', Sil-
lery's defence of. i. 160; his character,
354, 356, 358; disliked at Court, 357,
372; Mirabeau's estimate of, 364; made
Admiral of France, 367; his declara-
tion, 368; becomes a Jacobin, 372;
speech of, ii. 286; charges against,
306; votes for the king's death, 335 ;
satires against the faction of, 492; im-
prisoned, 495, iii. 187; his trial and
condemnation, iii. 188; his last mo-
ments, 190; his execution, 192; re-
marks on, 193.

-, Duchess, notices of, i. 356.

Pache, character of, ii. 395; minister of
war, 396.

Paganism established, iii. 298.
Paine, Thomas, notices of, ii. 284; his
ungrateful conduct, 285.

Paoli, the Corsican patriot, i. 401.
Paris, violent storm at, ii. 32; ferments
in, 36; arrests in, 119; massacres of,
121141; disturbed state of, 331, 449,
iii. 12; violence of the mob, ii. 333;
distress of the poor, 446; progress of
the insurrection in, iii. 13.

Parties, state of, i. 249, 257, ii. 201, 450,
467.

Payan, conduct of, iii. 528.
People, will of the, i. 267.
Pétion, his address to the Jacobin Club.
i. 133; character of, 255, 346; mayor
of Paris, 256, 478; his policy, 479, 512;
ii. 42, 48; his angry interview with the
king, 3; the favourite of the mob,
15; his escape, 49; his melancholy
fate, iii. 280.

Philippeaux, accusations against, iii. 373.
Philosophers of France, i. 16.

Pichegru, general notices of, iii. 204.
Piedmont, political state of, i. 180; army
of, ii. 387.

Pilnitz, coalition of, i. 196.

Pitt, Wm., genius of, ii. 376; his feelings
towards France, 377.

Place de la Revolution, the site of the
king's execution, ii. 358.

Police spies employed by Robespierre,
iii. 463.

Poor, distress of, in Paris, ii. 446; their
outrages, 447.

Précy, general Comte de, character of

iii. 215; heads the Lyonnese against the
Convention, 217, 220; flight of, 225.
Press, influence of, in France, i. 114; its
revolutionary spirit, i. 146.
Primary Assemblies, established, ii. 95.
Priesthood, speech against the, i. 226;
decree against, 233; massacred, ii. 122;
imprisoned, iii. 155.

Printing, revolutionary results of, i.

13.

Prisons, horrors of the, iii. 419.

Provisions, dearness of, ii. 287, 297.
Prussia, political state of, i. 174; king of
joins in a coalition against the Revo-
lution, 198; M. de Segur's mission to,
207.

Prussians, advance of the, ii. 107; attack
Dumouriez at Valmy, 155; defeated,
iii. 401.

Public Safety, Committee of, ii. 459,
iii. 26, 107, 468.
Puisaye, defeat of, iii, 50.

Queen. See Marie Antoinette.
Quesvremont, M. de, fanaticism of, iii.
477.

Reason, worship of, iii. 303.

Redeler, Alan, incites to civil war in
Brittany, ii. 21.

Renault, Cécile, arrest of, iii. 442; her
execution, 481.

Reign of terror, iii. 120, 125; reflections
on, 130.

Religion, state of, i. 224; becomes ob-
noxious, iii. 297; paganism established,

298, Catholicism abolished, 301; wor-
ship of reason, 302.

Republic, popular clamours in favour of
a, i. 117; plans for, 467; decreed at
Paris, ii. 163; necessary to France at
the period of the Revolution, 178;
adopted by the Girondists, ii. 180; pro-
claimed, 184; its armies, iii. 194, 198;
its principles, 294; its calendar, 295.
Restoration, plans for a, ii. 421.
Revolts become universal, i. 341.
Revolution, glance at the, i. 9; defined,
12; its leaders, 32, 40; state of the
kingdom at the time of, 33; reflections
on, 41, 173, 218, iii. 5415; its irre-
sistible advance, i. 113; coalition of
Austria and Russia against the, 198;
declaration against, 199; intended for
all mankind, 258; its various phases,
481; preparations for the, 482; as-
sembling of the people, 488; numbers
slaughtered at the first outbreak, ii. 87;
sullied by murder, 118; state of France
before the, 177; its great epoch ter-
minated with Robespierre, iii. 545.
Revolutionary Tribunal, ii. 455, 460, iii.
122, 457.

Rexpoede, attack on, iii. 200.

Richard, Mad., devotion of, to Marie An-
toinette, iii. 145.

Robespierre, character of, i. 30; his per-
sonal appearance, 31; his address to
the Jacobins, 78; his popularity, 121,
fi. 200; his hatred of Brissot, i. 142,
430; his address to the National As-

his

his

sembly, 165; his opposition to war,
307; speeches of, 434, ii. 113, 207,
236, 289, 294, 302, iii. 350, 367, 444, 483,
485, 495; diatribes against, i. 438; ad-
dress to the Fédérés, ii. 19; his humane
expressions of feeling, 121; his posi-
tion and views, 192, iii. 104, 425;
simplicity of his life, ii. 194, 196, iii.
320; his affection for Eleonore Du-
play, ii. 195; his compositions, 198;
policy of, 232, 441, iii. 11, 119;
meeting with Danton, ii. 461; accuses
Vergniaud, 468; his declaration of
rights, 475; his theory of govern-
ment, 498, ii. 293, 427; his firm-
ness, iii. 100; Danton's opinion of,
103; brother of, 317; his report,
326; acknowledges a God, 330,
434, 450; his sentiments, 349;
great influence, 354, 424, 443;
jealousy of Danton and the results,
356-380; parties opposed to, 428;
rising discontent against, 430; his in-
fluence over the Jacobins, 431; his
opposition to Atheism, 435; his as-
sassination contemplated, 441; elected
president of the Convention, 448';
creates enemies, 453; his violent
altercations with the Convention,
458, 461; withdraws from the Com-
mittee of Public Safety, 462; his
police spies, 463; his secret notes
against his antagonists, 464; anony-
mous letters of, 466; his private feuds,
467 ; conspiracies against, 468, 472,
478, 489; attacked in the Convention,
506; excites the Jacobins, 508; vio-
lent proceedings against, in the Na-
tional Convention 513-521; his arrest
and imprisonment, 523, 525; shot by
the soldiers, 536; insults heaped on
him, 537; his execution, 542; re-
flections on, 543.

Ræderer, courage of, i. 495; his advice
to the royal family, ii. 53, 63.
Roland de la Platière, character of, i.
283, 296; his career, 284; his marriage,
285; appointed Minister of the Interior,
394; his letter to the king, 424; his
vanity, 409; his letter to the Giron-
dists, 426; public attacks on, ii. 187, 217;
his defence, 218; his arrest, iii. 23;
his escape, 24; commits suicide on
hearing of the death of his wife,

271.

Roland, Madame, character of, i. 273;
personal appearance,275; abilities, 276;
habits, 277; the Heloise of the eigh-
teenth century, 279; her husband,
283, 296; her love for mankind, 289;
interview with Brissot, 291; connexion
with Robespierre, 293; her sagacity,
411, ii. 110; affection for Buzot, i.
469; accusations against, ii. 298; ac-
quitted by the Convention, 299; heroism
of, iii. 24; arrested, 25; her imprison-
ment, ib.; accused, 256; imprisoned,
258; letter to Robespierre, 261; trial
and sentence, 268;, her execution,
270.

Rome under the emperors, iil. 311.

Roucher, author of "Les Mois," executed,

iii. 524.

Roujet de Lisle, author of the Marscil-
laise hymn, i. 519.

Rousseau, character of, i. 15.

Royal family of France, alarms of the, ii.
26; insults offered to, 27, 60: their
palace surrounded by soldiers, 59;
visit the National Assembly, 64; de-
posed, 90; sent to the Temple, 93;
their attendants dismissed, 94; confined
in the Temple, 257; their treatment,
259; separated from the king, 267;
habits of while in prison, 272; plan
for effecting their escape, 280; horrors
of their imprisonment, iii. 420; tombs
of at St. Denis destroyed, 305.
Royalists, their arrangements, ii. 43; their
distrust, 78.

Royalty, suspension of, ii. 54.

Russia, political state of, i. 1753; prepares
for war, ii. 383.

Sainte-Amaranthe, Mad. de, beauty of,
iii. 476; execution of, 481.

St. Denis, royal tombs of, destroyed, iii.

304.

St. Domingo, slavery at, i. 327; insur-
rection of the Blacks, 330.

St. Fargeau, assassination of, ii. 368.
St. Huruge, Marq., his violent sentiments,
i. 489.

Saint Just, the friend of Robespierre, ii.
120, ii. 426; speeches of, ii. 282, iii.
451, 514; report of, iii. 47; character of,
318; his address to the National
Convention, 352; his accusation of
Danton, 362; his style of oratory,
432; his overthrow and execution,
541.

St. Marc, colonel, murder of. ii. 130.
Salle, M., letter to his wife, iii, 277; death
of, 278.

Santerre, liberality of, i. 482; anecdote
of. 510.

Sartines, M. de, notices of, iii. 476.
-, Mad., her execution, iii. 481.
Savoy, political state of, i. 180, ii. 386;
description of, ii. 385.

Scheldt, opening of the, ii. 422.

Segur, M. de, his mission to Berlin, i.
207.

September 2d, slaughter of, ii. 122,
142.

Servan, accusations against, i. 459; his
proposition, 460.

Sièyès, Abbé. plans of, ii. 246.
Sillery, his detence of the Duke of Or-
leans, i. 160.

Sillery-Genlis, Madame de, notices of, ii.

431.

Simon, his cruelty to the Dauphin, iii.
141.

Simoneau, murder of, i. 353.

Soldiery, their treachery, i. 500; defection,
ii. 59; devotion, 152.

Solminiac, M. de, sacrifice of, ii. 70.
Sombreuil, heroic devotion oˆhis daugh-
ter to save his life, ii. 129; his execution,
iii. 481.

Spain, political state of, i. 176; her troops
defeated, iii. 403.

Spire, captured by the French troops, ii.

372.

Stael, Madame de, character and genius
of, i. 203.

Stanislaus, policy of, ii. 404.
Storm, violent, at Paris, ií. 32.

Suleau, sacrificed by the populace, ii. 70.
Supernatural, instinctive love of the, iii.
473.

Supreme Being, festival of the, iii. 450.
Sweden, political state of, i. 181.
Swiss Guards, attacked, ii. 72; conflict
with, 73; destruction of, 77, 125.
Swiss soldiers, punishment of the, i. 342.

Talleyrand, political character of, ii. 378;
opinions of, 379.

Tallien, governor of Bordeaux, iii. 315;
his letter to Robespierre, iii. 460; speech
of, 516, 518.

Tascher, Josephine, imprisonment of,
iii. 418.

Temple, description of the, ii. 254; royal
family imprisoned in, 257.

Terror, revival of the reign of, iii. 392,
406; condemnations en masse, 413.
Théos, Catherine, hallucinations of, ili.
473.

Thermidoriens, conspiracies of the, iii,
469.

Theroigne de Méricourt, character and
influence of, i. 491; her melancholy
fate, 492.

Thierri, murder of, ii. 129.

Tison, Mad., waiting woman of Marie
Antoinette, iii. 140.

Tocsin, sounded in Paris, ii. 40.
Toleration, advantages of, i. 228.

Toulan, character of, ii. 279; his plan for
releasing the queen, 280.

Toulon, civil war at, iii. 251; destruction
of, 254; bloodshed at, 255.

Tourney, Abbé, his reply respecting the
priesthood, i. 227.

Treaty, basis of between France and
Prussia, ii. 168; emigrants dissatisfied,
169.

Tribunal of blood, ii. 137.
Tuileries described, ii. 41; its interior
disposition, 45; defended from the as-
saults of the mob by the Swiss guards.
721
entered by the populace, 77;
the National Convention held in the,
499.

Vadier, anecdote of, iii. 470; his intrigues
against Robespierre, 478, speech of,
519.

Valenciennes, capitulation of, iii. 99.
Valmy, military encounter at, íì. 155;
battle of, 162.

Van-der-noot, notices of, i. 450.
Varennes, town of, i. 64.

Varlet, murderous plan of, iii. 1.
Vaublanc, courage of, ii. 38.
Vaucluse, army of the, i. 324.
Venice, political state of, i. 178.
Verdun, capitulation of, ii. 108.

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