Affairs, 95; "a miserable intriguer," 95; his career, 96; Masson's
description of him, 98; plays a double part, 101; his description of
Louis XVI., 104; made Minister of Foreign Affairs, 103; Memoirs of,
quoted, 127, 129, 130; urges the King to sign the decree for the
transportation of the clergy, 150; has an interview with the Queen,
153; refuses to be Madame Roland's puppet, 158; aids the King to be rid
of Roland and his faction, 164; takes the portfolio of War, 166; before
the Assembly, 167; resigns, 169; final interview of, with the King,
171; entreats him not to veto the decrees, 172 _et seq._; goes to the
army, 174.
Duranton, made Minister of Justice, 103, 160.
Elisabeth, Madame, letter of, concerning the fete of Chateauvieux, 120;
remains with the King during the invasion of the Tuileries, 200;
mistaken by the mob for Marie Antoinette, 202; rejoins the Queen, 212;
letter of, to Madame de Raigecourt, 239; cherishes false illusions,
265; pious maxim of, 276; her gentleness, 295; prayer of, in the
Temple, 347.
Emigration of the nobility the rule in 1792, 2.
Federation, fete of the, 249 _et seq._
Fersen, Count de, new information concerning, 14; his chivalric
devotion to Marie Antoinette, 15; their correspondence, 16; secret
mission of, 18; sees the King and Queen, 19; his melancholy end, 21, 22.
Feuillants, Convent of the, royal family imprisoned in, 328 _et seq._
Feuillants, club of, 6.
Force, the, prison of, 350.
Fournier, "the American," 369.
Francis II., warlike acts of, 127.
Geoffrey, M., remarks of, on Gustavus III., 33; quoted, 132.
Girondins, the, 177; hesitate to depose the King, 271; tacitly approve
the massacres, 377.
Gouges, Olympe de, 240.
Gouvion, M. de, protests against admitting the Swiss to the Assembly,
116; death of, 167.
Grand Chatelet, massacres at, 367.
Grave, de, made Minister of War, 103; replaced by Servan, 160.
Gregoire urges the abolition of royalty, 387; career of, after the
Revolution, 391.
Guadet, hostility of, to Lafayette, 234.
Guillotine, Doctor, and his invention, 12.
Guillotine, the, 12; diversion of society over, 13.
Gustavus III., his interest in Marie Antoinette, 17; trusted by her,
17; letter of, to her, 18; at Aix-la-Chapelle, 32; his superstition,
34; his promises to Louis XVI., 36; conspiracy against, 37 _et seq._;
assassination of, 40 _et seq._; scenes at his death, 42; character of,
43.
Hannaches, Mademoiselle d', 30, 77.
Hebert, Abbe, confesses the King, 276.
Hebert (Pere Duchesne) on guard at the Temple, 388.
Heine, Heinrich, quoted, 278.
Herbois, Collot d', his part in the affair of the regiment of
Chateauvieux, 112 _et seq._; attacks Andre Chenier, 114; fate of, 125;
boasts of the 2d of September, 362; urges the abolition of royalty,
387; fate of, 391.
Hervelly, M. d', brings the order to the Swiss to cease firing, 310.
Hue, Francois, with the King in his captivity, 331; receives from the
King a lock of his hair, 346.
Huguenin, the orator of the insurrectionists of June 20, 192; chief of
the Commune, 316.
Insurrectionists of June 20, organization of, 182; enter the hall of
the Assembly, 193; break into the Tuileries, 198.
Isle, Rouget de l', author of the _Marseillaise_, 269.
Jacobin Club, place of its meeting, 5; its affiliations, 6; Lafayette's
remarks on, 9; joy of at, the death of Gustavus III., 44; the
insurrectionary power of, 177; of Brest and Marseilles, send two
battalions to Paris, 268; royalist, in June, 1792, 385.
Jourdan, the headsman, 120.
June 20, insurrection of, 186 _et seq._
La Chesnaye commands the force in the Tuileries, 293.
Lacoste, made Minister of the Marine, 103.
Lafayette, letter of, to the Assembly, 178 _et seq._; his letter not
published, but referred to a committee, 181; his relations to the
Jacobins, 230; before the National Assembly, 232; distrusted by the
King and Queen, 236; anxious that the King should leave Paris, 256.
Lalanne, the grenadier, and Louis XVI., 200.
Lamartine, quoted, 131; his observations on Lafayette, 231; on Madame
Roland, 372.
Lamballe, Princess of, 121, 321, 331; not allowed to go to the Temple
with the Queen, 343; sent to the Force, 350 _et seq._; examination and
execution of, 352 _et seq._; her body mutilated and her head carried on
a pike to the Temple, 355; her heart eaten, 358.
Lamourette, Abbe, his career, 241; his speech to the Assembly and his
proposition for harmony, 242.
Laporte burns the Countess de la Motte's book at the Queen's order, 142.
Lebel, Madame de, 353.
Legendre, addresses the King insolently, 202.
Leopold II., his interest in French affairs, 23; death of, 27.
Lessart, de, report of, disapproved by the Assembly, 28; impeached, 30;
massacre of, 369.
Lilienhorn, Count de, one of the assassins of Gustavus III., 37, 45.
_Logographe_, box of the, 299 _et seq._
Louis XVI., despised by the _emigres_, 25; letter of, to Gustavus III.,
36; appoints a ministry chosen by the Gironde, 103; his deference to
his ministers, 104 _et seq._; declares war on Austria, 126, 129;
sufferings of, 132; not a soldier, 133, 139; has no plan, 135;
anecdotes of, by M. de Vaublanc, 139, 140; sacrifices his guard, 145;
repents his concessions, 148; for several days in a sort of stupor,
151; insulted by Roland and his faction, 160; Madame Roland's letter to
him read in the Council, 164; asks Dumouriez to help rid him of
Roland's faction, 164; refuses to sign the decree against the priests,
169; accepts the resignation of Dumouriez, 169; resists Dumouriez'
entreaties not to veto the decrees, 172; vetoes the decrees, 181;
permits the gate of the Tuileries to be opened to the mob, 195; his
conduct at the invasion of the Tuileries, 199 _et seq._; his reception
of the mob in the Tuileries, 201; addressed by the butcher Legendre,
202; in bodily peril, 203; returns to the bedchamber, 208; letter of,
to the Assembly relative to the invasion of the Tuileries, 223;
interview of, with Petion, 224; incident of the red bonnet, 226;
conversation of, with Bertrand de Molleville, 227; repugnance of, to
Lafayette, 236; address of, to the Assembly, 243; letter of, to the
Assembly, 245; his plastron, 248; takes part in the fete of the
Federation, 249 _et seq._; too timorous and hesitating to act, 257;
nominates a new cabinet, 269; conciliatory message of, to the Assembly,
270; declines to entertain any plan of escape, 273; consents that the
royalist noblemen should defend him, 284; unwarlike character of, 288;
reviews the troops in the Tuileries garden and narrowly escapes from
them, 289; urged by Roederer, goes with his family to the Assembly, 292
_et seq._; his escort, 295; addresses the Assembly, 300; compelled to
remain in the reporters' gallery, 300; orders the defenders of the
Tuileries to cease firing, 305; deposition of, proposed in the
Assembly, 317; acts like a disinterested spectator, 318; taken to the
Convent of the Feuillants, 328; transferred to the Temple, 334, 339;
his quarters, 341; gives lessons to the Dauphin in the Temple, 342:
deprived of his sword, 346; hears the proclamation abolishing royalty
without emotion, 388.
Louvet, the author of _Faublas_, 54; editor of the _Sentinelle_, and
Madame Roland's confidant, 89 _et seq._
Maillard, president of the tribunal at the Abbey, 365.
Mailly, Marshal de, the chief of the two hundred noblemen in the
Tuileries, 284.
Malta, Knights of, 338.
Mandat, M. de, receives from Petion an order to repel force, 280; goes
to the Hotel-de-Ville and is massacred, 281.
Marat incites to the deposition of the king, 270; on Louis XVI., 384.
Marie Antoinette, chivalric devotion of Count de Fersen for, 15; her
correspondence with him, 16; places absolute confidence in Gustavus
III., 17; letter of, to her brother Leopold, 25; condition of, in 1792,
73; has an interview with Dumouriez, 153; annoyed and insulted by the
populace, 156, 157; during the invasion of the Tuileries, 210 _et
seq._; opposed to vigorous measures, 222; her distrust of Lafayette and
preference for Danton, 237; present at the fete of the Federation, 251
_et seq._; her alarm at the King's peril, 253; midnight alarms of, 259;
insulted by federates and forced to keep to her apartments, 261; her
estimate of the King's character, 263; on the night of August 9, 276;
takes refuge in the Assembly, 299; her hopes excited by the sound of
artillery, 304; in the box of the _Logographe_, 321; in the Convent of
the Feuillante, 332; in the Temple, 343; faints when she hears of the
Princesse de Lamballe's death, 356.
_Marseillaise_, the, Rouget de l'Isle's new hymn, 269.
Marseilles, federates of, arrive in Paris, 268; the scum of the jails,
269; at the Tuileries, 290, 306 _et seq._, 309.
Masson, M. Frederic, his description of Dumouriez, 98.
Ministry appointed by the King resign; new, appointed, 176.
Mirabeau cautions the Queen against Lafayette, 236; and Abbe
Lamourette, 241.
Molleville, Bertrand de, conversation of, with the King, 227; quoted,
273.
Monge, senator of the Empire, reply of, to Napoleon, 391.
_Moniteur_, the, on the fete of Chateauvieux, 121.
Mortimer-Ternaux, M., quoted, 279, 282; his _Histoire de la Terreur_,
359.
Mouchy, Marshal de, his devotion to the King and Queen, 220.
Napoleon, a witness of the invasion of the Tuileries, 209; asserts the
King could have gained the victory, 286; a witness of the attack of the
Marseillais on the Tuileries, 310, 314; visits the Temple, and has it
destroyed, 348.
National Assembly, place of meeting of, 5; impeach the King's brothers
and confiscate the _emigres'_ property, 26; impeach De Lessart, 30;
order the King's guard disbanded, 143; decrees of as to the clergy and
an army before Paris, 150; Madame Roland's letter to the King, read to,
167; letter of Lafayette read in the, 178; receive a deputation from
Marseilles, 183; consider the admission of the resurrectionists to the
chamber, 187; the place of meeting of, 188; deputation from, to the
King during the invasion of the Tuileries, 208; question the Queen,
216; maintain an equivocal attitude, 222; the majority of, royalists
and constitutionalists, 272; affect not to recognize the King's danger,
280; send a deputation to receive the King and his family, 296; number
of members present when the decree of deposition was voted, 320;
terrorized by the Commune, 370; royalty abolished and the republic
proclaimed by, 387.
National Guard, at the Tuileries, 196; the choice troops of, broken up,
268; royalist, in the Tuileries, 279, 288.
Noblemen, royalist, fidelity of, to the King, 278, 284; fate of, 322.
Orleans, Duke of, and the Palais Royal, 4; and his party clamor for the
deposition of the King, 270.
Palais Royal, the, in 1792, 4.
Pan, Mallet du, sent to Germany by Louis XVI., 135.
Paris, in 1792, 1; the Archbishop of, at Versailles, in 1774, 78;
Commune of, how organized, 176; a hell during the September massacres,
361.
Petion, address of, to the Assembly, 30; promotes the fete of
Chateauvieux, 115; fate of, 122 _et seq._; favors the insurrectionists,
184; his insolent address to the King, 224; the hero of the fete of the
Federation, 254; presents an address to the Assembly praying for the
King's deposition, 270; signs an order giving M. de Mandat the right to
repel force, 280; his treachery and hypocrisy, 282.
Philipon, the father of Madame Roland, 47.
Prisons of Paris, the September massacres at, 363 _et seq._
Prudhomme's _Revolutions de Paris_ quoted, 225.
Quinet, Edgar, quoted, 360, 371; on Louis XVI.'s magnanimity, 380, 384;
quoted, 392, 394.
Raigecourt, Madame de, letter of, 24.
Ramond defends Lafayette in the Assembly, 235.
Republic proclaimed, 388.
Revolution, beginning of the organization of, 181.
Revolutionists, the, in the Tuileries, 199; insolence of, to the King,
200; refuse to leave the Assembly, 205; their barbarity and indecency,
213.
Robespierre in the Jacobin Club, 5; cowardice of, 271, 316; his defence
of the Constitution, 385.
Rochefoucauld, Count de la, describes the appearance of the royal
family in the box of the _Logographe_, 321.
Roederer, remarks of, on Lafayette, 238; urges the King to seek shelter
with the Assembly, 291, 294; addresses the mob, 297; explains to the
Assembly the cause of King's taking refuge with them, 301; blamed for
his advice, 302.
Roland de la Platiere, M., marries Mademoiselle Philipon, 55; deputed
to the Assembly, 63; takes the portfolio of the Interior, 70; dominated
by his wife, 88; his plebeian dress at the Council, 103; driven by his
wife to hostility against the King, 108; his faction desire to destroy
the King, 160; dismissed from the Council, 165; reinstated, 319; arrest
of, determined, 374; writes a letter to the Assembly concerning the
massacres, 375; continues minister, 376; fate of, 391.
Roland, Madame, the distinctive characteristics of the century resumed
in her, 46; early years of, 47 _et seq._; married to Roland de la
Platiere, 55; strives to obtain a patent of nobility for her husband,
56; letters of, to Bosc, 57; her description of herself, 61, 74; draws
up her husband's reports, 63; her infatuation for Buzot, 64; her hatred
of royalty, 65; established in Paris, 70; and Marie Antoinette, 74; the
motive of her hatred of Marie Antoinette, 76, 80; describes her visit
to Versailles, 77, 79; her part in establishing the republican regime
in France, 79, 107; her judgment of Louis XVI., 81; her character
contrasted with that of Marie Antoinette, 82; her arrogant demeanor,
86; acts for her husband in public affairs, 88; her intimacy with
Louvet, 89 _et seq._; Lemontey's picture of her, 91; and Dumouriez, 94,
102; creates discord in the Council, 106; decides to get rid of
Dumouriez, 159; her letter to the King, 162; her advice on the
dismissal of the ministers, 165; on the September massacres, 362; feels
no pity for the Queen, 372, 375; her horror at the murders, 376; her
apprehensions, 378; reproaches her friends with temporizing, 382; her
last speech, 383.
Rousseau, imprisoned in the Temple, 339.
Saint-Antoine, Faubourg, citizens of, ask permission to assemble in
arms, 182; in commotion, 184.
Saint-Huruge, the rioter, 193.
Salpetriere, the, butchery at, 368.
Santerre, at the head of the insurrectionists on June 20, 186; demands
admission for the insurrectionists to the Assembly, 190; violence of,
at the Tuileries, 197; offers to protect the Queen, 215; forced by
Westermann to march to the Tuileries, 286.
September massacres, the, 359 _et seq._
Sergent, M., 207.
Servan, made Minister of War, 160; proposes the formation of an army
around Paris, 160; dismissed from the Council, 165; his career after
the Revolution, 391.
Stael, Madame de, views the fete of the Federation, her observations,
253; invents a plan of escape for the King, 273; quoted, 317, 327.
Sudermania, Duke of, brother of Gustavus III., practices of, 35.
Sutherland, Lady, sends linen for the Dauphin to the Convent of the
Feuillants, 333.
Swiss regiment, the, go to the Tuileries, 274; ill provided with
ammunition, 277; defend the Tuileries, but are commanded to retire,
307; sweep the Carrousel of rioters, 310; ordered to go to the King,
311; surrender their arms, 313; imprisoned in the church of the
Feuillants, 313; fate of the, 321.
Taine, on revolutionary France, 389.
Temple, the, the royal family taken to, 336; description of, 337; the
Order of the, 337; destroyed by Napoleon, 349.
Thiers, quoted, 287.
Thorwaldsen's lion at Lucerne, 314.
Tourzel, Pauline de, in peril in the Tuileries, 323.
Tuileries, the, guard of, 195; the invasion of, 198 _et seq._; the, on
the night of August 9, 275 _et seq._; attacked by the Marseillais, 306
_et seq._; rioters in, 325; on fire, 325.
Vaublanc, Count de, quoted, 133; anecdotes of, concerning Louis XVI.,
139, 140, 255, 273, 282, 286, 290, 303.
Vergniaud, 180, 182; speech of, with regard to the admission of the
insurrectionists to the Assembly, 188; violent attack of, on the King,
244; as president of the Assembly, receives Louis XVI., 300; presents
the decree suspending the royal power, 317.
"Violet, Queen," 336.
Voltaire, imprisoned in the Temple, 339.
Westermann forces Santerre to march, 286; leader of the Marseillais,
who attacked the Tuileries, 306, 308.