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by Will Durant

Corvisart des Marets, Jean-Nicolas (1755–1821), 234, 236, 239, 324–25

  “Cosmopolitan Address” (Wieland), 620–21

  Cottbus, Circle of, 593

  Cottle, Joseph (1770–1853), 409, 424, 429

  Council of Ancients (Les Anciens), 88, 106, 114, 117–18, 159

  and coup of 18th Brumaire, 119, 120–23

  Council of Five Hundred (Les Cinq Cents), 88, 90, 106, 114, 117–18, 159

  and coup of 18th Brumaire, 119, 121–23, 216

  Council of State (Conseil d’État), 161, 162–63, 168, 239, 250

  and Acte Additionel (1814), 742

  and Code Napoléon, 180–82

  and Concordat, 184

  and Jews, 275

  N.’s antimilitarist speech to (1802), 186

  N.’s tirade against Talleyrand in (1809), 231

  Courier, The, 408

  Courland, duchy of, 212, 226

  Cousin, Victor (1792–1867), 331, 657

  Couthon, Georges (1755–94), 60, 69, 70, 72–73, 80

  arrest and death, 82–83

  Covent Garden Theatre, 371, 372, 374, 614

  Cowper, William (1731–1800), 368, 513

  Crabbe, George (1754–1832), 417

  Cramer, Johann Baptist (1771–1858), 571

  Craonne, battle of (1814), 723

  Crétet, Emmanuel (1747–1809), 239

  Crimea, 670, 672, 680, 697

  Crisis, The (Paine), 394

  Critical Latin Grammar, A (John Coleridge), 422

  Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 143, 298, 602, 637

  Croatia, 233

  Croker, John Wilson (1780–1857), 359

  Crome, John (1768–1821), 381

  Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector of England (r. 1653–58), 381

  Crosby, Richard, publisher, 411

  Crowning of Napoleon, The (Cortot), 280

  Curia, 198, 542, 549

  Curiosities of Literature (Isaac Disraeli), 360

  Curran, John Philpot (1750–1817), 511

  Curran, Sarah (fl. 1803), 511

  Custine, Adam-Philippe de (1742–93), 49, 50, 67

  Custine, Delphine de Sabran, Marquise de (1770–1826), 319

  Cuvier, Georges- Léopold- Chrétien (1769–1832), 142, 266, 322, 325–27, 328, 331

  Cyclopoedia (Chambers), 409

  Czartoryski, Prince Adam Jerzy (1770–1861), 678, 680, 687, 732

  Czerny, Karl (1791–1857), 582, 586

  Dalberg, Karl Theodor von (1744–1817), Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, 207, 589, 660

  Dale, David (1739–1806), 347, 348

  Dallas, Robert (1754–1824), 491

  Dalmatia, 733

  Dalrymple, Sir Hew Whitefoord (1750–1830), 536

  Dalton, John (1766–1844), 347, 386, 389–90, 662

  Damas, Roger de (1765–1823), 716

  Dame blanche, La (Boieldieu), 278

  dance, 136, 370

  Dannecker, Johann Heinrich von (1758–1814), 610

  Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), 291, 380, 416, 487

  Danton, Georges-Jacques (1759–94), 40–42;

  antireligion campaign opposed by, 74, 76

  arrest and trial of, 77–78

  in Assembly, 42

  and atheism, 41, 74

  in Committee, 55, 59, 61

  in Convention, 47ff.

  in Cordeliers Club, 34, 40, 59

  death of, 41, 78

  and Desmoulins, 40, 59, 76

  and Fabre, 145

  and Girondins, 41, 48, 49, 56

  and Jacobin Club, 54

  and Louis XVI, 41, 51, 52

  and Marat, 41, 49, 56

  marriage of, 59

  as minister of justice, 40, 41–42, 48

  peace policy of, 48, 55, 59, 75, 77

  Robespierre and, 41, 48, 56, 76–78, 79, 81, 83, 128

  and September Massacres, 41, 45–46

  and Thuriot, 82

  urges end to Terror, 75, 77

  Danube River, 231, 261, 562, 563

  Danzig, 210, 211, 213, 270, 593, 698, 733

  Dardanelles, 201, 458, 676

  “Dark Ladie, The” (Coleridge), 429

  Darmstadt, 516, 612

  Darthé, Augustin-Alexandre (1769–97), 90

  Daru, Pierre-Antoine (1767–1829), 226–27

  Darwin, Charles (1809–92), 324, 327, 329, 391, 397, 403

  Darwin, Erasmus (1731–1802), 391, 440

  Dauphin: son of Louis XV, see Louis de France, Dauphin

  son of Louis XVI, see Louis-Charles de France, Dauphin

  Dauphiné, uprisings in, 22, 44

  David, Jacques-Louis (1748–1825), 16, 140–41, 145, 281–82

  in Convention, 47, 141, 281

  and coronation of N., 198, 281–82

  death of, 282

  designer of festivals, 79, 136, 141

  in Institute, 107, 266

  and Marat, 58, 141

  neoclassicism of, 134–35, 555, 611

  portrait of Mme. Récamier, 273

  statues by, 58, 67, 79

  and Talma, 138

  Davidov, Evgraf (fl. 1827), 684

  Davies, Scrope, 467

  Davout, Louis-Nicolas (1770–1823), 270, 730

  at Auerstedt and Berlin (1806), 209

  at Eckmühl (1809), 231–32

  in 1805 campaign, 202, 203, 204

  in Hundred Days, 742, 751, 752

  in Russian campaign, 699, 704, 708, 710

  Davy, Humphry (1778–1829), 322, 386, 390–91, 440

  Death of Chatham, The (Copley), 380

  Death of Socrates, The (David), 141

  Death of Wolfe (West), 380

  Debrel, Commissioner (fl. 1793), 64

  De Buonaparte et des Bourbons (Chateaubriand), 320

  Décade (deportation ship), 115

  Decembrist rising (1825), 684

  Declaration of Independence (U.S.), 23, 405

  Declaration of the Rights of Man (France, 1789), 23–24, 25, 28, 76

  Bentham and, 404

  and freedom of the press, 23, 86, 128

  and the Jews, 275

  revised, 86

  and rights of woman, 86, 364–65

  Wordsworth and, 419

  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 477

  Decrès, Denis (1762–1820), 165, 230

  Dedham Vale (Constable), 381

  Defence of Poetry (Shelley), 493, 633

  Defence of Usury (Bentham), 405

  Degas, Edgar (1834–1917), 385

  Dego, battle of (1796), 98, 99

  deists, English, 358, 516

  “Dejection” (Coleridge), 433

  Delacroix, Eugène (1798–1863), 155, 282

  De la Littérature (Staël), 289, 290–91

  De l’Allemagne (Staël), 289, 293, 296–99, 300

  Delambre, Jean-Baptiste (1749–1822), 142

  De l’Amour (Destutt), 330

  De l’Esprit (Helvétius), 406

  Delille, Abbé Jacques (1738–1813), 266

  De l’Influence des passions (Staël), 151

  Delia tirannide (Alfieri), 552

  Delmas, Antoine-Guillaume Maurilhac (1766–1813), 185–86

  Delphine (Staël), 148, 289, 292, 293

  Democritus (c. 400 B.C.), 389, 636, 657

  Démophon (Cherubini), 137

  Denmark, 663–67

  allied with France (1813), 717

  capital bombarded (1807), 526, 665

  destruction of fleet of (1801), 178, 521, 546, 664

  literature in, 666–67

  Norway ceded by, 722

  population (1780), 3

  in 2d League of Armed Neutrality, 178, 663–65

  theater in, 665

  Dennewitz, battle of (1813), 718

  Denon, Dominique-Vivant (1747–1825), 114, 279

  De Quincey, Thomas (1785–1859), 392, 417, 448–49

  and Coleridge, 439, 446, 447, 449

  opium addiction of, 392, 439

  Derbyshire, weavers’ re
volt in, 345

  De rerum natura (Lucretius), 467

  Dernières Vues de politique et de finance (Necker), 291

  Desaix de Veygoux, Louis (1768–1800), 170, 173–74, 241, 242, 244

  Desastres de la Guerra, Los (Goya), 224

  Descartes, René (1596–1650), 290, 636

  Descent from the Cross (Rubens), 279

  Description de l’Égypte, 110

  Descriptive Sketches (Wordsworth), 420

  “Deserted Cottage, The” (Wordsworth), 446

  Desmoulins, Camille (1760–94), 5, 47

  arrest, trial, and death of, 77–78

  in Cordeliers Club, 34, 40

  and Danton, 40, 59, 76

  and fall of Bastille, 17–18, 78

  Hébert attacked by, 76

  journals of, 20, 33, 76

  Robespierre and, 77, 83, 128, 424

  Desmoulins, Lucile (d. 1794), 78

  Destutt de Tracy, Antoine-Louis-Claude (1754–1836), 266, 330, 331

  Deux Journées, Les (Cherubini), 137

  Devonshire, Lady Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of (1757–1806), 273

  Devonshire, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of (1748–1811), 353

  Devrient, Ludwig (1784–1832), 615–16

  Deym, Countess Josephine von, 577

  dialectics, 648–52, 655–57

  Dictionnaire, 266

  Dictionnaire philosophique (Voltaire), 470

  Diderot, Denis (1713–84), 6, 35, 41, 143

  and Catherine II, 677, 684

  influence on German thought, 619, 628

  and Romanticism, 139

  his war on religion, 74*, 127

  Didot, Firmin (1764–1836), 145

  Didot, François (1689–1757), 145

  Didot, François-Ambroise (1730–1804), 145

  Didot, Pierre (1761–1853), 145

  Didot, Pierre-François (1732–93), 145

  Dieppe (Turner), 384

  Digte (Oehlenschläger), 666

  Dijon, Museum of, 280

  Dillon, Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount (d. 1813), 761

  Dinan, Collège de, 309

  Dino, Dorothea von Bühren, Duchess of (1792–1862), 226

  Dio Cassius (A.D. 155-C. 240), 227

  Diogenes (Wieland), 227

  Directoire, Consulat, et Empire (Lacroix), 145

  Directory (Directoire; 1795–99), 88–123

  art spoliation by, 102, 115

  arts under, 280, 283

  Bonaparte given reception by, 106–7

  campaigns of, 97–105, 108–14, 116–17, 119, 659

  Campoformio Treaty ratification, 105, 107

  communes under, 163

  and coup of 18th Brumaire (1799), 120–23

  and coup of 18th Fructidor (1797), 106

  decline of, 114–19

  economic conditions under, 89, 118

  government of, 88–89, 106, 117–15, 117, 162, 165

  invasion of England planned by, 107

  Jacobins under, 106, 117–18, 121, 122

  Law of Hostages enacted by, 118

  literature under, 146

  manners under, 134, 136, 271, 272, 369

  monarchists under, 105–6, 126, 332

  morals under, 114–15, 117–19, 130, 132, 269

  Pius VI and, 542, 544

  religion and education under, 127

  press and censorship under, 128–29

  science under, 142

  taxation under, 115, 117–18, 160

  and Mme. de Staël, 115, 288

  women’s position under, 133–34

  Disraeli, Benjamin (1804–81), 360

  Disraeli, Isaac (1766–1848), 360

  Dissenters, 359, 507, 510

  Divine Comedy, The (Dante), 416

  divorce: in England, 364

  in France, 133, 159, 181, 183

  Dix Années d’exil, Les (Staël), 290, 300

  Djezzar Pasha (Ahmed Pasha; 1735?–1804), 113

  Dnieper River, 697, 702, 708

  Dniester River, 670

  Dol, Collège de, 309

  Dombrowski, Jan Henryk (1755–1818), 709

  Donauwörth, 231

  Don Carlos (Schiller), 569, 621–22

  don gratuit, 4

  Dönhoff, Countess Sophie, 594

  Donizetti, Gaetano (1797–1848), 506

  Don Juan (Byron), 454, 455, 458, 479, 487, 489, 494, 497

  Dörnberg, General Wilhelm Caspar Ferdinand (1768–1850), 747

  Dorpat, University of, 680

  Dos de Mayo massacre (1808), 223, 535

  Douai, 24, 372

  Douglas, Charles (fl. 1795), 421

  Douro River, 538

  Drake, British agent in Munich (1804), 190

  drama: in France, 137–39

  in Germany, 616–18

  Dresden, 711

  arts in, 592–93, 610

  battle of (1813), 193, 718

  N. entertains German rulers at, 285, 700

  N.’s headquarters (1813), 716, 717

  patriotic group at, 617

  Dresden, University of, 635

  dress: in England, 368–69

  in France, 134–35, 136, 272

  Drouet, Jean-Baptiste (1763–1824), 31, 90

  Drouet d’Erlon, Comte Jean-Baptiste (1765–1844), 744–45, 746

  Drury Lane Theatre, 371–73, 465

  Dryden, John (1631–1700), 412, 417, 456

  Dublin, 372, 508, 509

  Dublin Castle, 510

  Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255?–1319), 611

  Duchâtel, Deputy (d. 1793), 52

  Duchesnois, Mlle. (Catherine Joséphine Rafin; 1777–1835), 284

  Ducos, Roger (1747–1816), 117, 121, 159, 162

  Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise (1697–1780), 288

  dueling, 130

  Dufour, M. (fl. 1792), 420

  Dumas, Alexandre, père (1802–70), 285

  Dumont, Pierre-Étienne-Louis (1759–1829), 407

  Dumouriez, Charles-Francois (1739–1823), 36, 37

  in Belgium, 49–50

  in Holland, 53–54

  at Valmy, 46

  Dunciad (Pope), 456

  Dunkirk, 189, 522

  duodecimal system, 154

  Du Pape (Maistre), 335–36

  Duphot, Léonard (1769–97), 544

  Duplay, Maurice (fl. 1789), 14, 82

  Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre-Samuel (1739–1817), 13, 34

  Dupuis, Charles-François (1742–1809), 184

  Dürer, Albrecht (1471–1528), 611, 630, 642

  Duroc, Géraud-Christophe-Michel (1772–1813), 244

  Düsseldorf, 220, 600

  Du Tertre, Vicomte Alexandre de, 307

  Dvina River, 697

  East Friesland, 593

  East Mark, 558

  East Prussia, province of, 593, 596, 713

  Ebro River, 225, 531*

  Ecclesiastical Polity, The Laws of (Hooker), 447

  “Ecclesiastical Sonnets” (Wordsworth), 452

  Eckermann, Johann Peter (1792–1854), 623

  Eckmühl, battle of (1809), 231–32

  École de l’Académie Royale, 378

  École de Médecine, 143

  École des Arts et Métiers, 261

  École des Langues Orientales, 266

  École Militaire, Paris, 93

  École Normale, 265

  École Polytechnique, Paris, 87, 128, 265, 322, 724

  Écoles Centrales, 128

  economics, 345–46, 402

  Écouen, girls’ school at, 256

  Edgeworth, Maria (1767–1849), 410

  edicts of fraternity (France, 1792), 50, 516

  Edinburgh, 342, 347, 470

  Edinburgh, University of, 303, 503, 505

  Edinburgh Review, 408, 446, 456, 460, 503

  Edinburgh Theatre, 371

  education: in England, 348–49, 361–63

  in France, 4, 11, 127–28, 142, 159, 264–67

  in Germany, 605–7

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sp; in Italy, 547

  in Russia, 673–74, 680

  Egremont, Sir George O’Brien Wyndham, 3d Earl of (1751–1837), 363, 376, 384

  Egypt, 105, 107, 669

  French conquest and occupation of, 108–11, 115, 169, 170, 670

  given up by France, 179

  N.’s later designs on, 201

  Eichendorff, Joseph von (1788–1857), 628

  18th Brumaire, coup d’état of (1799), 121–23, 159, 179, 216, 304

  18th Fructidor, coup d’état of, 106, 122, 129, 160, 323

  Einige V orlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrtes (Fichte), 638

  Eisenstadt, Hungary, 576

  Ekaterinoslav, 680

  Ekenhead, Lieut. William (fl. 1810), 458

  El ‘Arish, 112

  Convention of, 170

  Elba, 177, 726

  N.’s exile at, 734–35

  Elbe River, 592–93, 596, 600

  blockaded, 210, 295

  French at, 711, 715

  Elective Affinities (Goethe), 623

  electricity, 322, 387, 551–52, 608, 662

  electrochemistry, 322, 390

  electromagnetism, 665

  Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Gray), 146, 416

  Éléments d’idéologie (Destutt), 330

  Elements of Political Economy (James Mill), 504

  Elgin, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of (1766–1814), 377

  Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans; 1819–80), 506

  Élisabeth de France, Madame (1764–94), sister of Louis XVI, 19, 25, 50, 65, 66

  Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (r. 1558–1603), 374, 408, 451, 467

  Elizaveta Alekseevna (Luise Elisabeth of Baden-Durlach), Czarina, 677, 678, 681

  Elster River, 719

  Emancipation Proclamation (U.S., 1863), 679

  Embaba, 110

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803–82), 451

  émigrés, 19, 22, 25

  army of at Coblenz, 36, 312, 561

  art and, 139

  and Brunswick’s manifesto, 39

  and Convention, 47, 64–65

  in England, 150, 312–14, 360

  and “great conspiracy” against N., 190–91

  in invasion of France, 44

  Quiberon landing of, 85

  return of, 105, 126, 136, 177, 214, 270

  Émile (Rousseau), 79, 629

  Emma (Austen), 411

  Emmet, Robert (1778–1803), 510

  Emmet, Thomas Addis (1764–1827), 510

  Empire style, 281

  enclosure of common lands, 7, 340–41, 342

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 403, 409, 503–4

  Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (Hegel), 647

  Encyclopédie, 41, 51

  Encyclopedists, 394, 534

  Endymion (Keats), 485

  Engels, Friedrich (1820–95), 329

  Enghien, Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, Duc d’ (1772–1804), 191–92, 231, 319, 321, 686

  England (Great Britain), 339–527

  agriculture in, 341

  the arts in, 376–85

  classes in, 343, 352–54

 

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