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The Oxford History of the French Revolution

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by William Doyle


  Reggio 361

  Reichenbach, Convention of (1790) 164, 303

  religion dechristianization 259–64, 267, 277

  in occupied Belgium 350

  Rousseau’s criticism of 53

  Supreme Being cult 277–8

  Thermidor policy 290

  religious emancipation 411–13

  remonstrances 37, 38, 39, 56, 63, 70, 81

  Rennes 5, 38, 83, 92, 94, 113, 240, 248, 257

  rents 11, 403

  representatives on mission (from the Convention) 227, 228, 230, 237, 240, 242, 243, 248, 254, 258, 259, 263–4, 267, 293

  republicanism 63, 64, 152, 153, 193 in Austria 211

  Church and 400

  fashionable Roman 420

  petition against king’s reinstatement 153–4

  Poland 207–9

  in Spain 210

  Reubell, Jean François (1747–1807) 322, 330, 331, 352, 355, 372, 413

  Reveillon (wallpaper manufacturer) 20, 98

  Revolution Club (Paris) 142

  Revolution Society 169

  Revolutionary Armies 244, 271 Paris 244, 251, 252, 254, 258, 260–1

  provinces 258, 263, 264

  revolutionary committees 113

  Revolutionary Tribunal 228, 230, 276, 283, 294

  Revolutionary Wars 180, 197–219, 247, 340–1, 375–6, 380–1, 417 destruction of overseas trade 405–6

  occupied territories 342–70

  peace of Amiens 382–3

  Rhine 197

  Rhinelands 199, 202, 209, 210, 215, 217, 339, 375, 381 annexation of 352–3

  Rhône 7–8, 182, 183, 239, 287, 294

  Richer, Edmond (1559–1631) 141

  right-wing politics 424–5

  riots bread 1, 21–2, 58, 109, 122

  against conscription 229

  grain 121, 181–2

  market-day 98

  over Brienne’s reforms 83

  Paris 98–9, 223, 229

  sectarian 138

  Rivoli 214

  roads 393

  Robespierre, Maximilien (1758–94) 191, 202, 222, 228, 420, 422 advocating moderation 252, 262, 267, 268

  arrest and execution 281–3

  call for direct action 188

  Committee of Public Safety 246

  defence of Danton’s arrest 275, 276

  deputy 101, 120

  dominance of Jacobins 150–1

  early career 25

  first foray into politics 95

  obsession with corruption 273–4, 280

  petition against king’s reinstatement 154

  as public accuser 176

  purge of the Convention 234

  on putting king on trial 194–5

  republican religion and virtue 277–8

  September Massacres 192

  against war 178, 180

  Rohan, Édouard, Cardinal de (1734–1803) 60

  Roland, Jean-Marie (1734–93) 14, 27, 180, 185, 221, 222, 231, 235, 236, 253

  Roland, Mme Manon Philipon (1754–93) 221, 235, 253, 422

  Roman law 4

  Roman Republic 363, 364

  Rome 339, 340

  Ronsin, Henri (1752–94) 252, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271

  Rossignol, General (sansculotte) 247, 256

  Rouen 113, 393, 406

  Rouget de Lisle, Jean Claude (1760–1836) 183, 187

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78) 48, 52–3, 56, 235, 277, 279, 284, 388, 420

  Roussillon 210

  Roux, Jacques (d. 1794) 185, 223, 237, 245, 250, 252, 261, 292

  Rowan, Hamilton (1751–1834) 282

  royal mistresses 42

  Royal Navy 247, 256, 340 in Mediterranean 342

  mutiny 216

  Naples 365, 367

  press-gangs 418

  supremacy of 380, 415

  royalism 226, 275, 309–10, 322, 330, 336

  counter-terror 293

  encouraged by Jacobin rout 328–9

  Fructidor coup 332

  Toulouse 375

  Rue du Bac Club 337

  Ruffo, Fabrizio, Cardinal (1724–1827) 366

  Ruhl, Philippe Jacques (d. 1795) 260

  Russia 160, 165–6, 172, 198, 204, 207, 208, 369, 416 alliance with France 382

  Dutch Republic 372, 373, 378–9

  Lombardy 365

  nationalism 419

  support for counter-revolution 308

  in Switzerland 375

  war with France 340

  sacrilege 109, 363, 368

  Saint-Cloud 148, 377

  Saint-Domingue 13, 151, 181, 210 abolition of slavery 413–14

  British protection 212

  Saint-Huruge, Marquis de (d. 1820) 120

  Saint-Just, Louis de (1767–94) 194, 252, 266, 270, 275, 278, 281–2, 420

  Saint Vincent, cape 216

  salaries 143

  saltpetre 205

  ‘Sanfedist’ army 366

  sansculottes (ordinary patriots) 426 admitted to sectional assemblies 187

  anti-revolutionary 408–9

  Convention and 220

  end as political force 270–1

  food shortage priority 245

  guarantees of cheap bread 403

  Marat’s acquittal 228

  massacres carried out by 191–2

  Prairial uprising 295–6

  purging Girondins 237

  purging the Convention 234

  retarding cause of mass democracy 420

  in Revolutionary Army 244

  self-styled 336

  during the Terror 251–2

  Tuileries invasion 186

  Santerre, Antoine Joseph (1752–1809) 220, 223, 232, 234

  Sardinia 147, 202, 210, 213, 367, 416

  Saumur 232, 247, 256

  Savary, Jacques 23

  Savenay 256–7, 290, 310

  Savoy 197, 201, 213, 231, 416

  Scaevola, Quintus Mucius 420

  Schérer, Barthélemy (1747–1804) 374

  Schiller, Friedrich (1759–1805) 160

  Schönbrunn 44

  science 49, 65

  Scotland 212, 418

  scrofula 1, 294

  sectarianism 301, 342

  Ségur, Louis Philippe, Count de (1753–1830) 29

  Ségur Ordinance 27, 29, 31

  seigneurialism 129, 130

  Senate 379, 391, 392

  separation of powers principle 123, 125, 244, 264

  serfdom, see feudalism; peasants

  Servan, Joseph (1741–1808) 184, 185, 186

  Seven Years War 57, 59, 63, 66

  Seychelles 385

  Sèze, Raymond de (1748–1828) 195

  sharecropping contracts (métayage) 9–10, 12

  Sheffield Constitutional Society 170

  Sicily 340

  Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph (1748–1836) Brumaire coup 376–7

  as deputy 101, 103, 104, 120

  as Director 322, 372–3, 375–6

  disgruntled with proposed legislation 391

  pamphlets 90, 94

  problem of elections 377–8, 379

  silk industry 8, 13, 19, 231, 404, 406

  silver-mark taxation 124, 155–6, 174

  slavery 151 abolished 413–14

  restored by First Consul 415

  trade 5, 13

  uprising 181, 212, 405

  Smollett, Tobias (1721–71) 29

  smuggling 15

  soap 223, 245

  Social Circle 153, 154

  Society of the Friends of the Constitution, see Jacobins

  Society of Thirty 90, 95, 99, 396

  Sonthonax, Léger Félicité (1763–1813) 414

  sovereignty Equals 327

  national 118, 378, 418, 419

  National Assembly 105, 111

  Spain 164, 171–2, 202, 203, 210, 218, 294, 416 Caribbean 414

  Louisiana 382

  peace with France 215

  shared occupation of Toulon 310

  specie 324

 
; Staël, Germaine Necker, Mme de (1766–1817) 422

  stamp duty 76, 78

  Stanislav, king of Poland (1732–98) 198

  stock market 84–5

  Stofflet, Jean-Nicholas (1761–96) 226, 256, 290, 316

  Strasbourg 113

  Strogonov, Paul Alexandrovich, Count (1772–1817) 160 (AU: Found as Stroganov)

  subscription libraries 47

  sugar 181, 223

  suicides 288, 295

  Supreme Being cult 277, 289

  Suvorov, Alexander (1729–1800) 208, 369, 381

  Sweden 160, 165, 171, 172, 197

  Swiss Confederation 339, 355–7

  Swiss Guards 31, 189, 355–6, 394

  Switzerland 161, 303, 375, 381, 415

  taille 4, 27, 131

  Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de (1754–1838) 34, 71, 90 Brumaire coup 376, 377

  Concordat 389

  as foreign minister 333

  nationalization of ecclesiastical property 132

  oath of the clergy 144, 145

  Tallien, Jean Lambert (1767–1820) 249, 255, 264, 279, 280, 281, 283, 284, 285

  Tallien, Mme 422

  Tarascon 142

  Target, Guy Jean Baptiste (1733–1807) 90, 101, 105

  Targowica confederation 198, 207

  tax-evasion 130–1

  taxation 40–1, 57, 288, 334 burden of 418

  Calonne’s plan for reform of 68–71

  clerical 33–4, 36

  direct 131

  émigrés triple 156

  increases in 309

  luxuries 402

  pre-Revolutionary 4, 11, 17

  privileges 27

  reform 62

  regular collection system 386

  reintroduction of indirect 335

  Royal Session proposal 106

  silver-mark 124, 154, 174

  worthless paper money 324

  teaching orders 401

  Tennis Court Oath 105–6, 179

  Terray, Joseph-Marie, Abbé (1715–78) 59

  territorial mandates (mandats territoriaux) 324–5, 336

  Terror 426 clergy executed during 399

  dechristianization 259–64

  nobles executed during 398

  in Paris 251–3

  peasant victims of 408

  in provinces 253–9

  in the provinces 294

  Revolutionary Tribunal 276

  textile industry 12, 87, 406

  textile printing 20

  Theophilanthropy 336, 412

  third estate 88–9, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100–1, 102, 106–7

  Thouars 232

  Thugut, Franz Maria, Baron von (1736–1818) 204, 209, 217, 375, 381

  Thuriot, Jacques Alexis (1753–1829) 278, 279

  tithes 11, 34, 35–6, 97, 114, 115, 117, 137, 145, 354, 398, 403

  title-deeds 130

  tobacco workers 277

  token money rent (cens) 11

  Tolentino 215, 361, 363

  toll-gates 109

  Tone, Theobald Wolfe (1763–98) 169, 213, 215, 324, 326, 343, 344, 345, 423

  Torfou 256

  torture 56

  Toulon 203, 206 British in 310, 315

  fall of 249, 254–5, 310

  Toulouse 7, 126, 239, 375

  Tourcoing, battle of (1793) 206

  tourists 393–4, 403

  Toussaint L’Ouverture (1746–1803) 414, 415

  trade 23–4, 29, 69 competition with Britain 417

  customs offices 354

  overseas 13

  war damaging 405–6

  trade routes 5, 6, 11, 13

  Treilhard, Jean Baptiste (1742–1810) 227, 372

  trespass 128

  Tribun du people (Jacobin newspaper) 325–6, 327 (AU: Found as “Tribun du peuple”)

  Tribunate 379, 391, 392

  tricolour 112, 207, 393, 423

  Trier 177, 178, 354

  triumvirs 331, 332

  Trotsky, Leon (1879–1940) 424

  Tulle 142

  Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, Baron deL’Aulne (1727–81) 21, 60, 61, 66

  Turin 146, 147, 300, 301, 304, 367

  Turkish war 164, 165

  Turreau, Louis-Marie (1756–1816) 257, 290

  Tuscany 367, 382

  Tuscany, grand duke of 211

  Two Acts (1794) 213

  Two Thirds Law 320, 378

  Ulster 342, 343

  unemployment 14, 404, 405 Dutch Republic 348

  Paris 148–9

  unicameralism 320

  Unigenitus 54

  United Irishmen 213, 216, 342–4

  universities 401

  urban growth 18

  Vadier, Marc Guillaume Alexis (1736–1828) 274, 280, 284, 289, 292

  vagabonds 114

  Valmy, battle of (1792) 192, 197, 307, 416

  Van der Noot, Heintje (1731–1827) 162, 163, 164

  Vancouver Island 164

  Varennes 151–3, 302, 305

  Varlet, Jean François (1764–1832) 224, 227, 233, 234, 237, 245, 252

  Vaud 355–6

  Vendée 5, 175, 224, 248, 290–1

  Vendée revolt 202, 204, 215, 232, 234, 309, 317 British support for 310, 314

  march on Granville 256, 310, 318

  suppression of 256–7, 316

  Vendémiaire, uprising of 321–2

  Vendôme trials 327, 331, 337

  Venetia 362, 382

  Venice 214, 217, 317, 361, 362, 415

  Verdun, battle of (1792) 191

  Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Count de (1717–87) 63, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 78, 159

  Vergniaud, Pierre Victurnien (1753–93) 178, 188, 189, 221, 238, 253

  Verona 362

  Verona, Declaration of 298, 318

  Versailles 41, 44, 394, 403 unruly crowds at 103

  women march to 121–2

  vestry fees 116

  vetos 119–20, 123, 155, 176, 177

  Victor Amadeus III, king (1773–95) 213, 299, 301, 357

  Vienna 214

  Villèle, Joseph, Count de (1773–1854) 398

  Vilno 207

  Vincent (secretary general of the war ministry) 268, 269, 270

  Vinegar Hill, battle of 343

  vineyards 6, 8

  vingtième 33, 38, 68, 69, 71, 75, 78, 80, 81, 131

  Volney, Constantin Frédéric de Chasseboeuf, Count de (1757–1820) 95

  Voltaire, François Marie Arouet (1694–1778) 7, 49–50, 55, 56, 65, 222, 413

  Vonck, Jan-Frans (1743–92) 162, 163

  voting rights 320, 378, 379

  wages 20, 265 control 277, 282, 287

  Walpole, Horace (1717–97) 54

  Warsaw 207, 208

  Washington, George (1732–99) 72

  watch committees 227, 251, 266, 271, 283, 286

  watchmen 36

  Wattignies, battle of (1793) 204

  wealth gap 23

  weather 86–7, 115, 287

  Weimar, Duke of 193

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesly, Duke of (1769–1852) 417

  West Indies 203, 210, 212, 223, 315

  Westermann, François-Joseph (1751–94) 256

  Westphalia, Peace of 200

  Whigs 161, 166, 167, 201, 212

  White Terror 293, 316, 328, 412

  Wickham, William (1761–1840) 328

  Wieland, Christoff-Martin (1733–1813) 160

  William V, Stadtholder of Orange (1748–1806) 75, 159, 161, 209, 344, 347, 348, 383

  Wimpffen, Louis-Félix de (1744–1814) 241, 310

  wine crop 12

  women exclusion from active citizens category 124

  importance to the Revolution 421–2

  market 122, 148, 223, 231, 245, 291, 320–21

  workhouses 15

  writers 25, 51–3

  York, Frederick Augustus, Duke of (1763–1827) 204, 209, 211

  Young, Arthur 5, 9, 10, 11, 14, 23, 32, 41, 77, 104, 107, 108, 113, 393, 394

  Ysabeau
, Claude Alexandre (1754–1831) 255

 

 

 


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