Artisans, loss of influence of Church on, 21; their disfranchisement, 22; causes of their discontent, the guild, the octroi, 20; character of before Revolution, numbers, influence of, 19. Assembly, National, _see_ “States General.” Bailly, of the professional class, 24; opposition of Cordeliers to, 82; elected mayor of Paris, 112; resignation of, 152. Barbarian invasions of ninth century, 13. Barentin, de, intimacy with Danton, 51, 60. Barrère, a Bourgeois, 23; his action on first committee with Danton, 220; Report against Robespierre, 305, 306. Bastille, fall of, 73-74; effect of this, 78-80. Battles, of Valmy, 192, 193; of Jemappes, 196; Neerwinden, 208; Turcoing, 293; Fleurus, 298. Belgium, Danton proposes annexation of, 204. Bourgeoisie or middle class, effect of Revolution on, definition of, 22, 23; produces most of the revolutionaries, 23. Brienne, de, client of Danton’s, 51. Brissot, draws up petition of Jacobins, 146; attacked by Desmoulins, 226. Brunswick, Duke of, his manifesto, 161-166; his hesitation, 177. Burning at stake in United States, 5; by Parliament of Strasbourg in 1789, 5. Cahiers, their nature, 62, 63; that of Cordeliers destroyed, 63. Carnot, a Bourgeois, 23; in first Committee of Public Safety, 210; Robespierre’s attack on, 304. Centralisation, of pre-revolutionary France, 10; quality of, 10; before Revolution, examples of, 16; pre-revolutionary fails to raise revenue, 26; used as a practical engine of reform, rapid raising of armies, 28. Charlemagne, marks the end of settled Roman order, 12; Imperial tradition of in France, 15. Charleroy, stronghold of Coburg, 297; captured, 298. Charpentier, his Café des Écoles, 52; his daughter marries Danton, Mlle., _see_ “Wife.” Châtelet, impossibility of reforming it, 7; nature of, 98; issue warrant against Marat, 99; against Danton, 107. Church, its loss of power in villages during eighteenth century, 17; loss of influence over citizens, 21; not main cause of egalitarian feeling in France, 32; intention of making Danton a priest in, 44. Cicé, de, Danton as orator of municipal deputation demands resignation of, 129, 131. Civil constitution of clergy, _see_ “Clergy.” Class system, vigour of, before Revolution, 16. Classes, social, five principal, before Revolution, 16. Clergy, Danton’s defence of, 198; civil constitution of, 118; its vast importance, 119, 120; its details, 121; passes the Assembly, 122; Louis ratifies, 123. Coburg, his position on Sambre, 297; is defeated at Fleurus, 298. Collot d’Herbois, attacked by Danton in Jacobins, 136; beaten by Danton in election for Substitute Procureur, 152.