Paris, the bond of France, 31; cause of headship, effect of Revolution on, 30, 31; head of urban system because seat of monarchy, 33; makes Danton’s career, 58; first elections in, 69; solidarity of, in early Revolution, 70; provisional government during attack on Bastille, 76; organises National Guard, 77; model of municipal movement in France, 79; restriction of suffrage in, 110; restrained by Assembly, 111; Bailly elected mayor of, 112; effect of municipal system on, 114; petitions for dismissal of ministers, 129; effect of king’s flight on, 141; Pétion, elected mayor of, 152; anger at first disasters of war, 158; effect of Brunswick’s manifesto on, 161; ferment on news of invasion, 178; clamours against arrested monarchists, 179; Danton will not oppose, 182; anarchy in, during massacres, 187; elections to the Convention in, 188; eulogy of by Danton, 191; anger against Girondins, 208; conflict of, with Girondins, 217; Isnard’s threats against, 221; used by Committee to expel the Gironde, 223; refuses to rise for Robespierre, 313. Parliament of Paris, nature of, 48. Parliaments (representative), _see_ “States General,” “Legislative,” “Convention.” Peasantry, French, condition of, before Revolution, 17; ownership of land by, before the Revolution, 18; effect of Revolution on, 18. Pétion, elected mayor of Paris, 152; unable to interfere with the massacres, 187; gets some hold on the city at their close, 188; attempt of Danton to get him elected for Paris, 189; named on Committee with Danton, 197. Petition, of municipality against ministers, 109; of Jacobins on king’s flight, 146; of Cordeliers, 147; Pitt, his reforms, 6. Priestley, Danton’s relations with, 149, 204. Procureur, definition of the office in the old regime, 42, 43; of Paris, during Revolution, 153; Danton elected substitute to, 152. Professional class, its character, numbers, constitution, 24. Recordain, stepfather of Danton, 47. Reform, mediæval, continuity of, 3; action of lawyers in preventing failure of, after fifteenth century, 4; Pitt’s attempt at, 6; impossibility on Continent, 7; impossible to French monarchy, 12; its rapidity helped by centralisation, 28. Religious liberty, Danton’s speech in favour of, 243. Republic, not originated by Danton, 140; demanded by Condorcet, 141, 142; declared by Convention, 181.