Revolution, French, nature of, 1, 2; necessity for, on Continent, 7; its violence, 8; questions raised by, 9; material causes of, 10; main causes not economic, 11; classes it dealt with, 16; it revives religion in villages, 17; effect on peasantry, 18; on artisans, 19, 20, 21; on Bourgeois, 22; on professionals and nobles, 24; theory of, 26; effect of Rousseau on, 28, 29; place of Paris in, 30; summary of politics at outset of, 34; its task, the re-creation of France, 35; two periods of, 117, 118; transformation of, in 1790, 114, 123; summary of its results, 314-318. Revolutionary Tribunal, created by Danton, 208; Marat acquitted by, 218; Hébert tried by, 245; Danton tried by, 249-272; enslaved by Robespierre, 295. Robespierre, a Bourgeois, 23; age of, 40; effect of education on, 46; joins Committee of Public Safety, 234; his position in winter of 1793, clash with Danton, 241; last interview with Danton, 247; speaks against Danton in Convention, 253; demonstration of condemned before his house, 276; his character, 285; his aims, 286; his misreading of Rousseau, 287; causes of his ascendency, 288-290; abandons Danton’s diplomacy, 292; heads feast of Supreme Being, 294; proposes virtual abolition of trials, 295; destroys independence of Convention, 296; attacks Mountain, 300; abandoned by Committee, 301; causes of his fall, 302-304; his last speech, 306-307; outlawed by Convention, 309-310; his last rally and execution, 310-314. Roland, a professional, 24; Danton’s power over, in August 1792, interview with, in garden of ministry, 180-181; calls on Santerre to stop the massacres, 187; prosecuted, 222. —— Madame, her hatred for Danton, 176; she rejects his overtures to Girondins, 196. Roman Law, its fundamental ideas of ownership and sovereignty, 14; suited to France, 15; not main cause of egalitarian feeling in France, 32. Rome, transformation of her system in ninth century, 12; the origin of French urban system, 32. Rousseau, his effect on France, 28, 29; his genius and deficiencies, 29; his faith the source of his power, essentially a reactionary, 29, 30; Robespierre’s view of his system, 286, 287. Rousselin, our authority for Danton’s boyhood, 46. Saint Just, age of, compared with Danton, 40; joins great Committee, 229; report on Girondins, 234; speech against Danton, 254-255; second speech against Danton, 270; proposal for bringing prisoners to Paris, 292; with army on Sambre, 297; fails to warn Robespierre, 299; outlawed with Robespierre, 310; joins Robespierre at Hotel de Ville, 312. St. Priest, his dismissal demanded by Paris, 128-131.