Nothing could more clearly show the character of the government under the _ancien régime:_ it was wholly dependent on traditions. Nowhere was there a concrete organization to secure the maintenance of order and the enforcement of the king's decrees. France was a federation of innumerable republics, held together by a single bond, the sentiment of loyalty every citizen felt towards the crown. One puff of wind sent the crown flying, and then disorder and panic bewilderment dominated the whole nation. The door was open to all excesses, and the means of checking them miserably failed. Under the _ancien régime_, devotion to the king was the whole government, the whole administration, the whole life of the state. And thus arose the necessity for the domination of the Terror, and the legislative work of Napoleon. THE END. INDEX Allègre, Latude's fellow prisoner, 154, 185-192, 217. Ameilhon, city librarian, 55. Argenson, D', 60, 72, 95, 175, 182. Arsenal library, 55, 56. Atrocities of the mob, 258-266. Avedick, Armenian patriarch, 133. Barras, 272. Bastille, its situation, 47; appearance, 48; repute, 49, 50; archives, 50-56; origin, 57; site, 58; construction, 59, 60; additions to, 61; appearance in later days, 61, 62; early uses, 63; becomes state prison, 63, 64; prisoners, 65; its administration, 66; gradual transformation, 67; character of prisoners, 68, 69; secretary, 70; office of lieutenant of police, 71; his duties, 71, 72; becomes like modern prisons, 77, 78; abolition of torture, 78; duration of prisoners' detention, 80; expenses, 81; plans for altering, 81-83; a _prison de luxe_, 85; treatment of prisoners, 86; the rooms, 87; manner of prisoners' entrance, 88, 89; cells, 92, 93; tower rooms, 93, 94; furniture, 95, 96; examination of prisoners, 96, 97; indemnified if innocent, 98, 99; allowed companions, 100, 101; prison fare, 102-107; clothes, 107, 108; books, 108, 109; exercise, 109; diversions, 109, 110; funerals, 110, 111; liberation, 111, 112; the Iron Mask, 114-146; men of letters, 147-165; capture, 238-272. Berryer, 175, 176, 178, 184, 188, 189, 193. Besmaus, de, 70. Binguet, 171, 179. Bread riots, 242, 243. Breteuil, 78, 248. Brigands, 241, 245, 250. Burgaud, 135. Campan, Madame de, 144, 145. Carutti's theory of Iron Mask, 134. Cellamare conspiracy, 72, 73. Character of French government and society, 239-241. Chevalier, major, 49, 51, 120, 121, 187, 189, 194. Citizen militia, 251-253. Clothes of prisoners, 107, 108. Crosne, de, lieutenant of police, 244-246. D'Aubrespy, Jeanneton, 169, 201. Dauger suggested as Iron Mask, 135. Desmoulins, 247, 249. Diderot, 165. Diversions of prisoners, 109, 110. Du Junca's journal, 69, 89, 90, 114-116, 122. Dusaulx, 51. Encyclopædia, 80. Estrades, Abbé d', 138-142. Food of prisoners, 102-107. Funerals, 110. Games of prisoners, 101, 102. Gleichen, baron, 130.