gives up going to theatres, and goes to political clubs, 142, 143; her words concerning Jacobins, 143; her esteem for Brissot, 145; her comments on the discussions of patriots that gathered at her house, 146–148; her words on the necessity of uniting efforts, 148, 149; her supremacy over group of patriots around her, 149, 150; her inflexibility, 150; her personal charms, 150–152; the portraits of, 152–154; her joy at the flight of the King, 156, 157; her words on the return of the King, 158; endeavors to secure a trial of the King, 161, 162; she loses heart, and returns from Paris to Villefranche, 164; her disgust with Lyons, 165; her disappointment in her child, 166; decides to return to Paris, 166, 167; her ideal of government unsatisfied, 169, 170; her supreme confidence in herself, 170; considered herself better than her husband, 170; her feeling against the old régime, 170; her attitude on her return to Paris, 176, 177; her life and habits after her husband entered the Ministry of the Interior, 179, 180; her influence in choosing persons for positions in the department, 180, 181; her mistrust of General Dumouriez and others, 181, 182; doubts the good faith of the King, 183; her measures to meet perils threatening Paris, 188 _et seq._; she writes letter to the King concerning the perils, 190; persuades her husband to publish the letter to the King, 197, 198; meets Barbaroux, 201, 202; her plan carried, 210; her antipathy to Danton, 214–217; her words concerning Robespierre, Marat, and Danton, 221, 222; her disgust at the brutal turn of affairs in the Revolution, 222; attacked by Marat, 222, 223; would not compromise with the insurrectionary force, 223, 225; her passion for Buzot, 224, 225, 227–244; her first interest in Buzot, 227, 228; her correspondence with Buzot, 228–230; her disillusionment in regard to the Revolution, 230, 231; her hope in Buzot, 231; attracted by Buzot’s personal charms, 231, 232; the waning of her affection for her husband and of her friendship with Bosc, Lanthenas, and Bancal, 233; her notions of duty and devotion, 234; her relations with various friends during her life, 235–241; influenced by the “new ideas” of love and marriage, she accepts the love of Buzot, 242, 243; she tells her husband of her love for Buzot, 243; her relations to her husband thereafter, 244; Danton’s words concerning, 245; holds her place in the struggle, 251; abused by Marat, 252; her position compared with that of Marie Antoinette, 252; appears before the Convention, 253; danger to her life, 253, 254; attempts to leave Paris, but falls ill, 258; her vain endeavor to reach the Convention to plead her husband’s cause, 259–261; put under arrest, 261, 262; her imprisonment in the Abbaye and Sainte Pélagie, 264, 265;