Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of RoyaltyImbert de Saint-Amand
History
Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty
Imbert de Saint-Amand
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
[1] _Ami du Peuple_, No. 429.
[2] _Ami du Peuple_, No. 539.
[3] _La Publiciste de la République_, No. 211.
[4] Edgar Quinet, _La Révolution_, t. 11.
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INDEX.
Abbey prison, the, massacre of the prisoners of, 363.
Ankarstroem, Captain, the assassin of Gustavus III., 37, 41.
Arles, Archbishop of, massacre of, 364.
Assassins, the, of the September massacres, 362 _et seq._; their fate,
370.
Assignats created, 128.
Aubier, M. d', on the King's unwar-like disposition, 288; with the King
in the Convent of the Feuillants, 330.
Barbaroux, visionary schemes of, 271; declares the King might have
maintained himself, 285; anathemas of, on the Septembrists, 381.
Barry, Madame du, her letter to Marie Antoinette, 138.
Beaumarchais compared with Dumouriez, 95.
Belgium, the invasion of, a failure, 136.
Beugnot, Count, his description of Madame Roland, 87, 92; philosophic
remarks of, on woman, 108.
Billaud-Varennes, 246; at the Abbey, 363.
Blanc, M. Louis, quoted, 370.
Bonne-Carrère, director of foreign affairs, portrait of, 101.
Bossuet quoted, 134.
Bouillé, Count de, warns Gustavus III. of the conspiracy against him,
38; his judgment on Gustavus III., 43.
Bouillé, Marquis de, suppresses the insurrection at Nancy, 111, 133.
Brissac, Duke of, his devotion to royalty, 137 _et seq._; intolerable
to the Jacobins, 141; accused in the Assembly, 144; assassinated, 147,
369.
Brunswick, Duke of, his manifesto, 267.
Buzot, Madame Roland's affection for, 64; quoted, 386.
Calvet, M., sent to the Abbey, 144.
Campan, Madame, describes the Queen's emotion on hearing of her
brother's death, 28; her account of Dumouriez' interview with the
Queen, 155; in peril in the Tuileries, 324.
Carmelite church, massacre at, 364.
Chateaubriand, quotation from, 9.
Chateauvieux, the fête of, 110 _et seq._, mutinous soldiers of,
punished, 112; fêted by the Jacobins, 113, 118; admitted to the
Assembly, 117.
Chénier, André, patriotic conduct of, 113, 124; his ode to David, 119;
his fate, 124.
Clavière made Minister of the Finances, 103, 160.
Clootz, Anacharsis, defends the September massacres, 375.
_Comédie-Française_, the, in the Revolution, 10.
Commune, insurrectionary, formed in the Hôtel-de-Ville, 281; refuse to
extinguish the fire at the Tuileries, 325, 335, 345, 355; invites every
commune in France to follow the example of massacre in Paris, 369;
terrorize the Assembly, 370; order the arrest of Roland, 374, 378.
Constitutional Guard, the composition of, 140; disarmed, 145.
Cordeliers, club of the, 7; chiefs of, 7; decide to attack the
Tuileries, 274.
Danjou turns the mob bearing the Princess de Lamballe's head away from
the Temple, 355.
Danton, cowardice of, 271, 316; his bloodthirsty speech to the
Assembly, 361, 374; fate of, 391.
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