Church, jealousy of local Parlements towards, 6;
relations of, to State under Ancien Régime, 6, 15;
privileges and dignitaries of, 15, 16;
poverty of parish priests in, 16;
tyranny of, 28, 33;
attack on by Encyclopaedists, 33, 34;
property of, declared to belong to the nation, 83, 84;
reorganisation of, by Constituent Assembly, 84-87;
sale of lands of, 90, 132, 133, 140;
disorder caused by attack on, 141;
attitude of Legislative Assembly towards, 165;
attitude of Convention towards, 265.
Civil Code, the, 211.
Civil Constitution of Clergy, the, 84-87.
_See_ Church.
Classical spirit, influence of the, 29.
Clermont-Tonnerre, Comte de, 100, 126.
Clootz, Anacharsis, 143, 236.
Club, des Impartiaux, 106;
Monarchique, 106;
of 1789, 106;
Feuillant, 152;
clubs prohibited by Convention, 280.
_See_ Cordeliers _and_ Jacobin Club.
Coblentz, emigrants at, 161.
Coffinhal, 212.
Collot d'Herbois, among the Jacobin leaders, 143;
elected to Convention, 182;
at Lyons, 217, 232, 241;
in the Committee of Public Safety, 214, 215, 234, 236, 240, 244, 246;
retirement of, 262;
fall of, 265, 271.
Commission of Twelve, appointed, 201;
cancelled, 205.
Committee of General Security, appointed by Convention, 195;
functions of, 212;
Commune and, 236.
Committee of Public Safety, appointed by Convention, 195;
powers and members of, 212-215;
Convention and, 236, 242, 244, 246;
Danton and, 245-247;
Robespierre and, 255, 259;
remodelled in 1794, 262.
Committees of the Convention, work of, 210, 211.
Committees, Revolutionary, in Sections of Paris, 200, 212, 262;
in the provinces, 213.
Commune of Paris, organisation of, 145;
Sections of, 145-147;
Insurrectionary Commune of the 10th August, 174-178;
its attitude towards the September Massacres, 178, 179;
its leaders elected to the Convention, 182, 183;
its dissolution, 189, 190;
the Jacobins regain control of, 193;
action of, in 1793, 197, 199, 202;
Insurrectionary Commune of the 31st May, 204, 205;
power of, under the Terror, 212, 218, 227, 229, 231, 236, 237, 241;
reaction against, 240-245;
fall of, 245, 246;
supports Robespierre, 255, 259, 260;
abolition of, 262.
Compagnies de Jésus, 272.
Compagnies du Sol, 272.
Comptroller-General, powers of, 7, 9, 10.
Condé, Fortress of, taken by the Allies, 205;
Prince of, at Worms, 161.
Condorcet, Madame de, 185, 186;
Marquis de, 184, 193.
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