Constituent Assembly, constituted, 57;
character of, 64;
early history of, 65-72;
jealous of executive, 71-74;
new system of Local Government, 75-79;
judicial reforms, 79, 80;
passion for electoral contrivances, 74, 75, 79, 82, 83, 85;
military reforms, 80-83;
church reforms, 83-87;
confiscation of church property, 84, 90;
finance, 87-96;
parties in, 98-105;
close of, 153.
Constitution, of 1791, 71-87, 131, 132, 152-154, 278;
of 1793, 208-210, 271;
of 1795, 279-281.
Constitutional Party, the, 135, 150-154.
Contrat Social, doctrine of the, 39-41, 137-140.
Convention, meeting of, 182;
early parties in, 183, 186-190;
demoralisation of, 192;
decrees of, early in 1793, 195, 196-198;
defeat of Girondists in, 201-205;
the rule of the Jacobins in, 208-235;
reforms of, 210, 211;
representatives of, on mission, 215-217;
Jacobin schisms in, 236-260;
struggle with the Commune, 237, 242-246;
struggle with Robespierre, 259, 260;
reaction in, 261-273;
finance of, 218-223, 266-270;
close of, 279-281.
Corday, Charlotte, 186, 206.
Cordeliers Club, 105, 150, 236, 246.
Corvée, the, 22, 45.
Côte-d'Or, the Terror in the, 217.
Council, of the King at Versailles, 7;
of the Ancients and of the Five Hundred, 279-281.
_Courrier de Provence_, Mirabeau's paper, 107.
Couthon, 213, 214, 217, 241, 255.
Custine, 255.
D.
D'Alembert, 34.
Danton, rise of, 105, 143;
in July, 1791, 150, 151;
protests against war, 167;
on the 20th June, 172;
on the overthrow of the Monarchy, 175-180;
views on the September Massacres, 179;
elected to Convention, 182;
policy in Legislative Assembly, 193-201;
during the Terror, 237-241;
final struggle and fall, 242-248.
Dartigoyte, 217, 231.
Dauphin, death of the, 278.
Dauphiné, popular movement in, 50, 100.
Davoût, 274.
De Lessart, 166.
Departments, created by Constituent Assembly, 75;
under Constitution of 1795, 280.
D'Eprémesnil, 99.
Desfieux, 237.
Desmoulins, Camille, rise of, 109, 143;
attacks the Terror, 237-244;
arrest of, 247;
Lucile, 185-186.
Diderot, 31, 34.
Dijon, rising in, 61.
Directory, establishment of, 279-282.
Districts, division of France into, 75,
abolished, 280.
Dom Gerle, 103.
D'Ormesson, 190.
Drouet, 274.
Dubarry, Madame, execution of, 207.
Dubois-Crancé, 275.
Dumont, André, 216, 263.
Dumouriez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 167-171;
Lafayette and, 171;
wins the battles of Valmy and Jemappes, 180;
defeat of, at Neerwinden, 194;
desertion of, to Austrians, 195.
Duport, 104, 106, 113.
Dutard, reports of, 202-204.
E.
Economists, the, 36.
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