Elections, of 1789, 52, 53;
small polls at, in 1790 and 1791, 130, 131, 153, 154;
of Mayors of Paris, 165, 190, 193;
to the Legislative Assembly, 153, 154;
to the Convention, 182, 183;
under the Constitution of 1795, 280, 281.
Elégants, the, 264.
Elsinore, sympathy for American Revolution at, 42.
Emigrants, selfish policy of, 159-163, 174, 279;
decrees against, in 1791, 165;
the Reaction and the, 265, 271, 279, 280.
Encylopaedia, the, 33-36.
England, policy of, 194, 277, 278.
Evêché, Section of the, 204.
F.
Fabre d'Églantine, 237, 245.
Fabre d'Hérault, 274.
Farming, system of, before Revolution, 19, 20.
Faubourg St. Antoine, 174, 273.
Fédérés, the, 173, 174, 190.
Fernig, Demoiselles de, 186.
Feudal Privileges, 11, 21, 22;
attacks on, 61, 67.
Feuillants, club of the, 152.
Finance, of the Ancien Régime, 7, 12, 15, 23-25, 45, 48, 49;
of the Constituent Assembly, 87-96;
of the Terror, 266-268.
_See_ Assignats and Taxes.
Fleuriot, 256.
Floréal, 228.
Fouché, 217, 232, 236.
Foulon, murder of, 67.
Fouquier-Tinville, 212, 232, 272.
Fox, 42.
Francis, Emperor, 168.
Frederick the Great, 42.
Frederick William, King of Prussia, 156.
Fréron, 143, 217, 232, 263, 264.
Frimaire, 227.
Fructidor, 228.
G.
Gabelle, the, 24, 25;
abolition of, 94.
Garat, 103, 193, 201, 202, 254.
Gard, District of the, 217.
Gardes Françaises, the, 60, 68.
_Gazette de France_, the, 106, 107.
Geneva, Journalism at, 107.
Genlis, Madame de, 185.
Gensonné, 164, 184.
German Empire, foundation of, ultimately due to the Wars of the
Revolution, 181.
Germinal, 228.
_See_ Insurrection.
Gers, District of the, 217.
Girondists, the, in the Legislative Assembly, 163, 164, 165;
war policy of, 166-168;
attitude of, towards king, 171, 172, 174, 175, 191;
and towards the Prison Massacres, 179;
in the Convention, 183, 184;
principles of, contrasted with those of the Jacobins, 187-189;
struggle of, with the Jacobins, 189-204;
fall of, 204-207;
recall of, 265, 266.
Gorsas, 184.
Gouges, Olympe de, 186.
Goujon, 263, 273.
Gouly, 216.
Grégoire, 103, 143.
Guadet, 164, 184.
Guffroy, 231, 273.
Guilds, monopoly of, in eighteenth century, 17, 18;
suppression of, 45, 46, 95.
Gustavus III, King of Sweden, 156, 160.
Guyardin, 217.
H.
Hague, Treaty of the, 277.
Hanriot, 204, 205, 212, 256, 260.
Haute Loire, District of the, 217.
Hébert, rise of, 143, 178, 190;
attack on, by Girondists, 204;
under the Terror, 212, 222, 227;
character of, 231;
as a journalist, 231, 236;
attack on, by Robespierre and others, 241-245;
fall of, 246.
Helvetius, 35, 110.
Hérault de Séchelles, 208, 214, 241.
Herman, 212.
Hoche, 255, 276, 279.
Holbach, 35.
Holland, invasion of, 194, 277.
Hondschöten, Battle of, 206.
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