proposed rectification of her western frontier, 407; outwits _N._, 412, 424; iv. i, 13; gathers troops in Bohemia, iii. 413-414; the allies' reliance on, 415; fear of _N._, 415; Nesselrode demands her adherence to the coalition, 415; aggrandizement by royal marriages, 416; to be pledged never to side with France, 415; proposed enlargement of, 416; secret treaty of Reichenbach, 415, 418, 422; throws off the mask of mediator, 419; duplicity of, 419; regeneration of, 419; seeks to regain ascendancy in Germany and Italy, 423; _N.'s_ agents in, 422; _N._ attempts to bribe, 423, 424; declares war, 423; Hamburg and Triest offered to, 424; takes the lead among the allies, iv. 6; strength, 6; _N._ seeks alliance with, 13, 17; saved by Schwarzenberg from invasion, 18; _N._ offers terms to, 21; scheme to restore status of 1805, 22; concludes alliance of Sept. 9, 1813, 22; seeks to regain predominance in Italy, 30; rise of her Prussian rival, 37; desires peace, 41; demands Italian territory, 41; at the Congress at Frankfort, 41; troops on the Rhine, 54-56; forms alliance with Murat, 56; the Czar's designs to check, 67; violates Swiss neutrality, 68; suspicious slowness of her movements, 68; eager for an armistice, 70, 71, 75; _N._ endeavors to separate Russia from, 75; treaty of Chaumont, 76; the triple alliance, 76; attitude toward _N._, 89; _N.'s_ dread of capture of the Empress by, 91; party to the treaty of Fontainebleau (April, 1814), 133; weight of her yoke in Italy, 143; negotiates secret treaty with England and France, 145; invited to take part in the coronation of the King of Rome, 157; member of the Vienna Coalition, 164; quota of troops, 164; refuses help to France, 165; the campaign of the Hundred Days, 170 et seq.; claims the glory of annihilating _N._, 214; claims the right of overseeing the imprisonment of _N._, 215; loss of Italian territory, 300. =Austria-Hungary=, the rise of, iv, 299, 300. =Austrian Netherlands, the=, defeat of the French in, i. 172; the revolutionary spirit in, 187; Dumouriez's successes in, 194; French conquest, of, 273; surrendered to France, ii. 21. _See also_ =Belgium=. =Autun=, _N._ at, i. 30, 46, 48-50; iv. 157; the Buonapartes at, i. 46; Talleyrand bishop of, ii. 33. =Auxerre=, military movements near, iv. 60; Imperial forces at, 102; Ney rejoins _N._ at, 157. =Auxonne=, _N._ at, i. 94, 96, 111, 112, 141, 144-147, 223; disturbances in, 111, 112, 152; _N._ seeks to be retained at, 149.