unskillfulness of;
  shows much deficiency in military tactics;
  appears before the Assembly, and
  narrowly escapes impeachment;
  proposes a plan for the royal family to escape;
  flies from France, and is thrown into an Austrian prison. 
Lamballe, Princess de. 
Lambel, M.
Lambert, M.
Lameth, Alexander. 
Lameth, Charles. 
Lamoignon, M.
Lamourette, Bishop, makes a motion in the Assembly. 
La Muette, at Choisy, palace of. 
Lanjuinais, M.
Leopold, Emperor of Austria, remonstrates with the French government.
Le Patriote Francais. 
Lepitre, M.
Les Enrages, a political club formed under the presidency of the Duc
d’Orleans. 
“Les Evenements Imprevus”. 
Lessart, M.
Letters from Maria Teresa to her daughter.  See Maria Teresa. 
  From Marie Antoinette to her mother.  See Marie Antoinette. 
Liancourt, Duc de. 
Libelous attacks on the queen. 
Liberty, Restorer of French, a title given to the king. 
Lichtenstein, Prince de, sent as envoy from Austria. 
Lomenie de Brienne, Archbishop of Toulouse, appointed prime minister;
  resigns office. 
Lord Carlisle;
  Stormont. 
Lorraine, Prince of;
  death of. 
Lorraine, Princess of, at the State ball. 
Louis XIV., the Duc de la Feuillade’s statue of. 
Louis XV., character and life of;
  apathy of;
  catches the smallpox;
  death of. 
Louis XVI, receives homage on the death
  of his grandfather;
  influenced by his aunts;
  gives the pavilion of the Little Trianon to the queen;
  compared to Louis XII. and Henry IV.;
  crowned at Rheims;
  concludes an alliance with the United States;
  exempts from the poll-tax all those unable to pay on the occasion of the
    birth of the dauphin;
  visits Cherbourg;
  orders the arrest of two members of Parliament, and also the closing-up
    of the House;
  conspicuous for his charity during the winter of 1788-89;
  concedes the chief demands of the Commons;
  opens the States in person, May 5th, 1789;
  loses his eldest son, the dauphin, June 4th, 1789;
  grants reforms to the States;
  removes Necker;
  withdraws the troops from Paris;
  visits Paris, and appeals to the populace, July 17th, 1789;
  invites Necker to return;
  called the “Restorer of French Liberty,”;
  sends his plate to be melted down for the benefit of the starving
    citizens;
  adheres to his conciliatory policy before the mob at Versailles;
  fixes his residence at Paris;
  accepts the Constitution so far as it has been settled;
  accepts the services of the Count de Mirabeau;
  offers La Fayette the sword of the Constable of France, which he
    declines;
  appears at the fete at the Champs de Mars;
  contemplates foreign intervention;
  decides to remove to Montmedy;
  report of attempted assassination of;