to the king. 
Retaux de Villette. 
Retrenchment in court expenditure. 
Reveillon, M., and the Paris riot. 
Revolution of 1789 commenced. 
Revolutionary tribunal;
  trial of the queen. 
Rheims, coronation of Louis XVI. at. 
Richelieu, Duc de. 
Ride, Marie Antoinette expresses a wish to learn to;
  donkey-riding. 
Riding, donkey;
  horse. 
Riots, formidable in some of the provinces;
  in Paris;
  the Reveillon, in Paris;
  in Paris, July, 1789;
  in Paris, June 20th, 1792;
  in Paris, August 5th, 1792;
Robespierre, M.
Rochambeau, Marshal. 
Roche-Aymer, Count de. 
Rodney, Admiral. 
Roederer, M.
Rohan, Cardinal Prince de. 
Roland, Madame, urging secret assassinations of the king and queen;
  and Robespierre;
  death of. 
Romenf, M. 
“Rose of the North,” a name given to the Countess de Fersen. 
Rosenburg, Count de. 
Rousseau, Jean Jacques. 
Royal family, the, preparing to escape;
  arrested;
  authority suspended. 
Royalists, the name first used as a reproach. 
Russia allies with Prussia;
  Grand Duke of, visits the French court;
  Catherine Empress of.

Sabran, Abbe de. 
Sahib, Tippoo, Sultan of Mysore. 
Salis, M. de. 
Sans-culottes. 
Santerre, M., and the attack on the Bastille;
  and the Paris insurrection;
  and the insurgents. 
Sartines, M. de. 
Savonieres, Marquis de. 
Scarcity of food in Paris in September, 1789. 
Schoenbrunn, retreat at. 
Seine, water-parties on the;
  frozen over. 
Seven Years’ War, the. 
Severity of the winter of 1788-’89 much felt in France. 
Seville, the Barber of, the play of. 
Seze, M. de. 
Sieyes, Abbe. 
Simolin, M.
Simon M., and the young king. 
Sir Edward Hughes. 
Sledging-parties. 
Small-pox caught by Louis XV.;
  caught by Madame Adelaide. 
Snow pyramids and obelisks erected, and inscriptions made on them showing
  the French people’s gratitude for the charity displayed by the queen in
  the winter of 1788-’89. 
Soissons. 
Songs of the Dames de la Halle on the occasion of the birth of the
  dauphin. 
Sophie Helene Beatrice, Princess, born July 9th, 1786, died June 9th 1787. 
Sovereign of France, arbitrary powers of the. 
Spain and France form an alliance against the British. 
Spanish squadron destroyed by the British. 
St Anthony’s Day. 
St. Cloud, visit of the dauphin and dauphiness to;
  purchased for the queen. 
St Huruge, Marquis de. 
St. Priest, Count de. 
St. Targeau, M. de. 
St Menehould, the king recognized at, while escaping from France. 
Stael, Baroness de, at the opening of the States;
  and the queen’s last days. 
States-general, need for a meeting of the;
  opening of the, by Louis XVI., May 5th, 1789;
  uproar in. 
Statue of Louis XIV., by the Duc de la Feuillade.