The French Revolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,095 pages of information about The French Revolution.

The French Revolution eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,095 pages of information about The French Revolution.

Navy, Louis xv. on French.

Necker, and finance, account of, dismissed, refuses Brienne, recalled, difficulty as to States-General, reconvokes Notables, opinion of himself, popular, dismissed, recalled, returns in glory, his plans, becoming unpopular, departs, with difficulty.

Necklace, Diamond.

Nerwinden, battle of.

Nievre-Chol, Mayor of Lyons.

Nobles, state of the, under Louis xv., new, join Third Estate.

Notables, Calonne’s convocation of, assembled 22nd February 1787, members of, effects of dismissal of, reconvoked, 6th November 1788, dismissed again.

Noyades, Nantes.

October Fifth, 1789

Oge, condemned.

Orleans, High Court at, prisoners massacred at Versailles.

Orleans, a Duke d’, in Louis xv.’s sick-room.

Orleans, Philippe (Egalite), Duc d’, Duke de Chartres (till 1785), waits on Dauphin, Father, with Louis xv., not Admiral, wealth, debauchery, Palais-Royal buildings, in Notables (Duke d’Orleans now), looks of, Bed-of-Justice, 1787, arrested, liberated, in States-General Procession, joins Third Estate, his party, in Constituent Assembly, Fifth October and, shunned in England, Mirabeau, cash deficiency, use of, in Revolution, accused by Royalists, at Court, insulted, in National Convention, decline of, in Convention, vote on King’s trial, at King’s execution, arrested, imprisoned, condemned, and executed.

ORMESSON, d’, Controller of Finance.

Pache, Swiss, account of, Minister of War, Mayor, dismissed, reinstated, imprisoned.

Pan, Mallet du, solicits for Louis.

Panis, Advocate, in Governing Committee, and Beaumarchais, confidant of
Danton.

Pantheon, first occupant of.

Parens, Curate, renounces religion.

Paris, origin of city, police in 1750, ship Ville-de-Paris, riot at Palais-de-Justice, beautified, in 1788, election, 1789, troops called to, military preparations in, July Fourteenth, cry for arms, search for arms, Bailly, mayor of, trade-strikes in, Lafayette patrols, October Fifth, propositions to Louis, Louis in, Journals, bill-stickers, undermined, after Champ-de-Mars Federation, on Nanci affair, on death of Mirabeau, on flight to Varennes, on King’s return, Directory suspends Petion, enlisting, 1792, on forfeiture of King, Sections, rising of, August Tenth, prepares for insurrection, Municipality supplanted, statues destroyed, King and Queen to prison, September, 1792, names printed on house-door, in insurrection, Girondins, May 1793, Municipality in red caps, brotherly supper, Sections to be abolished.

Paris, Guardsman, assassinates Lepelletier.

Paris, friend of Danton.

Parlement, patriotic, against Taxation, remonstrates, at Versailles, arrested, origin of, nature of, corrupt, at Troyes, yields, Royal Session in, how to be tamed, oath and declaration of, firmness of, scene in, and dismissal of, reinstated, unpopular, summons Dr. Guillotin, abolished.

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