INDEX.

Clarence, duke of, i. 106.
Claude, queen of Francis I. of France,
death of, i. 168.

Clement V., pope, fixes his pontifical
court at Poitiers, i. 72. Abolishes
the order of Knights Templars, i.73.
Clement VII., pope, i. 168. Death of,
183.

Clermont, prince de, supersedes the
duc de Richelieu in the command
of the army, ii. 189.
Cleves, duke of, i. 197.
Clignet de Brabant, i. 102.
Clinton, Sir Henry, ii. 212.
Clisson, the constable, i. 96.
Clootz, the chosen orator of the hu-
man race, iii. 60. Execution of, iii.
66.

Clotilda marries Clovis, i. 10.

Clovis, the first French monarch, de-
feats Syagrius, and takes possession
of Soissons, i. 9. By his own hand
extirpates the whole race of a rival
family, i. 10. Baptized; receives the
title of most Christian king; mar-
ries Clotilda, a Burgundian princess,
ib. Crowned in the cathedral of
Rheims; gains a great victory over
the Visigoths in Aquitain; trans-
fers the seat of government to Paris;
dies, and is buried in the church of
Saint Généviève, i. 11.
Clugny succeeds Turgot as minister
of finance, ii. 208. Death of, ib.
Cobentzel, the Austrian plenipoten.
tiary, signs the treaty of Campo
Formio, iii. 134.

Coburg, prince of, iii. 38.
Cognac, treaty of, i. 173.
Coigny, mareschal de, ii. 164.
Colbert, superintendent of finance, ii.
88. Death of, ii. 111.
Colbert, general, iii. 229.

Coligni, Gaspard de, i. 218. Becomes

285

|Combalet, madame de, ii. 36.
Condé, prince de, joins the malcon-
tents, i. 231. Brought to trial, i. 233.
Attends the assembly of the states-
general accused by the king with
attempting his life; committed to
prison; tried, and condemned to
death, i. 235. Liberated, ib. Takes
possession of Orleans, ib. Con.
cludes a treaty with queen Eliz-
abeth of England, i. 238. Com-
mands the Huguenots at the battle
of St. Dennis, i. 243. Arrives at
Rochelle, i. 244.. Shot by a captain
of the duke of Anjou's guard, i. 246.
Condé, prince de, marriage of, with
mademoiselle de Montmorency, i.
294. Enters Paris at the head of
an army, ii. 13. Demands an assem-
bly of the states-general, ii. 15. Is
allowed to participate in the gov-
ernment, and to sign the decrees of
the council, ii. 18. Arrested, and
confined in the Bastile, ii. 19. Lib-
erated, ii. 21. Death of, ii. 60.
Condé, prince de, conquers Lens, ii.
65. Arrested at the door of the coun-
cil chamber, and sent to Vincennes,
ii. 72. Removed to Marcoussy, ii. 75.
Liberated, ii. 76. Retires from Par-
is; seeks an alliance with Spain, ii.
77. Leaves the south; joins his
army; surprises Hocquincourt, and
defeats him, ii. 78. Hastens to Paris;
his reception by the parliament;
appeals to the people, ib. Driven
from St. Cloud; throws himself into
the fauxbourg St. Antoine; is de-
nied entrance into the city; has
recourse to the Spaniards, ii. 79.
Quits Paris to join the Spanish
army, ii. 81. Restored to his rank
and possessions, ii. 86. Retires to
the solitude of Chantilly, ii. 99.

a convert to Calvinism; dispatches Condé, princess de, ii. 74.
a Protestant colony to Brazil, i. 220. Condillac, ii. 178.
Heads a religious faction hostile to Condorcet, ii. 253.

Conradin, son of Conrad, i. 63. In-

vades Naples, i. 64. Defeated by
Charles of Anjou, ib.

the court, i. 231. Demands tolerance Conrad, the emperor, leads an army
for the sectarians, i. 234. Raises the to Constantinople, i. 40. Death of,
siege of Poitiers, i. 247. Retires with i. 63.
the queen and the prince of Navarre
to Rochelle, i. 249. Appears at
court; his reception, i. 250. Assas-
sinated by Bême, a German follow-
er of the duke of Guise, i. 252.
Colli, the Sardinian general, iii. 107.
Abandons his intrenched camp at
Ceva, and retires to Mondovi, iii.
108. Treats with Napoleon; he re-
quires of him the surrender of all
he important fortresses of the king-
lom, iii. 109.

Constance, daughter of the count of
Toulouse, and queen of Robert king
of France, i. 28.
Constantine, his war with Magnen-
tius, i. 8. A comparison between
him and Clovis, i. 10. Murders his
wife and son, ib.

Contades, mareschal de, ii. 190.
Constantine, grand duke, iii. 193.

Columbus discovers another hemi-Copenhagen, battle of, iii. 164. Re

Corsica conquered by the French, i. fore the high court sitting at Or

219.

Corunna, battle of, iii. 230.

Cosse, marshal, f. 255.

Coutras, battle of, i. 263.
Couthon, arrest of, iii. 73. Rescued
and conveyed to the Hôtel de Ville,
ib. Execution of, iii. 74.
Craonne, battle of, iii. 273.
Cressy, battle of, ii. 82.

Cromwell decides for the French alli-
ance; his death, ii. 85.

Crusaders make themselves masters

leans, ii. 251.
Derby, earl of, i. 81.

Desaix, general, killed in the battle of
Marengo, iii. 161.

Deseze opens the defence of Louis
XVI., iii. 29.

Desiderius, shuts himself up in his
capital of Pavia, i. 17.
Desmoulins, Camille, ii. 232. Com
mences a journal which he styles
"Vieux Cordelier,” iii. 65. His ar-
rest and execution, iii. 67.

of Constantinople; establish a Latin Dettingen, battle of, ii. 170.
dynasty, i. 45. Occupy Damietta, i. Deux Ponts, duke of, i. 246.
58. Their whole army and their Diana of Poitiers, i. 193.
chief made prisoners, i. 59.
duchess of Valentinois, i. 206.

Cumberland, duke of, accompanies Diderot, ii. 177.

Created

George II. of England to join the Dillon, leader of the revolutionary
prince of Lorraine, ii. 169. Arrives soldiers, ii. 254. Murdered in the
from Culloden, to defend the ally of streets of Lille by his own troops,
England against marshal de Saxe, iii. 10.
ii. 174. Abandons Hanover; obliged Djezzar, iii. 144.
to sign the capitulation of Kloster- Don Gerle, iii. 70.
Seven, ii. 187.
Douglas, earl, i. 106.
Cuesta, the Spanish general, iii. 283. Drake, Mr., iii. 182.
Custine, general, takes the important
fortress of Mayence, iii. 25. Execu-
tion of, iii. 57.

D.

Dandelot, brother of Coligny, profess
es the Protestant religion, i. 226.
Death of, i. 247.

Danes, i. 22.

Dante, i. 47.

Danton sends out commissaries in all

Dresden, battle of, iii. 265.
Dreux, the battle of, i. 239.
Drouet, iii. 102.

Dubois, a churchınan, ii. 146. Made
secretary of state, ii. 152. His
character; made archbishop of Cam-
bray, ib. Obtains a cardinal's hat
from the pope, ib. Death of, ib.
Dubourg, Anne, i. 229.
Ducos, iii. 150.
Ducoudray, iii. 131.

directions from the capital, bearing Dumas, Mathieu, ii. 212.

as their manifesto a bold avowal of Dumouriez marches to the aid of the
the late murders of the aristocrats,
and preaching universally the sim-
ple mandate of "Go and do thou
likewise," iii. 13. Undertakes the
defence of Robespierre and Marat
at the Jacobin meeting, iii. 17. Pro-
poses to ask the city of Paris to fur-
nish 30,000 volunteers, iii. 36.
tires to the country, iii. 63. Arrest
of, iii. 67. Execution of, ib.
Dantzic, siege of, iii. 211.
Damiens, ii. 185.

Re-

Dampière, general, iii. 43.
Dann, mareschal, ii. 186.
Dauphin, the son of Louis XV. ii.
189. Death of, ii. 196.
Davidowitch, the Austrian general,
iii. 117.

Davila, secretary to Catherine de Me-
dicis, i. 235.

Davoust created prince of Eckmuhl

on the field of battle by Napoleon,
iii. 232. His death, iii. 255.
Delaborde, lieutenant, iii. 227.
Delman, iii. 166.

Dellesart, secretary for foreign af

fairs, arrested and sent for trial be

confederates of Cracow, ii. 197. His
character, ii. 252. Influences the
king to resist the counsels and in-
sinuations of the Girondists, ii. 254.
Retires from the ministry, ii. 256.
Conceives the plan of invading Bel-
gium, iii. 9. Joins the army as
lieutenant-general; appointed com-
mander-in-chief, iii. 10. His defence
in the Argonne, iii. 12. Visits the
capital; appears at the bar of the
convention; refuses to hold con-
verse with Marat, iii. 25. Marches
against the Austrians, iii. 26. Takes
possession of Belgium; his trium-
phant entry into Brussels, ib. Gives
battle to the imperialists at Neer
winden, iii. 38. Turns his views
against the convention; enters intc
an understanding with the Aus-
trians; proposes to march upon
Paris, iii. 39.
Paris, iii. 39. Orders the four com-
missioners of the convention to be
put under arrest, ib. Abandons his
army; joins the Austrians; honor-
ably received by them, and offered
command, ib.

INDEX.

Dunois, the famous bastard of Or-
leans, founder of the house of Lon-
gueville, i. 97.
Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry,
ii. 182.

Dupont de Nemours, iii. 101.

E.

Ebersberg, the town of, burned by the
French after the battle, iii. 232.
Edessa, a town in Palestine belonging
to the French, taken by the sultan
of Aleppo, i. 40.

Edgeworth, abbé, selected by Louis
XVI. for his confessor before his
execution, iii. 33.

Edward I. of England, i. 66. Goes to
France to do homage to Philip the
Fair; offers his services as arbitra-
tor to settle the differences betwixt
France and Aragon, i. 67. Sum-
moned to appear before the parlia-
ment of Paris, i. 68. Anecdote of,
i. 69.

Edward III. of England, i. 77. Forms
an alliance with the Flemish citi-
zens, i. 79. Assumes the title of
king of France, ib. Establishes his
camp at Cressy, i. 81. Gives up his
pretensions to the crown of France
as well as to Normandy, i. 88. Death
of, i. 90.

Edward the Black Prince, i. 84. Death
of, i. 90.

Edward IV. of England invades
France, i. 124. Death of, i. 130.
Egalité duke of Orleans, iii. 32. Exe-
cution of, iii. 59.

Egypt, ancient royalty subject to the
priesthood, i. 13. Soldan of, invades
Palestine, i. 64.
Elbeuf, duke of, ii. 69.

Eleonora, daughter of the count of
Poitiers, marriage of, with Henry
II. of England, i. 41.
Elgin, lord, iii. 182.
Eliza Bonaparte, iii. 201.
Elizabeth queen of England demands
the restitution of Calais from Henry
IV. of France. i. 285.

Elizabeth, princess, sister of Louis
XVI. of France, ii. 258. Execution
of, iii. 68.

Emmanuel Philibert, prince of Savoy,
i. 218.

Emmanuel Godoy, iii. 221.

Enghien, count d', i. 195. Death of,
ib.

Enghien, duc d', iii. 181.

287

France, ii. 183. Signs a treaty of
peace at Paris, ii. 192.
Enguerrand de Marigny, i. 74. Ac
cused of sorcery, and hanged upon
a gibbet, ib.

Epernon, duke of, favorite of Henry
III. of France, created admiral of
France and governor of Normandy,
i. 265. Compelled to surrender all
his governments by cardinal Riche-
lieu, and retire to the castle of
Plassac; conveyed to the castle of
Loches, where he died, ii. 47.
Espréménil, de, ii. 219.
Estrées, mareschal d', commander of
the army, sent by the French against
Hanover, ii. 186.

Etampes, duchess d', her influence
over the king, i. 173. Intrigues and
corresponds with the emperor of
Austria, i. 194. Deprived of her
possessions, i. 206.

Eudes, count of Champagne, crown
ed king of France during the mi-
nority of Charles the Simple, i. 26.
The nobles of Lombardy offer him
their crown, i. 29. Sustains a long
war as pretender to the throne of
Arles and Provence, ib.

Eugene, prince, commands a large
army into Italy, ii. 118. Recalled
from Italy to defend the Austrian
capital, ii. 121. Invades Provence ;
lays siege to Toulon, ii. 127. In-
vests Lille, ii. 128.

Eugene Beauharnois, marriage of,
with the daughter of the king of
Bavaria, iii. 201. Defeats prince
John of Austria at Rabb, iii. 296.
Evreux, count d', i. 77.
Exarchate, i. 16.

F.

Fabrico Colonna, commander of the
papal troops, i. 148.

Fanfrede, trial of, iii. 57. Execution
of, iii. 58.

Farel, minister of religion at Geneva,
i. 186. Visits the Vaudois from
Geneva, i. 201.

Farnese, nephew of pope Paul, assas-
sination of, i. 211.
Fastolffe, Sir John, i. 108.
Fauxbourg St. Germain, plundered by
the royalists, i. 275.

Fayette, mademoiselle de la; her in-
fluence with the king prompts him
to mistrust the cardinal Richelieu;
advises him to be reconciled to the
queen; retires to a convent, ii. 45.

England, conquered by William of Fénélon archbishop of Cambray, ii.
Normandy, i. 32. Offers the crown 154.

to prince Louis, son of Philip Au- Ferand, a deputy, killed by the mob
gustus of France, i. 51. Concludes

a truce with France, i. 86. Inva-
sion of, by William prince of

while endeavoring to save the presi
dent of the convention from their
fury, iii. 87.

Orange, ii. 106. Declares war with Ferdinand, prince of Asturias, i

222

221. Proclaimed king of Spain, iii.
Yields back the crown to
Charles IV., iii. 225.
Ferdinand of Brunswick, ii. 187. Takes
Minden, ii. 189. Attacks Bergham
repulsed by the mareschal de Brog-
lie, ii. 190.

Fersen, M. de, ii. 246.

Flanders in the possession of Bald-

win, i. 24. Annexed to the crown
of France, i. 69. Rebels massacre
the French at Bruges, i. 70. States
of, assemble at Ghent; send am-
bassadors to treat with Louis XI.,
i. 128. In possession of Austria, i.
136. The campaign of, in 1794, ob-
servations on, iii. 76.
Fleury, his character, ii. 155. Ap-

taxes, i. 195. At peace wit'. Eng
land, i. 201. in possession of larmă,
i. 213. A sudden change take
place in the national character of,
i. 228. Comparison between her and
England; divided into two classes,
plebeian and patrician, ii. 8. The
majority of the people of the south
of, Huguenots, ii. 9. Declares war
with Spain, ii. 42. Paper money
first appears in, ii. 127. A most
rigorous winter in 1709, in, ii. 128.
Concludes a treaty of peace with
England; promises to banish the
pretender and his followers, ii. 147.
Forms an alliance with Spain, ii.
191. Domestic affairs of, ii. 193.
Concludes a treaty with America,
ii. 210. Declares war with England,
iii. 60.

pointed confessor and instructor to
Louis XV., ib. On the appointment
of Bourbon as prime minister, re- Franche-Comté conquered by Louis
serves for himself two privileges;|__ XIV., ii. 96.

the management of ecclesiastical Francis I. of France, his accession ;
affairs, and the right of being pres-
ent whenever the duke consulted
the king, ii. 156. Retires from court;
recalled by the king; assumes the
functions of prime minister, ii. 158.
Interposes as mediator between
Spain and England, and restores
peace, ii. 160. Abolishes the impost
made by his predecessor, the duc de
Bourbon, ib. Obtains a cardinal's
hat from the pope, and promises in
return to support the anti-Jansenist
decree, ii. 161. Death of, ii. 167.
Foix, mareschal de, i. 170.
Fontenelle employed by the regent
Orleans to draw up his manifestoes,
ii. 154.

Fontenoy, battle of, i. 20.

Fort St. Philip surrenders to the
French, ii. 184.

Fouché, iii. 92. Reinstated as minis-
ter of police, iii. 181. Shares the
disgrace of Bernadotte, iii. 299.
Foulon, superintendent of the rev-
enue, seized as one of the aristo-
cratic conspirators; hanged by the
rabble from a lamp-post, ii. 235.
Fouquet, superintendent of finance,

ii. 88 His character; arrest and
condemnation of, ib.

Fournier, arrested by order of Marat,
iii. 38.

Fox, his letter to Napoleon Bona-
parte, iii. 201.

Foy, general, iii. 221.

France is divided into two great por-

tions; Austrasia to the east, and
Neustria to the west, i. 11. Con-
cludes a treaty with Aragon, i. 68.
A truce concluded with England, i.
86. Invasion of Henry VIII. of
England, and Maximilian of Aus-
tria, i. 149. Overburthened with

his education; his disposition, i.
153. Appoints judges in parliament,
i. 154. Receives knighthood at the
hands of Bayard; gains a great
victory over the Swiss at Marig.
nano, i. 156. Deprives parliament
of all ecclesiastical appointments,
i. 159. Requests Henry VIII. of
England to meet him; they meet a
few leagues from Calais, called ever
after the Field of the Cloth of Gold,
i. 160. Supports De la Mark, i. 161.
His rage against Lautrec; refuses
to see him, i. 164. Marches against
Milan, and takes it, i. 168. Kills
the marquis of St. Ange with his
own hand; routs the Italian troops,
i. 170. Receives several wounds;
recognized by Pomérant, ib. Yields
his sword to Lannoi, viceroy of Na-
ples; removed to the castle of Piz-
zighitone; receives Pescara with
admiration and esteem, ib. Fur
nishes galleys for the voyage to
Spain; arrives at Madrid; still
closely guarded; refused an inter-
view with the emperor of Austria;
visited by the emperor, i. 171. Lib.
erated; arrives at Bourdeaux, i.
173. Publishes the league against
the emperor, denominated Holy, the
pope being at its head, i. 174. Re-
sists the parliament and the Sor-
bonne, i. 180. Defends Erasmus and
Berquin against Beda; his charac
ter changes with his fortune; he
persecutes the people, i. 181. His
love of letters; establishes a roya
college, ib. Attempts to re-model
his army after the fashion of the
ancients, i. 182. On terms of the
closest alliance with Henry VIII.
of England, ib. Uses his influence

INDEX.

with the pope in behalf of Henry,
ib. His cruelty in burning the re-
formers, i. 185. Claims the duchy
of Milan for his second son; takes
Turin; encamps before Vercelli, i.
187. Holds a bed of justice, i. 189.
Marches into Flanders, i. 190. Forms
an alliance with the Turks, i. 191.
His conduct with respect to the peo-.
ple of Ghent, i. 192. Receives Charles
emperor of Austria with great splen-
dor, ib. Dispatches ambassadors to
Venice and Constantinople, i. 193.
Pardons the insurgents of Rochelle,
i. 196. Orders his Mediterranean
galleys to join those at Havre; col-
lects a fleet; goes with his court to
see it; gives a banquet on board, i.
200. Dispatches an order to the
parliament of Aix for the destruc-
tion of the Vaudois, i. 202.
death and character, i. 203.

His

289

Alsace; his letter to Louis, ii. 171
Driven from Bohemia by mareschal
Traun, ib. Concludes a treaty with
England; his entry into Dresden,
ii. 173. Concludes a defensive alli-
ance with England, ii. 184. Enters
Saxony; defeats the Austrians;
obliges the entire Saxon army to
surrender to him as prisoners of
war, ib. Marches into Silesia; de-
feats the Austrians at Lissa, ii. 188
Signs a treaty of peace with Aus
tria, ii. 193.

Frederic William king of Prussia, iii
8. Makes himself master of May
ence, iii. 56. Declares war with
France, iii. 203. His interview with
Napoleon, iii. 214. Enters Paris in
triumph, iii. 276.

Fronde, commencement of the, ii. 64.
Termination of the, ii. 82.
G.

Francis II. of France, marriage of, Gabelle, the, established, i. 80. Estab
with Mary queen of Scots, i. 226.
Death of, i. 235.

Francis count of Angoulême, i. 145.
Francis duke of Guise, i. 216.

lished anew by a royal ordonnance,
i. 96.

Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of Henry
IV. of France, i. 289. Her death, ib.

Francis succeeds his father the empe-Galigai marchioness of Ancre brought

ror of Austria, iii. 9. Disgusted
with his Flemish subjects, abandons
the seat of war, iii. 77 Demands
an interview with Napoleon, iii.]

to trial; accused of witchcraft; her
reply to her accusers, ii. 20. Con.
demned to be beheaded and burned
as a sorceress, ib.

liberty secured, i. 112.

Garat, minister of justice, communi-
cates to Louis XVI. his condemna
tion, iii. 32.

199. Abdicates the ancient authori-Gallican church, its independence and
ty over Germany, iii. 202.
Franks, i. 8. Had no capital previous
to Clovis, i. 9. Established in the
Netherlands as far as modern
France, i. 8. Settle in Brabant, ib.
Governed by the Merovingians, i.
11. Assemble in the Champ de
Mars, ib. A regent, elected from
amongst them, ib. They blockade
Pavia, i. 17.

Frederic Barbarossa, i. 43.
Frederic II. emperor of Germany, his
death, i. 63.

Garde, baron de la, sent by Francis I.
of France to the court of Solyman,
i. 197. Commands the troops against
the Vaudois; marches to the banks
of the Durance, i. 202. Murders the
captives, ib.

Gascons, the, join their aid to the Sar
acens, i. 18.

Gaston de Foix, duke of Nemours
commands an army against the
pope, i. 148. His death, ib.

Frederic king of Naples, driven from
his capital, flies to Ischia, thence to
France; receives the duchy of An-Gaul conquered by Cæsar, i. 7. Its an-
jou, i. 142.

Frederic duke of Saxony, the patron
of Luther, refuses the imperial
crown; gives his voice to Charles,
i. 160.

cient boundaries, ib. Invaded by
barbarians, i. 8.

Geneva, its independence; renounces
its allegiance to Rome, i. 186.
Gensonne, his trial, iii. 57. His exe-
cution, iii. 58.

George II. of England advances with
an army to join the prince of Lor-
raine, ii. 169. Death of, and acces-
sion of his grandson, opens the way
for peace; it was sigued at Paris,
ii. 192.

Frederic II. of Prussia claims Silesia.
from Maria Theresa of Austria as
the price of his neutrality; treated
by her with contempt, marches into
Silesia, ii. 167. Engages in a gene-
ral action with the Austrians at
Czaslau; and, having defeated them,
makes peace with Maria Theresa, George III. of England, iìi. 167.
who was then glad to cede Silesia, Germans conquer the western par!
ii. 167. Comes to the aid of Louis of France, i. 12.

XV.; invades Bohemia; recalls the Germany brought the germs of politi
imperialists from their invasion of cal wisdom, those of monarchy