victory near Burgos, iii. 230. Ar-Omar king of Tunis, i. 64.
rives at the gates of Vienna; the Oppede, baron de, president of Aix. archduke Maximilian refuses to i. 202. Conquers the Vaudois, and surrender, iii. 233. His reply to Berthier and Massena, when they counselled a retreat, iii. 235. Con- cludes a peace with Austria; medi- tates a divorce from Josephine, and marriage with a princess of Aus- tria, iii. 241. Second marriage of, with Maria Louisa of Austria, ib. Takes a journey through his north- ern dominions of Belgium, iii. 243. Orleans, siege of, i. 107. Takes possession of Moscow, iii. Orleans, duchess of, i. 87. Accused of 256. Sends Lauriston with propo-
murders the captives, ib.
Orange, William prince of, marries the princess Mary of England, ii. 99. Attacks the mareschal de Lux- embourg at Mons, ii. 100. Invades England, ii. 106.
Orange, prince of, raised to sovereign power; created hereditary stadt- holder, ii. 174.
sals of peace to the emperor of Rus-Orleans, duke of, i. 195. Death of, i. sia, iii. 257. Leaves Moscow for Kalouga, iii. 258. Resolves to quit Orleans, Gaston duke of, ii. 28. Es- the army, and hasten to Paris, iii. 261. Arrives at the Tuilleries quite unexpected by the empress, ib. Again joins his army, iii. 262. Sends to demand of the emperor of Austria an armistice offered by the victorious sovereigns at Frankfort, iii. 268. Leaves Paris, intrusting his empress and her son to the care of the national guards of the capi- tal, iii. 270. Refuses to approve of the conditions of the congress of Châtillon sent to him by Čaulain. court, iii. 271. Signs an uncondi- tional abdication on the 11th of April, 1814, iii. 277.
pouses mademoiselle de Montpen- sier, ii. 30. Death of, ii. 87. Orleans, duchess of, sister of Charles II. of England, uses her influence to establish a close connexion between France and England, ii. 93. Death of, ib.
Necker appointed director of the treasury; character of, ii. 209. Com- plains to the king of the insuffi- ciency and profusion of M. de Sar- tines, minister of marine, and pro- poses the mareschal de Castries for his successor, ii. 210. Resignation of, ii. 211. Returns to power; pro- posés a royal sitting somewhat re- sembling the beds of justice, ii. 227. Resigns, ii. 228. Resumes the min- Resumes the min- istry, ii. 229.
Nerewinden, battle of, ii. 110. Nelson, lord, iii. 136. Neuperg, general, ii. 167. Neustria, adopts the manners of the Romanized Gauls, i. 11. Is subdued by Austrasius, i. 15. Nevers, duke of, ii. 32.
Ney, marshal, iii. 163. Carries the bridge of Elchingen, iii. 194. Created prince of Moskwa, iii. 256.
Nile, battle of the, iii. 136. Noailles, mareschal de, ii. 169. Normandy, duke of, i. 37.
Normandy invaded by John of Eng. land and Philip of France, i. 44. Novi, battle of, iii. 143.
O'Hara, commander, iii. 61.
Oliver the barber, i. 131.
Orleans, Philip duke of, ii. 87. Ap pointed to the command in Italy, ii. 125. Suspected of administering poi- son to the dauphin; demands to be sent to the Bastile; confronted with witnesses, and tried, ii. 133. Fills the place of heir presumptive, ii. 137. Appointed regent; his character, as given by St. Simon, ii. 141. Pays a visit of condolence to madame de Maintenon, on the death of Louis XIV., and secures to her a hand- some pension, ii. 142. His admira- tion of England, and esteem for Englishmen, ii. 146. Approves of the policy of England; supports her menaces against Spain, iii. 148. Declares war against Spain, and resolves to punish Alberoni, ii. 150. Victorious over foreign and domes- tic foes, ib. Treats the Jansenists with great severity, ii. 152. Death of, ii. 153.
Orleans, duke of, son of the regent, ii 158.
Orleans, duke of, places himself at the head of the American party; exiled in consequence, ii. 219. Suspected of instigating the people to sedition, ii. 224. Driven to exile by La Fay- ette, ii. 242.
Orleans, bishop of, condemned and fined for refusing the sacrament, ii 186.
Ormond, duke of, ii. 120.
Ornano, tutor to the duke of Orleans ii. 28.
Orri, grand inquisitor at Lyons, i. 214 Ossat, cardinal de, i. 281. Osselin, iii. 17.
Olivarez, the Spanish minister, ii. 32. Ostend, capture of, ii. 173.
Palestine invaded by the soldan of 36. Egypt, i. 64.
Paris, siege of, i. 276.
twelve municipalities, iii. 84. Paris, a Jansenist priest, ii. 162. Parker, sir Peter, iii. 164. Parma, siege of, i. 163. Pascal, ii. 92.
Pastoureaux, the, exterminated, and their chief slain, i. 60. Passau, peace of, i. 215.
Paul III., pope, i. 183. Applies to Henry II. of France for his alliance. and aid, i. 212. Death of, ib. Paul IV., pope, i. 219.
Philip II. of France, i. 42. Assumes the cross, i. 43. Returns home from Palestine, i. 44. Conquers Norman- dy, i. 45. Death of, i. 51. Philip III. of France, called the Hardy, i. 65. Death of, i: 67.
Philip IV. of France, i. 67. His char- acter, i. 68. Invades Flanders, i. 69. Leagues with the Scotch, ib. An nexes Lyons to the kingdom of France, i. 73. Death of, i. 74. Philip V. of France, i. 75. Death of, ib.
Philip V1. crowned at Rheims, i. 77. Favors the Scotch, i. 79. Death of, i. 83.
Paul, emperor of Russia, becomes the champion of monarchic Europe; heads a new coalition against Philip duke of Burgundy, i. 94. Death France, iii. 138. Interferes with Na- of, i. 98.
poleon in behalf of the royal family Philip of Spain marries Mary queen of southern Italy, iii. 163. Death of, iii. 164.
Pauline Bonaparte, iii. 201. Pavia, siege of, i. 168. Battle of, i. 169. Pepin dethrones Childeric III., the roi faineant, and causes himself to be crowned, i. 12. Declared the legiti- mate monarch of the Franks, i. 13. Succeeds in rendering the office of regent hereditary, without assuming the name of royalty, i. 12. Van- quishes the Aquitains, i. 15. Obtains a title to his crown from Rome; leads an army into Italy, i. 16. Perpignan, siege of, 195. Pescara, marquis, i. 148. Marches with the constable into the south of France; lays siege to Marseilles, i. 167. Goes to the relief of Pavia, i. 169. Death of, i. 172.
of England, i. 218. Concludes a treaty with Henry II. of France for the extirpation of heresy, i. 229. Es- _tablishes the inquisition, ib. Philip V. of Spain proposes to abdicate the throne in favor of his son, ii. 158. His son died; remounts the throne; concludes a treaty of alliance with Austria, ii. 159.
Philip of Anjou succeeds Charles king of Spain, ii. 117. Departs to take possession of his new kingdom, ib. Philip, don, of Spain, established in the duchy of Parma, ii. 175. Philippa, daughter of Guy de Dam- piere, count of Flanders, i. 69. Philipsburgh, siege of, ii. 164. Pichegru, iii. 86. Arrest of, iii. 179. Found strangled in his prison, iii. 181.
Peter the Hermit makes the first cru- Piedmont, king of, forced to abdicate; sade; procures letters from the pa- exiled to Sardinia, iii. 139.
triarch of Jerusalem to the pope and Pierre de la Brosse, chamberlain and princes of Europe; bears his mission! favorite of Philip III., i. 67. to pope Urban, i. 36. And his follow-Pietro de Medici, i. 137. ers reach Constantinople and fall victims to the Turks, i. 37. Peter of Castelnau, the pope's legate, i. 47.
Pilnitz, conferences of, iii. 9.
Pitt, the English minister, the over- throw of, and rise of lord Bute's in- fluence, ii. 192. Voted by the con- vention to be the "enemy of the human race," iii. 60. His opinion of the French revolution, ib. En- courages England to continue hos- tilities with France, iii. 90. Aban- dons the helm of the state to Ad- dington, iii. 167. Death of, iii. 201. Makes a
Peter king of Aragon, i. 49. Arrives in Sicily with an army and fleet, i. 66. Receives the Sicilian exiles. with their chief, ib. Death of, i. 67. Peter duke of Brittany, i. 54. Petion, the Girondist, mayor, ii. 239. Reconducts Louis XVI. and his family to Paris, ii. 247. Found dead Pius VII., pope, iii. 163.
all his towns, s..bmit to the cru saders, i. 53. Death of, i. 60. Raymond Berenger, count of Prov- ence, i. 55. Death of, i. 56. Rebecqui, iii. 17.
journey to Paris to crown Napoleon, and Josephine, iii. 185. Poland invaded by the Mogul, i. 57. The partition of, ii. 202. Second partition of, iii. 78. Pompadour, madame de, her in fluence Recaniier, madame, iii. 81. with the king, ii. 178. Her friend-Reformation, spread of the, i. 184. Its ship for Quesnel, ii. 179. Her letter progress in the German states, i.
to the French ambassador at Rome, 191. ib. Establishes manufactories and Remy (Saint), bishop of Rheims, sup- public buildings, to encourage art, ii. 181. Ordered to retire from court; recalled by the king, ii. 185. Death of, ii. 196.
Pombal, marquis de, destroys the order of the Jesuits in Portugal, ii. 194. Pope, the, endeavors to found his spir- itual authority by temporal power, i. 16.
Port Royal des Champs. the abbaye of, the retreat at Pascal and Arnaud, razed to the ground by a decree of Louis XIV., ii. 161.
Pradt, abbé de, archbishop of Mechlin, iii. 250.
Pragmatic Sanction, i. 112. Prague, battle of, ii. 186. Presburg, treaty of, iii. 199. Prie, marquis du, ii. 156.
Prie, madame du, exhorts the queen to interfere with the king in behalf of Bourbon, ii. 157. Protestants, persecutions of the, i. 180. An indiscriminate and general mas- sacre of the, i. 253. Pyrenees, at the treaty of the, France assumed its present form and ex- tent, ii. 86.
Ramillies, battle of, ii. 125. Rampon, iii. 106.
Rancour, battle of, ii. 174.
Rapp, general, aid-de-camp to Napo- leon, iii. 166.
Rastadt, treaty of, ii, 134. Ravenna, battle of, i. 148. Raymond VI. count of Toulouse, ex- communicated, i. 47. Delivers up
his cities and fortresses; suffers himself to be flogged in the church of St. Giles, i. 48. Raymond, Roger, viscount Beziers, i. 48. Death of, i. 49.
Raymond VII. count of Toulouse, and
plicates for the silver vase taken at the defeat of Soissons, i. 9.
Renaud, a valet in the service of Du- mouriez, his heroism at the battle of Jemappes, iii. 26.
Réné de Vaudemont, duke of Lor raine, i. 126. Recovers his heritage of Lorraine; Nancy, the capital of the province, surrenders to him, i. 127. Death of, i. 130.
Réné II. of Lorraine, i. 130. Rénée, duchess of Ferrara, i. 184. Renti, siege of, i. 218.
Retz, de, memoirs of, ii. 55. Some of his maxims, ii. 64.
Reubel, member of the executive di- rectory, iii. 100.
Reveillon, a rich manufacturer, of the fauxbourg of St. Antoine, ii. 224.
Revolution, siege of the, ii. 177. Com- mencement of the, ii. 231. Remarks on the, iii. 7. Remarks on the, af- ter the execution of Louis XVI. iii. 34. Close of the, iii. 152. Rheingraf, a German leader, engages in single combat with Coligni; is slain, i. 247.
Rhine, confederation of the, iii. 202. Richmond, count de, taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Agin- court; conceives a hatred to the English; obtains the office of con- stable of France, i. 107. Richelieu bishop of Luçon, distin- guishes himself in the states-gene- ral, ii. 18. Accompanies Mary of Medicis to Blois, ii. 19. Ordered to quit Blois and retire to his bishopric, ii. 20. Recalled to effect an accon- modation between Mary of Medi- Gains over cis and her son, ii. 21.
to the queen the aristocracy and the reformers, ii. 22. Obtains his broth- er's bishopric, visits Paris; courts popularity by preaching, ii. 25. Ob- tains a cardinal's hat, ii. 26. Defies the pope and Spain; sends an army into the Vateline, and expels the Spaniards, ii. 27. Conspiracies against, ii. 29. Forbids Buckingham to visit Paris, ii. 30. Declared prime minister; assumes the title of gen eralissimo; advances at the head of an armed force to humble the pride of Austria, ii. 34. Gains
Rohan, a prelate of the jesuit party, consecrates Dubois archbishop of Cambray, ii. 152.
a complete ascendancy over the Rouchefoucault, duc, de la, and La king; exposes the selfish views of Fayette, prompt Louis XVI. to es- Mary of Medicis, ii. 35. cape, and offer him the means, ii. forgiveness of Mary of Medicis, ii. 262. 36. Unpopularity of, ib. Supports Rodney, admiral, ii. 212. the Protestants, ii. 39. Causes an Roliça, battle of, iii. 227. army, with the king at its head, to march into Lorraine, ii. 40. His administration of, ii. 42. Leads an army to the conquest of Roussillon, and brings the king with him, ii. 49. Death of, ii. 51. His character and administration, ii. 53. Richelieu, duc de, ii. 160. Dispatched to Vienna to endeavor to accom- modate differences, and to counter- act Ripperda, ib. Appointed to the command of the expedition against the island of Minorca; effects a landing, ii. 184. Presses the siege of Fort St. Philip, ib. Arrives at Hanover to supersede D'Estrées in the command of the army, ii. 187. Rincon, ambassador to Constantino- ple, murdered by order of Del Gu- asto, i. 193.
Ripperda, envoy of Philip V. to the court of Austria, ii. 159. Robert the Strong, i. 26.
Robert the Wise marries Bertha, widow of the count of Blois, i. 27. Compelled to put away his wife. Bertha, and marry Constance, daughter of the count of Toulouse, i. 28. His character and death, i. 29. Robert, brother to Henry I. of France, obtains the duchy of Burgundy, i.
Roland, nephew of Charlemagne, the hero of Ariosto, and prefect of the frontiers of Brittany, i. 18. Roland, madame, her opinion of Du- mouriez, ii. 253. Her letter to the king, iii. 256. Execution of, iii. 58. Rollo, i. 20. Possesses Normandy as its hereditary duke; swears allegi- ance to Charles; is baptized with his whole army, i. 23.
Rome, royalty abolished in, i. 13. Con- sidered superior to all western cities; its bishop placed above all other bishops, i. 16. The church of, on what it raised its authority, i. 31. Carried by storm, i. 175. Purchases the mercy of Napoleon at the price of some millions of ready money, and an enormous quantity of her best works of art, iii. 114. Roncesvaux, i. 18.
Rooke, Sir George, forces the port of Vigo; captures and destroys the fleet of the enemy, ii. 120. Takes Gibraltar, ii. 123.
Rosebach, battle of, ii. 188 Rosebecque, battle of, i. 95. Rostopchin, governor of Moscow, iii. 323.
29. Robert, brother of Louis, takes the Roussillon, edict of, i. 241. title of count of Artois, i. 55. Death Royer, Collard, iii. 178. of, i. 70. Rumbold, Sir George, iii. 182. Russia concludes an England, iii. 192.
Robespierre, ii. 237. Character of, ii. 267. His speech at the Jacobin meeting, iii. 18. His reply to Lou- Ruvigny, earl of Galway, ii. 123. vet's speech, iii. 24. Demands the Ryswick, treaty of, ii. 112. immediate execution of Louis XVI.,
St. Dominick, order of, instituted, i. 48.
St. Domingo, civil war in, iii. 174. St. Germain, count, offers a gallant
iii. 28. Proposes that all suspected Sackville, lord George, ii. 190. persons should be put under arrest, Saint André, mareschal, i. 206. Killed iii. 43. Attributes all the reverses in the battle of Dreux, i. 239. of the republican arms to the inef-St. Antoine, battle of, ii. 80. ficiency of Dumouriez and La Fay- St. Aubin, battle of, i. 134. ette, iii. 56. Accused of modera- St. Bartholomew, i. 252. tion, iii. 66. Ordains a fète in honor of the Deity; causes himself to be chosen president of the day, and high priest of the ceremonial, iii. 69. Opens a bureau or office of po- lice in the committee of public safety, where he himself sat, iii. 70. Interferes for the release of Cathe- rine Theot, ib. Ascends the tribune; his speech, iii. 71. His answer to the accusation of Billaud Varennes, iii. 72. Arrest and rescue of, iii. 73. Execution of, iii. 74. Rochefoucau't, duc de la, i 232
resistance to prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, at Crevelt, in the duchy of Cleves, ii. 189. Created minister of war, ii. 208.
St. Hilaire, general, iii. 234. St. Jaques, battle of, i. 112. St. Just, iii. 72. Arrest and rescue of iii. 73. Execution of, iii. 74. St. Louis, order of, instituted, ii. 109. St. Pol, count, created constable of
France, i. 119. Excites the king against duke Charles, 1. 121. Be- headed at the Place de Grève, i. 124. St. Ruth leads a military expedition, called the dragonnades, against the Protestants, ii. 104.
St. Simon, duke, his opinion of Du- bois, ii. 152. His opinion of the re- gent Orleans, ii. 153. St. Quentin, siege of, i. 222. Saladin takes Jerusalem, i. 43. Salic law confirmed by a decree of the states-general, i. 75. Salisbury, lord, killed in the battle of Mansourah, i. 59.
Salles declares the opinion of the Gi- ronde; proposes to decree Louis XVI. guilty, but to leave the pun- ishment to be fixed by the people in their primary assemblies, iii. 30. Saluces, marquis of, i. 177. Death of, i. 190.
Sartines, M. de, minister of marine, ii. 133.
Savary, iii. 167.
Savonnières, M. de, ii, 239. Savoy, duke of, i, 292,
Savoy, prince Thomas of, ii. 42. Saxe, mareschal, leads a large army to the siege of Tournay, ii. 172. In- vests Maestricht, ii. 175.
Saxons overcome by Charlemagne, i. 15.
Scheirer, iii, 140.
Schill, colonel, iii. 235.
Schomberg, general of the German
auxiliaries, i. 275. Commands the
royal forces, ii. 38.
tor of the son of Louis XVI., exe- cution of, iii. 74.
Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, the most prominent warrior of the crusaders, i. 49.
Sion, cardinal, i, 156. Smith, Sir Sidney, iii. 166. Smith, Mr. Spenser, iii. 182. Soissons governed by Syagrius, i. 9. Governed by Ægidius, ib.
Soissons, count de, ii. 43. Death of ii. 48.
Sombreuil, mademoiselle de, ii. 269. Sombreuil, chief of the emigrant ar- my, iii. 85.
Somerset, duke of, killed in the battle of Morat, i. 127. Soubise, comte de, ii. 24. Soult, marshal, iii. 140. Spain signs a treaty with the French republic, iii. 90.
Spaniards, character of the, i. 190. Spurs, battle of, i. 149.
Staël, madame de, iii. 126. Banished from Paris by a decree of exile is sued by Napoleon, iii. 178. Her character of Napoleon, iii. 186. Stair, lord, ii. 146.
Stanislaus, the exiled king of Poland, ii 157. Re-elected king through the influence of Charles XII, of Sweden, ii. 163. Russia and Aus- tria declare against him in favor of the son of the late king Augustus, ib. Gives up his claim to the crown of Poland; receives Lorraine in its stead, as an appanage during his life, ii. 165.
Schwerin, a lieutenant in the Prus-Staps, a young German, seized in an
sian service, ii. 167.
Sebastiani, iii. 172.
Ségur, general de, iii. 194.
Semblançay, execution of, i. 165. Senef, battle of, ii. 97. Serrurier, iii. 116.
Servan, minister of war, ii. 255. Sextus V., pope, i. 272. Sforza Ludovico, i. 141. Sforza, Francis, i. 186. Siagrius governs Soissons, i. 9. Sicard, abbé, ii, 269.
Sicily conquered by Charles of An- jou, i. 64.
Sièyes, abbé, his character, ii. 226. Proposes a plan for neutralizing in surrection, iii. 84. Chosen in place of Reubel in the directory, iii. 142. Resigns, iii. 150. Made one of the provisional consuls charged with preparing the new constitution, iii. 155.
attempt to stab Napoleon, iii. 240. Stengel, general, death of, ili. 108. Suffolk, duke, i. 165. Killed in the battte of Pavia, i. 169.
Sully, minister of Henry IV. of France, i. 285. Created superinten- dent of finance, i. 288. Abjures the Protestant faith, ii. 11. His char- acter, ii. 13. Suwarrow, the Russian general, iii. 141. Ordered by the council at Vi- enna to march into Switzerland, iii. 145. Considering himself betrayed by the Austrians, he broke his sword in resentment and resigned all command, vowing never more to serve with the imperialists, iii 146.
Syagrius defeated by Clovis, i. 9.
T. Taboureau succeeds Clugny as finance minister, ii. 209. Talavera, battle of, ii. 300. Sigismond duke of Austria abandons Talbot, lord, i. 109. Death of, i. 114. his sovereignty over Switzerland, i. Talleyrand, count of Angoulême, i.
Sienna, siege of, i. 219.
Simon the cobbler, the barbarous tu-Talleyrand, M. de, appointed to the
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