Directory, how chosen by Council of Ancients, v. 5. Reside at the Luxembourg, 6. Their first act, the raising of supplies, 6. Their modera- tion, 8. Strength of, consisted in publicity, 8, 9. Opposed by the Anarchists, 9. Recall Pichegru, 10. Establish a ministry of police, 10. Babœuf's conspiracy, 12, 13. Again in- volved in troubles with La Vendée, 14. Suc- cesses of their generals in La Vendée, and final overthrow of the Royalists, 15. An aggressive war indispensable to their exist- ence, 16. Recall their army from Catalonia, 16. Appoint General Buonaparte to the com- mand, 17. Successes in Piedmont, 18. In- formed by Buonaparte of the critical position of the army in Italy, 21. Send expeditionary force under Hoche to Ireland, 27. Propose peace to Austria, 27. General hostility to, 28. Opposition of their generals, 29. Acknow- ledgment of the Directory and French Re- public by Austria, 31. Treaty of Tolentino and spoils of Rome, 32. Opinions and prin- ciples of members of Convention generally opposed to, 33. Their sceptre, one of lead,' 33. Buonaparte reverses their policy at Rome, 33. Opposed by Buonaparte in their foreign policy, 34. Their dissensions, 35. Their instructions to Hoche, and surprise at his coup d'état, 35. Beseech Buonaparte to command the army round Paris, 36. Auger- eau commands their coup d'état, and forces his way to the Tuileries, 36. Sentence the Constitutionalists to deportation, 37. Enact sanguinary laws against émigrés, 38. Second embassy of peace from England, 38. Igno- miniously dismiss Lord Malmesbury, 39. Re- fuse to fulfil conditions of Leoben, 39. Wish to revolutionise all Europe, but opposed by Dispute with Cobentzel Buonaparte, 39. about peace, 40. Treaty of Campo Formio, Intend descent on England by Buona- parte, but their plans treated with contempt, 42. Send Joseph Buonaparte ambassador to Rome, 42. Their instructions adverse to those of Buonaparte to his brother, 43. In- vasion of Egypt determined, and Buonaparte deputed to the command, 44-46. Invasion of Switzerland, 45. Imprudence of Bernadotte at Vienna alters views of Directory regarding Egypt, and they determine renewed invasion of Austria, 46. Invade Egypt, and the ex- pedition set sail from Toulon, 47. Relieved by the absence of Buonaparte, they pursue their own plans, 49. Fail in their foreign Their policy with regard to policy, 51. Enforce the law of Conscrip- Russia, 52. 53. Their invasion of Switzerland tion, meets its own punishment, 53. Offer com- mand of army in Italy to Bernadotte, 54. Their successes, 54. Invade Naples, 54. Battle of Stochach, 55. Appoint Scherer to
the command of the army in Italy, and lose their prestige by his defeat, 57. Murder of their plenipotentiaries at Radstadt, 58. Their conduct meets with general reprobation, 59. Impose the salt tax, 60. Proposals for their removal, 61. New appointments, 62. Ar- rival of Buonaparte and his reception by, 66. Buonaparte seeks to enter, 67. Revolution of 18th Brumaire, 68-71. Clearing of House of Assembly by General Leclerk, 71. The Directory dissolved, 71-73. See Napoleon I. Disjunction, law of, v. 509, 510 Divion, mistress of the Bishop of Arras, charged with forgery, and burned, i. 394 Dixmunde, fortress of, taken by Louis XIV., iv. 25
Dizier, St., besieged by the Emperor Charles V., ii. 562. Surrenders, 563 Djezzar Pacha declines offer of Buonaparte, v. 48. Signs treaty at El Arisch, 93 Dnieper, the, crossed by Marshal Ney, v.
D'O, treasurer of Henry III., attends the council for arranging the murder of Guise, iii. 229. Refuses allegiance to Henry IV., 249, 250. Sent to demand Henry's abjura- tion of Calvinism, 250. Detains Henry and his army at Mantes, 267. His treatment of the King and his officers, 273. His treason and bigotry, 286
Doctrinaires, opposition of, to royalist mea- A designation for the philo- sures, v. 291. sophic liberals, 291. Oppose Decazes, 299. See Guizot; Thiers; Louis Philippe. Dol taken by King John of England, i. 166 Sur- Dôle sacked by Louis XI., ii. 339. Failure of the Prince of Condé to take, iii. 513. renders to Louis XIV., 666
Dolet charged with atheism and executed, ii.
Dombes defeated by the Duke of Mercœur in Brittany, iii. 289
Domfront seized by Geoffrey Martel, Count of Anjou, i. 91. Who is besieged there by Duke William, 91
Domingo, San, reconquest of, attempted by Buonaparte, v. 96
Dominic, St., one of the Papal envoys to the Albigenses, i. 175. His sanguinary demands against them, 175. His peculiar mission, 203 Dominican Friars, establish themselves at Tou- louse, i. 185. Placed at the head of the Inquisition, 212
Doncaster, Lord, sent by James I. of England to the court of Paris, iii. 436 Dordogne, Huguenot inhabitants of the, re- duced by Louis XIII., iii. 434-436 Blockades the Doria, Andrew, brings back the Duke of Al- bany from Naples, ii. 486.
port of Naples, 503. Estranged by Francis I., 503. Defeated by the corsair Dragut, 612
Dorset, Thomas, Marquis of, left in pledge, in France, by the Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII., ii. 364. Lands with an English army at Fuenterabia, 437. Receives a pen- sion from the French, 494
Douai, taken by Philip Augustus, i. 188. Meet- ing of the French and Flemings near, 328. Given by treaty to France, 335. Redemanded by the Flemings, 354, 364, 372. Ceded by Charles V. to the Flemings, 521. Admiral Coligny's attempt to surprise it, ii. 622. Captured by Marlborough and Eugène, iv. 105. Retaken by Marshal Villars, 114 Douglas, Earl of, leads 6,000 Scotch to assist Charles VII., ii. 149. Receives the duchy of Touraine, 149. Slain at the battle of Verneuil, 150
Dourdens recovered by France, ii. 264 Dourlens, siege and capture of, by the Spaniards,
iii. 316. Who defeat the French near, 316 Dover Castle held for King John by Hubert de Burgh, i. 192
Dragonnades, the, of Louis XIV., iv. 13, 14. Transferred from France to the left bank of the Rhine, 35
Dragut, the Algerian corsair, his defeat of Doria, ii. 612
Dresden, peace of, iv. 234. Occupied by Frede- rick the Great, 266. Taken from Frederick the Great by the Austrians, 280. A court held by Napoleon at, v. 182. Battle of, 209
Dreux, Count John de, at the investiture of the
Count of Poitou, i. 221. Battle of, iii. 70. Besieged by Henry IV. of France, 264. Who raises the siege, 264. Besieged and taken by Henry IV. of France, 297, 298 Droit d'ainesse, the, v. 352
Drouet, M., exchanged for daughter of Louis XVI., v. 8. Implicated in Babœuf's plot, 12. Contrives to escape from prison, 13 Dubois, the Abbé, acquires chief influence at court, iv. 141. Opposes toleration of the Protestants, 142. Becomes prime minister, 142, 146. Promotes an English alliance, 145. His character, 147. His visit to Eng- land, 147. His promotion galling to the grandees, 153. Opposes national bankruptcy, 156, note. Becomes secretary for foreign affairs, 168. Confers upon himself the arch- bishopric of Cambray, 180. Obtains a car- dinal's hat, 181. Obtains the signature of Philip V. of Spain to the Quadruple Alliance, 182. Draws close the family bonds between France and Spain, 183. Dismisses Marshal Villeroy, 183. Declared prime minister, 183. His death, 184. His life and character, 184 Dubois-Crancé, besieges Lyons, iv. 597 Dubourg, Annie, judge, his speech to the King
in Parliament, ii. 646. Arrested by the King, 647. Prosecuted, iii. 13, 15. Executed, 16
Duchâtel, Tanneguy, provost of Paris, seve the Dauphin from the fury of the citizens, E 124. Marches at the head of a party to d place the Burgundians, 124. Urges the Duks of Burgundy to meet the Dauphin, when b is treacherously murdered, 133. Concocts & plot for seizing Duke John of Brittany, 135. Has a command in the regular army. 275
Duchâtel, M., becomes minister of finance, v. 504. Resigns, 510. Appointed home minis- ter, 518, 540. His character, 576. Experts an émeute, 583. Anxious for peace, counter- mands military occupation of Paris, 585. He benevolent measures lead to an outbreak, 583, et seq. Resigns, 586
Duclerc, M., finance minister, v. 618 Ducos, the Girondist, points out the danger of a fixed price of corn, iv. 575. His nace struck out of proscribed list by Marat, asi. Imprisoned, 618. His trial and death, Made consul, v. 75
Duelling made a capital offence by Richelie iii. 471. The duels of the time of Henry II., 192
Dufaure, M., minister of public works, v. 515 Plot to assassinate, 651 Dugommier, General, commands at Toulon, P.
Dukes, the, of Charlemagne, i. 25, 26 Dumas, Matthieu, sentenced to exile, r. . Becomes minister of commerce, v. 646 Dumolard, the prefect, sanctions the wearers tariff, v. 454. Taken prisoner by the Lycurs workmen, 455. Resumes his authority, 456 Dumouriez, General, sent by Louis XV. to rast a regiment in Hamburg, iv. 331. Punished by D'Aiguillon, 331. Chosen minister place of Delessert, 480. His respect fat royalty and sympathy for the King, 481. His interview with the Queen, 481. Distres the Gironde, 482. Seeks alliance with the Jacobins, 482. Tries to win Danton, 48% Recommends the Girondists to secure the alliance of Danton, 483. Unsuccessful is war schemes, 483, 484. His summons Austrian cabinet, 484. Induces the King declare war against Austria, and to inv Belgium, 484. Dismissed by the King, 48% Deprecates the manifesto of the Gironde me isters, 487. Quarrels with Servan, 488. Co manded by the King to dismiss the Giron ministers, 488. Persuades the King to sa tion Servan's camp proposition, 488. With- draws from the King and court, 489. Wars Louis of the impending insurrection of the Faubourg St. Antoine, 489. Refuses or tures of the Feuillants, 489. Fra opin that the Prussians might easily maren Paris, 531. Occupies the defiles of Argonne, Concentrates his army near Valmy
533. Where he engages the Prussians, 533. Refuses to take the oath of allegiance to the King, 532. Intrigues for the release of Louis XVI., 543, 544. Allows the Prus- sians to retreat, 544, 546. Visits Paris with a view to conquer Belgium, 544, 546. His reply to reproaches of Marat, 545. Foretels fate of the Girondists, 544, 545. Gains the battle of Jemappes, 546. Disgusted with conduct of the Convention agents in Belgium, 558, 561. Threatens Holland, 559, 562. Makes himself master of Belgium, 558, 561. Endeavours to save the King, 562. Intrigues with Danton against the Anarchists, and for reinstating the King, 562. Sets out for Holland, 562. Defeated at Neerwinden, 563. In accord with the Austrians, purposes to march to Paris and put down the Jacobins, 564. Opposed by his army, and deposed by Camus, he seeks refuge in the Austrian camp, 565. Denounced by Marat and Ro- bespierre, 565. His opinion that Paris might have been taken by German armies in 1791
Dunkirk, battle of, ii. 32.
Captured by De Thermes, 632. Besieged and taken by the Duc d'Enghien, iii. 572. Besieged by the Spaniards, 628. Taken by the Spaniards, aided by the English, 638. Handed over to Cromwell, 639. Sold by Charles II. of Eng- land to Louis XIV., 649. The fortifications razed by Louis XIV., iv. 117. Preparation of an expedition at, for the invasion of Eng- land, 228. The fortifications of, a standing theme of complaint with England, 313. Be- sieged by the Duke of York, 615
unois, Bastard of Orleans, cherished by the duchess, ii. 64. Defends Orleans against the Duke of Bedford, ii. 156. Wounded at the battle of Herrings, 158. Conducts Jeanne d'Arc into the city, 164. Joins her on the Loire, 168. In the procession of Charles VII. into Paris, 195, note. Advocates a continuation of the war with England, 203. Joins the rebellion of the nobles against a standing army, 205. His defection, 207. Sent to relieve Honfleur, but too late, 208. Besieges and takes Le Mans from the Eng- lish, 225. Takes command of the forces against the English, 225. Captures Verneuil, 225. Shares the disgrace of the favourites of Charles VII., 253. His speech to the citizens of Paris, 273. Joins a league against Louis XI., 267, 268. Leads the Bretons towards Paris, 270. Has a command in the royal army, 275. Recovers the goodwill of the King, 277. Excites discontent in the Dukes of Orleans and d'Angoulême, 351, 352. Ob- tains the government of Dauphiné, 352. Joins the league to restore the authority of the French Estates, 366. Supports the cause
Dupin, M., elected a deputy, v. 288. Chosen ad- vocate for the press, 348. Reports on the new departmental law of Martignac, 376. Informs Duke of Orleans of his election to be lieutenant-general, 407. Draws up pro- clamation of the Duke of Orleans, 411. Be- comes minister of state, 421. His rupture with Louis Philippe, 472. Voted president of the chambers, 476. Becomes minister of marine, 487, 518. Opposes the repressive laws, 509. His remark to Louis Philippe, 514. Presses the abrogation of the right of search, 555. Submits to the president, 663 Duplay, the carpenter, the host of Robespierre, iv. 644. One of the jury on Danton's trial, 645. His daughters, their history and con- nexions, 644, 645
Dupleix, governor of the French factories in India, iv. 241. His war with the English in
India, 241. His mistake as to colonisation, 259. Opposed by Clive, 259. Recalled, 260 Duplessis-Mornay draws up the declaration of Henry of Navarre, iii. 241. His negotiation of peace between Henry III. and Henry of Navarre, 243. Advises Henry IV. to offer to resume the Catholic faith, 289, 290. fuses to come to court to Henry IV., 312. His advice to Henry IV. as to his religious policy, 359. His moderate counsels, 395. Present at the assembly of notables at Rouen, 417. Tricked out of his command of Sau- mur, 431
Dupont, General, defeated at Baylen, v. 155. Appointed war minister, 235
Dupont de l'Eure, one of the Carbonari, v. 315. His remark on the oratory of Martignac, 373. Becomes minister of justice, 421. Resigns office, 432. Becomes one of the Provisional Government, 596. Declared president, 605 Dupotet, M., editor of the Bon Sens,' tried and condemned for seditious articles, v. 550 Duprat, created Chancellor by Francis I., ii. 450. Supports the Concordat, 458, note, 459. His degradation of the dignities of the church and law, 460. Hated by the Parisians, 486. Prosecutes the Protestants of Meaux, 515. Sentences the Franciscans to public expo- sure and penitence, 531, note. Dictates his notorious ordonnances, 532. His death, 532. His property seized by Francis I., 551 Duquesne, Admiral, his answer to Louis XIV., iv. 18
Duquesne, Fort, reduced by the English, iv.
Duquesney moves appointment of a government
committee, iv. 678, 679. Commits suicide, 681
Duranti, chief judge of Toulouse, murdered, iii. 236
Duroc, grand master of the palace, death of, at Bautzen, v. 203
Duroi, nominated one of Committee of Government, iv. 678
Duvivier, General, killed in the insurrection of the Ateliers, v. 629
AST INDIA COMPANY, English, its condition compared with that of France, iv. 165. Its success, 259 Eastern Question, its history, v. 489, et seq.,
530, 546. Its settlement by M. Thiers and his cabinet, 525. See Louis Philippe Eberhard, Duke of Franconia, defeated and slain by the Emperor Otho, i. 57 Ebroin, assumes power in Neustria, i. 12. His antagonism to Pepin, 12. His defeat of the Austrasians at Loixi, 12. Slays Martin, brother of Pepin, and is himself assassinated,
Eckmühl, battle of, v. 161
Ecluse, L', fleet fitted out at, for the invasion of England, ii. 37
Edessa, taken by the Crusaders under Tancred of Sicily, i. 108. The inhabitants massacred by the Sultan of Aleppo, 137
Edgeworth, Abbé, attends Louis XVI. at his execution, iv. 556. His exclamation on the death of the King, 556
Education, disappearance of, for the upper classes in France in the last century, iv. 213. But superabundance of it for the poor, 296,
Edward I., King of England, assumes the Cross,. and goes with his uncle Richard to France, i. 257. Borrows money from St. Louis, 257. Goes to Tunis, and returns to Sicily, 277. Sets sail for and relieves Acre, 278. His return to Europe at the death of his father, 280. Does homage to the King of France, 280. Demands Agen from Philip III., 280. Reduces Gaston, Count of Bearn, 281. His desire to be at peace with France, 281, 282. Evades aiding Philip in his war in Spain, 292. His friendly relations with France during the reign of Philip the Hardy, 296. Holds a pass at Chalons with the Count and his Burgundians, 298. Succeeds in establishing peace between France and Aragon, 301. His obsequiousness and kindness to Philip the Fair, 302. His duchy of Guienne threatened by Philip, 302, 303. Edward's reduction of Scotland and Wales, 302. Origin of his character for rapacity, 303, 304. Resistance of his subjects, 304. Encroachments of the Parliament of Paris on the
rights of his duchy of Guienne, 35 Philip the Fair picks a quarrel with England 306. And tricks Edward out of the ducty 307, 308. Edward's marriage with Marga sister of Philip, 307. Endeavours to ras a league of German princes against Phil 310. Pays money to the Emperor Adolph. who misuses it, 310. Proposes to marr the daughter of the Count of Flanders, 3. Who joins Edward and the Germans in w against France, 311. Lands in Flander 314. Retreats before the French to Brages. 314. And thence to Ghent, 314. Conesion of a truce, 314. Restoration of Gui 328
Edward III., King of England, his relations with France, i. 380. His marriage with the Princess Isabella, 380. Who flies to Fran and, with Mortimer, prepares an expeditira against her husband, 380. Their success. 381. Goes to Amiens and does homage a Philip VI., 392. Disputes between the m narchs respecting the nature of this act, 32 Philip's attack on the English in Xaintong and destruction of the castle of Saintes, 35% Subsequent friendship of the two monarchs 393. Receives and endows the fugitive Rob of Artois, 395. His anger at the French Flemish assistance afforded to the Sorts 399. His preparations for war, 399, 400. H reprisals against Flanders, 399. Sends eroys to James van Arteveld, 400. Sends expedition to Cadsand, 400. Lays fes claim to the throne of France, 402. An appoints the Duke of Brabant his ric general in France, 402. Embarks with a army for Flanders, 402. Lukewarmness his allies, 402. Meets the Emperor at Cblentz, and is made imperial vicar-generali the Low Countries, 403. Marches with a army into France, 403. Meets the Fr army without fighting at St. Quentin. 44. Nature of Edward's claim to the Fre throne, 404-406. Sends his queen, Philip to gain over the Flemings, 408. Colle's great army and navy, 408. Completely e stroys the French fleet at L'Ecluse, 45 Marches with his allies into France, and s down before Tournay, 409-410. Challen Philip to single combat, 410. Concludes. six months' truce, 411. Prepares for an pedition into Brittany, 415. His vicariat called by the Emperor, 415. Sends a for under John Arteveld to Bayonne, and s other, under Robert of Artois, to Britta 415. Buries Robert of Artois in St. Pat in London, 416. Goes in person into B tany, but concludes a truce, 416. Straits which he was put to support his armies, 4. Recommences war, 418. Proposal to m his son, the Black Prince, Count of F
ders, 421. Sends a force under Lord Derby and Sir Walter Manny into France, 420. Marches to the relief of his troops, 423. Lands at La Hogue, 423. Takes the towns of the Cotentin, 423. And advances against Caen, 423. Which is taken, 423. His de- vastating march towards Paris, 424. Strikes northward, and defeats the people of Amiens, 425. Fords the Somme, and routs Gode- mar du Fay, 425. Encamps at Crecy, 426. Defeats the French there, 427. Besieges and takes Calais, 430–436. Proposes to marry his daughter Isabella to the young Count of Flanders, 433. Orders and fortifies Calais, and sends the knights captive to England, 437. Fixes the staple of tin, lead, and wool- len goods at Calais, 437. Concludes a truce | with Philip, 437. The truce set at naught, 437, 438. Geoffrey of Charny entrapped at Calais, 438. Edward's personal encounter with Eustace de Ribeaumont, 438. Loses a daughter from the plague, 440. Death of his antagonist, Philip VI., 441. Edward's power in France at this time, 446. His renewal of the war with France, 448. His great prepa- rations, 453. His ravages in the North of France, 454. Foray of the Black Prince in the South, 455. The French defeated by his son at Poitiers, 463. His mistrust of Charles of Navarre, 485. Terms demanded by him of France, 486. His demands rejected, 487. Takes an expedition to Calais, and marches to Rheims, 487. Levies war contributions on Burgundy and Nevers, 488. And encamps near Paris, 488. Concludes peace with France at Bretigny, 490. Offers to march in person to put down the freebooters, 515. War de- clared against him by Charles V. of France, 523. Convokes his parliament for supplies, 525. Defeat of his fleet, under the Earl of Pembroke, off La Rochelle, 529. Loses all the English possessions south of the Garonne, 532. Mans a fleet to invade France, but com- pelled to put back, 532. Loses Aquitaine, 532. Sends Sir Robert Knollis on a ma- rauding expedition into France, 533. Sends the Duke of Lancaster to march through Burgundy to Guienne, 535. Concludes a truce for two years, 537. While on his deathbed the French resume hostilities, 541. His death, 541.
Edward IV., King of England, proposed mar- riage between him and a princess of Savoy, ii. 265. Marries Lady Elizabeth Woodville, 265. His sister, Margaret, married to Charles the Rash, of Burgundy, 285. A prisoner in the hands of the Earl of Warwick, 296. Who becomes an exile in France, 296. Edward a fugitive in the Duke of Burgundy's court, 297. Who supplies him with money to enable him to recover his throne, 298. Incited by the
duke to invade France, 310. Lands at Ca- lais, and meets the Duke of Burgundy, 313. Marches towards St. Quentin, where he is de- ceived by St. Pol, 313. Abandoned by Bur- gundy, 314. Meets the King of France at Picquigny, and concludes a truce for seven years, 314. Awakened to the necessity of supporting the independence of the Flemings, 338. His danghter, Anne, betrothed to Philip, son of Maximilian I., 341. Effects of his bad faith and irresolution, 341.
Edward VI., King of England, renews the treaty of peace with France, ii. 586. Struggle in his dominions, 602, 603. Boulogne given up to the French, 604. Edward betrothed to the French princess, Elizabeth, 604. Edward, Prince of Wales (the Black Prince), proposal to make him Count of Flanders, i. 421. Accompanies his father to France with an army, 423. His devastating march to- wards Paris, 424. His part in the battle of Crecy, 427, 428. Wears the crest and plumes of the slain King of Bohemia, 429. the command of an expedition to Gascony, 453. His foray in Gascony, 454 455. Re- tires with immense spoil to Bordeaux, 455. Lands again at Bordeaux, and plunders the country northwards, 460. Outmarched by John, King of France, 461. The prince's position at Poitiers, 461, 462. Where he de- feats the French army, and takes the King prisoner, 463. Appointed by his father vice- regent over the Gascons, 497. Frais des hommages paid to his father and to him, 498, note. Applied to by the dethroned King of Castille, 511. His preparations for war against the new King of Castille, 512. Marches an army into Spain, 512. Gains the battle of Navarrete, 513, 514. Prevents Peter the Cruel from killing his prisoners, 514. His character as a commander and as a politician, 516. Causes of the disaffec- tion of the Gascon nobles to him, 517, 519. His debts incurred to restore Peter the Cruel, 519. Promulgates a hearth-tax in Gascony, 519. Struck by a mortal disease, 519. Ar- rangements for his marriage with the Princess of Flanders, 521. The marriage broken off by the influence of Charles V. over the Pope, 521. Edward summoned by Charles V. to Paris to answer the complaints of his Gascon nobles, 523. His increasing sickness, 525. His punishment of the town of Limoges, 527, 528. Removes to England in a sinking state, 528. His death, 541
Edmund, brother of Edward I. of England, sent to France to settle the question of Guienne, i. 307. Sent to defend Gascony, where he dies, 309
Edmund, Earl of Kent, capitulates at La Réole, i. 380
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