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INDEX

Abelard, philosophy of, 496

Aberdeen, Earl of, and Lamartine, 416

Absolute government, dangers of, 133

Absolutism of the State enhanced by the French Revolution, 182, 183

Abuses, sapping liberty in the Union, safeguards provided against by the Confederacy, 141

Accolti, Cardinal, silence as to the second dispensation, 48-9

Adams, John, 380

Adams, John, President, on the weakness of the American Constitution, 129

Adrian, Cardinal, see Hadrian

Adrian VI., Pope, election of, Wolsey's disappointment at, 11; attitude of, to dispensations, 31; on the cause of corruption in the Church, 67

Albert, Prince, Consort, his action with respect to the Spanish marriages, 478

Albrecht, on the errors in his treatise on early law, 384

Albrecht, Archduke of Austria, victor at Custozza, 206

conference of, with Napoleon III., 208-9; Lebrun and, 209-12

Alencon, Margaret, Duchess of, marriage schemed for, her second husband, 15 & note

Alexander I., Czar of Russia, and Napoleon I., 412, 413; advice of, on his second marriage, 445

Alexander VI., Pope, adulation of papacy during time of, 440

character of, according to Gregorovius, 66-7; as estimated by Creighton, 434

attitude to, of France, and other countries, 69-70; joint embassy of protest to, from Spain and Portugal, 71

besieged in St. Angelo, 69; his flight, 70

commission of reforming Cardinals appointed by, 72

invalidity of his election, 67-9, 71, 74

policy as sovereign, its effects, 67, 74 et seq.

policy—

(a) Use of temporal means, 74, 79
(b) Use of spiritual means, 74-9

relations of, with Caesar Borgia, 79 et seq.

rising against, and bribery, 438

and Savonarola, 72, 81, 429

successes of, outstripping his designs, 81-2

death of, and its causes discussed, 84; Creighton on, 430-31; Priuli on, 432; Villari on, 430

Alexander VII., Pope, negotiations with, of de Retz on behalf of Charles II., 91

Charles II. 's offered submission to, 95-7

views of, on religious character of Charles II., 93-4

Alliances, France's need of, before 1870., 207, 217; and failure to secure, 217, 225

Almirante, Life of, fabulous, 364

Almonte, General, mission of, to Mexico, 151, 153, 154

Alsace-Lorraine, the price of peace, 1870., 251

Alviano, insults Cæsar Borgia, 73

Amboise, Cardinal Georges d', 68

America, see also Mexico and Mexican Empire}}

United States of, adoption of a presidential form of government, 450

after the war, 127

the Civil War (q.v.) in, its place in history, 123