EXPLANATORY NOTES
August 10 (1793): Anniversary of the storming of the Bastille and the provisional dethronement of Louis XVI.
Capet: The name of an ancient dynasty of kings in France (the "Capetian Line"), of which Louis XVI was a descendent.
Catherine II (1729–1796): Empress of Russia (1762–1796).
Coblenz: A city on the west bank of the Rhine, at the confluence with the Moselle, in which many emigré noblemen gathered and intrigued after the Revolution.
Danton, Georges Jacques (1759–1794): A French revolutionary leader, member of the Convention; he was tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal, and guillotined May 4, 1794; a volume of this series is devoted to his speeches.
Desmoulins, Benoit Camille (1760–1794): French revolutionist and writer; author of the Histoire des Brissotins; guillotined May 4, 1794, together with Danton.
Don Inigo Lopez de Recalde; Ignatius Loyola: Founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order).
Feuillants: A political club established at Paris during the Revolution. It was first called the Club of 1789, receiving its later name from the convent of the Feuillants, where it held its meetings.
Girond: The moderate Republican Party during the First French Revolution (1792); so called from the department whence its earliest members were sent up as representatives.
Jacobins: A French revolutionary club, so called from the meeting in a hall of the former Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Honoré, Paris. It called itself "The Society of Friends of the Constitution." Its twelve hundred branch societies, led by Robespierre, Danton and Marat, had an enormous influence. It controlled the Legislative Assembly after 1791, and organized the Reign of Terror and the agitation against the king. It was overthrown in November, 1794, but not dissolved until 1799.
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