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    Rousseau and Revolution

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      atheism of, 183

      death of, 893

      French Revolution and, 940

      at Mme. Geoffrin’s salon, 120

      Gibbon and, 799

      on Index Expurgatorius, 316

      opposition to monarchy, 897

      Rousseau and, 18, 27–28, 153, 209

      Holberg, Ludvig von (1684–1754), 645–46, 649–51

      Holland, 143, 645–49

      agriculture in, 646

      aid to Turkey, 363

      art in, 647

      decline in naval supremacy, 57

      description of, 645–46

      economy of, 646

      education in, 647

      England and, 277, 648, 699, 714

      France and, 648–49

      French Revolution and, 364, 648–49

      India and, 715

      Jews in, 635, 646–47

      in League of Armed Neutrality (1780), 648

      literature in, 647

      oligarchy in, 142

      Patriot party in, 648–49

      political unrest in, 648

      prisons in, 738

      Protestantism in, 142

      in Quadruple Alliance (1718), 278

      religious tolerance in, 646–47

      Revolutionary War and, 648

      in War of the Austrian Succession (1743), 648

      Holland, Caroline, Lady, nee Lennox, 693

      Holland, Henry Fox, 1st Baron (1705–74), 364, 693

      Holstein-Augustenburg, Duke of, see Friedrich Christian, Duke

      Holstein-Gottorp, Karl Friedrich, Duke of, see Karl Friedrich

      Holstein-Gottorp, Karl Friedrich Ulrich, Duke of, see Peter III, Czar of Russia

      Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of (fl. 1770), 568

      “Holy Fair” (Burns), 773

      Holy Roman Empire: structure and scope of, 341, 502; see also Austria

      “Holy Willie’s Prayer” (Burns), 773–74

      Homage à Haydn (Debussy), 381

      Homberg, Herz (fl. 1778), 639

      Home, Henry, see Kames, Henry Home, Lord

      Home, John (1722–1808), Scottish playwright, 699, 764

      home furnishings, see furniture

      Homer (9th cent, B.C.), 253, 485, 519, 528, 599, 750, 837

      Homme aux quarante écus, L ’ (Voltaire), 75–76, 136, 143

      Homme machine, L ’ (La Mettrie), 246–47

      Homme personnel, L ’ (Barthe), 874

      homosexuality, 731

      Hontheim, Johann Nikolaus von (Justinus Febronius; 1701–90), 351, 504–5, 560

      Horace (65 B.C.–8 B.C.), 528

      Horen, Die (periodical), 597

      Horn, Count Arvid Bernhard (1664–1742), 654

      Horn, Count Karl (d. 1823), 664–65

      hospitals, 353, 453

      Hôtel-Dieu, 353

      Hôtel des Invalides, 962

      Hôtel Salm, 910

      Houasse, Michel-Ange (d. 1730), 298

      Houasse, René-Antoine (1645–1710), 298

      Houdetot, Comte d’, 156

      Houdetot, Élisabeth-Sophie de Bellegarde, Comtesse d’ (1730–1813), 118, 152, 156–58, 162, 164, 167, 869

      as model for Julie, 157

      salon of, 907

      Houdon, Jean-Antoine (1741–1828), 466, 911–12, 939

      House of Commons, 683, 699

      appointive places in administration, 686

      corruption in, 685–86

      enactment of legislation in, 686–87

      parties in, see Tories and Whigs;

      press freedom and, 707

      privileges of, 685

      representation in, 685

      House of Lords, 703

      enactment of legislation by, 685–86

      Houses of Parliament, architecture of, 748

      see also Parliament, English

      Howard, Castle, 235

      Howard, John (1726?–90), 737–38

      Howe, Sir William, 8th Viscount Howe (1729–1814), 869

      Huber, Ludwig Ferdinand (1764–1804), 572–73

      Hubertusburg, armistice of (1763), 62

      Hudson, Thomas (1701–79), 751

      Hugo, Victor (1802–85), 104, 889

      Huguenots, 88

      Hulegaard, Arense (fl. 1759), 651

      Humbert I, Count of Savoy, see Umberto I

      Humboldt, Alexander von (1769–1859), 273

      Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767–1835), 641

      Hume, David (1711–76), 120, 125, 183, 280, 531–32, 537, 594, 762, 764, 766, 773, 794–95, 797

      d’Alembert and, 127, 892

      ethics of, 739

      Gibbon and, 799–800

      as an historian, 766

      influence of, 536, 543, 768–69, 889

      Samuel Johnson’s attitude toward, 834

      in Lespinasse salon, 126

      on physiocrats, 75

      Reid and, 764–65

      Rousseau and, 207, 209, 211–14

      supports American colonies, 711

      tranquillity in face of death, 838

      on Tristram Shandy, 788

      on Voltaire, 149

      Hummel, Johann Nepomuk (1778–1837), 380, 525

      Hungary, 354

      agriculture in, 341

      Austria and, 341

      disorder in, 461

      gold mines in, 344

      Jews in, 631

      Joseph II’s reforms in, 358

      population of, 341

      revolt against Joseph II, 360–61, 363–64

      revolt of nobles in, 357

      social classes in, 341

      taxation in, 341

      Turkey and, 62, 415

      Hunter, John (1728–93), 764

      Hunter, William (1718–83), 764

      Husein, Shah of Persia (r. 1694–1722), 418

      Huss, John (Jan Hus; 1369?–1415), 342

      Hutcheson, Francis (1694–1746), 320, 733, 764

      Hutchinson, Thomas (1711–80), 710

      Hutton, James (1726–97), 764

      Hyde Park, 744

      “Hymn to the Sun” (Naruszewicz), 485

      Ibrahim Pasha, Turkish Vizier (d. 1730), 415

      Idea of a Patriot King (Bolingbroke), 687

      Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (Hutcheson), 320

      Ideen zu einer allemeinen Geschichte (Kant), 548

      Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (Herder), 578–80

      Iffland, August Wilhelm (1759–1814), 571

      Iglesia Metropolitana della Nuestra Señora del Pilar, 300

      Ignorant P.hilosopher, The (Voltaire), 138

      Île de St.-Pierre, Rousseau at, 206

      Iliad (Homer), 528; Pope’s translation of, 837

      Illuminati, Order of, 507

      Imhof, Baron (fl. 1768), 717

      Imhof, Marion, Baroness, 717

      Imitation of Christ, The (Thomas a Kempis), 886

      Imperial Diet, Holy Roman Empire, 502

      Impey, Sir Elijah (1732–1809), 717

      Important Examination of Milord Bolingbroke (Voltaire), 138

      Inchbald, Elizabeth, nee Simpson (1753–1821), 787

      Independents (Puritans), 735, 760

      Index Expurgatorius (Index Librorum Prohibitorum), 247, 285, 316, 358

      India, 698

      England and, 39, 57–59, 669, 689, 693, 717–18

      France and, 38–39, 57–59, 62, 68, 715

      Holland and, 715

      Mysore revolt in, 717–18

      Persian invasion of, 419

      Seven Years’ War and, 57–59

      India Reform Bill (1783), 718

      Indians, American, see American Indians

      Industrial Revolution, 669–79, 842, 964

      IN ENGLAND: causes of, 669–71

      consequences, 680–82

      factory system, 676–80, 682, 732

      machine-wrecking by workers, 679

      pauperism and, 677, 679

      science and, 669, 671, 681

      social effects, 670–71, 676–80

      technological elements, 671–76

      transportation and, 672

      wages and, 677


      IN FRANCE, 932

      IN SCOTLAND, 763

      Industrious Bee, The (periodical), 464–65

      industry and French Revolution, 931–34

      Informe sobre un proyecto de ley agraria (Jovellanos), 287

      Ingénu, L ’ (Voltaire), 31, 138

      Ingermanland, 653

      Innocent XIII (Michelangelo dei Conti), Pope (r. 1721–24), 245–46, 278

      Innocenza giustificata, L’ (Gluck and Durazzo), 368

      Innsbruck, University of, 358, 360

      inoculation, see smallpox inoculation

      Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (Reid), 764

      Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Smith), see Wealth of Nations

      Inquisition, 253

      in Austria, 343

      Casanova and, 323

      in Italy, 225, 229, 252, 316

      Jews and, 630–31, 633

      Johnson’s support for, 834

      in Portugal, 260, 267–70

      in Spain, 275–76, 279–80, 292, 294–95, 302, 306

      Institutes (Calvin), 177

      Instructions (Catherine the Great), 450–51

      internationalism of papacy, 316

      Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, An (Bentham), 739

      inventions: in France, 932

      Industrial Revolution and, 671–76

      Iphigenia in Tauris (Guillard), 372

      Iphigénie (Racine), 370

      Iphigénie auf Tauris (Goethe), 584, 587–88, 601, 627

      Iphigénie en Aulide (Gluck), 101, 335, 370–71

      Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck), 372

      Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccini), 373

      Iran, see Persia

      Ireland, 759–62

      agriculture in, 759–60

      Burke’s support for, 693

      Catholic Church in, 283, 760–62

      commerce and industry in, 759, 761

      culture in, 759–60

      England and, 671, 704, 726, 759–62

      marriage in, 759

      population of, 759–60

      poverty and crime in, 759

      Protestants in, 759–62

      rebellion of “Whiteboys” in, 760

      Irene (Johnson), 819, 830

      Irène (Voltaire), 136, 874

      Iriarte y Oropesa, Don Tomás de (1750–91), 291

      iron industry in England, 671–72

      iron law of wages, 79

      Irving, Sir Henry (1838–1905), 740

      Irving, Washington (1783–1859), 815

      Isabella of Parma (d. 1763), 1st wife of Emperor Joseph II, 347

      Isfahan, 419

      Isham, Col. Ralph Heyward, 779*

      Isla, José Francisco de (1703–81), 294–95

      Islam, 411–21

      adultery in, 413

      art in, 414

      childrearing in, 416

      crafts in, 416, 421

      education in, 412

      geographic area of, 411

      Gibbon’s treatment of, 808

      morality in, 416

      music in, 416–17

      poetry in, 412–13, 421

      prostitution in, 416

      public baths in, 413

      in Russia, 452

      science in, 412

      sects in, 411–12

      slavery in, 413–14, 420

      see also Afghanistan;

      Egypt;

      Mohammedanism;

      Persia;

      Turkey

      Ismailovsky Regiment, 439

      Israel ben Eliezer, see Baal Shem-Tob

      Istoria civile del regno di Napoli (Giannone), 250

      Istria, 229

      Italian nationalism and Alfieri, 340

      Italy, 19, 310–40

      academies and universities in, 218–19

      agriculture in, 217

      architecture in, 247

      aristocracy in, 230

      art in, 227, 235–39, 247–48, 331–32

      Austria and, 38, 341

      capitalism in, 230

      censorship in, 220, 225

      comedy in, 239–44

      commerce and industry in, 218

      crime in, 319

      description of, 217–18

      Enlightenment in, 220, 230

      Freemasonry in, 220

      French Revolution and, 311

      happiness of, 217

      heresies in, 220

      in Holy Roman Empire, 341

      Inquisition in, 229, 316

      intellectual life in, 218–20

      Jesuits and education in, 219

      Jews in, 250

      legal reform in, 320–21

      libraries in, 219

      literature in, 220, 239–44, 335–36

      marriage and family life in, 218–19, 230

      moral laxity of, 225

      music in, 220–24, 226–27, 332–35, 373, 367

      Napoleon and, 311

      neoclassical style and, 325–31

      opera houses in, 223

      opera in, 222–24, 254–57, 333–35, 527–38

      periodicals in, 220

      population of, 217

      poverty in, 217

      prostitution in, 218, 225, 230

      religion in, 224–26

      singing in, 220, 222–24, 333

      social classes in, 218, 230

      Spanish ambitions in, 277–78

      theater in, 220, 336–40

      wars of succession in, 217

      see also papacy

      Iuvara, Filippo (1676?–1736), 226, 297

      Ivan V Alexeevich, Czar of Russia (r. 1682–99), 429

      Ivan VI, Czar of Russia (r. 1740–41), 430

      murder of, 443, 447

      Ivy House Works, 749

      Ivy Lane Club, 822, 840

      Izmail, battle of (1790), 461

      Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich (1743–1819), 516, 562, 565, 578, 613, 895, 899

      Goethe and, 563–64

      philosophy of, 519

      Rousseau’s influence on, 890

      Jacobins, 939

      Jafar, Mir, see Mir Jafar

      Jahn, Otto (1813–69), 407

      Jamaica, 669

      James, William (1842–1910), 739

      James I, King of England (r. 1603–25), King of Scotland as James VI (r. 1567–1625), 779

      James II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (r. 1685–88), 705, 711, 735

      James II, King of Scotland (r. 1437–60), 779

      “James III,” of England, see Stuart, James Francis Edward

      James VI, King of Scotland, see James I, King of England

      Janissaries, 414

      Jansen, Cornells (1585–1638), 646

      Jansenists: in Austria, 359

      in France, 85, 90–91, 193, 246

      in Holland, 646

      in Italy, 225

      Jesuits and, 246

      Jassy, Treaty of (1792), 461, 488

      Jaucourt, Chevalier (later Marquis) Louis de (1704–79), 102, 875

      Jaurès, Jean-Léon (1859–1914), 929

      Jay, John (1745–1829), 871

      Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Citoyen de Genève, à Christophe de Beaumont, Archevêque de Paris (Rousseau), 195, 197

      Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826): on American Indians, 891

      French Enlightenment and, 76, 867, 891, 899

      Jeffries, John (1744–1819), 933

      Jehan, Shah, see Shah Jehan

      Jena: battle of (1808), 530, 606, 627

      Museum of Mineralogy at, 615

      University of, 545, 618

      Jeppe of the Hill (Holberg), 650

      Jerome of Prague (1360?–1416), 342

      Jerusalem, Karl Wilhelm (d. 1772), 561–63

      Jerusalem (Mendelssohn), 640

      Jesuits, 241, 310, 914

      abolition of order by Clement XIV (1773), 318, 351

      accounts of Indians by, 31

      attacks against Rousseau, 185

      in Austria, 351–52

      in Brazil, 263

      in China, 225, 318

      com
    munistic practices in Paraguay, 80, 83, 262

      competition with other orders, 285

      conflict with kings, 226

      in France, 89, 185

      Frederick II and, 319

      Freemasons and, 939

      in Italy, 219, 224–26, 230, 310

      Jansenists and, 246

      origin and purposes of, 283

      in Paraguay, 80, 83, 262, 281, 283

      popularity of, 284–85

      in Portugal, 260, 262–68, 271–72

      in Prussia, 499

      reproved by Benedict XIV, 225

      restoration by Pius VII, 319

      in Russia, 452

      in Spain, 281, 283–85, 293–94

      structure of, 507

      Voltaire on, 137

      EXPULSIONS OF: from France, 88, 92, 266

      from Naples, 284, 315

      papacy and, 316–18

      from Parma, 284, 317

      from Philippines, 284

      from Portugal, 266–67, 317

      from Spain, 266, 281, 283–85, 293, 317

      from Spanish America, 284

      Jesus Christ, loyalty to Judaism, 629

      Jews, 252, 629–42

      art and literature of, 636–37, 641

      in Austria, 343, 352, 357, 631–32, 641–42

      in banking and finance, 630

      in Bohemia, 631–32, 641

      castes among, 630

      in Denmark, 635

      in England, 635, 684

      in France, 91, 630, 642

      French Revolution and, 642

      in Galicia, 632, 641

      in Germany, 499, 507, 517, 632, 634, 639, 642

      Gibbon’s discussion of, 802

      Goethe’s interest in, 556, 562

      Hasidism among, 636

      Haskalah movement among, 641–42

      in Holland, 635, 637, 642, 646–47

      in Hungary, 631

      influence of religion on, 629

      Inquisition and, 630–631, 633

      intellectual liberation of, 637–42

      in Islam, 632

      in Italy, 250, 631, 642

      Lessing’s views on, 514–15

      massacres by Cossacks, 633–34

      messianism among, 635–37

      in Moravia, 632

      mystical movements among, 635–37

      Napoleon and, 631

      papacy and, 631, 633

      in Poland, 472, 475, 482, 632–34, 636, 641

      in Portugal, 260, 631

      in Prussia, 499

      ritual-murder trials against, 633

      Rousseau on, 629–30

      in Russia, 452, 632–33, 641

      Seven Years’ War and, 53

      in Silesia, 632

      in Spain, 275–76, 285, 287, 630–31

      in Sweden, 635, 657

      in Switzerland, 639

      in Turkey, 632

      in United States, 642

      Voltaire’s attitude toward, 629–30

      Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (1720–60), Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst, 121, 433

      John, King of England (r. 1199–1216), 683

      John III (Jan) Sobieski, King of Poland (r. 1674–96), 256, 411

      John V, King of Portugal (r. 1706–50), 257, 260–61, 269

      appoints Pombal to ministry, 262

     


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