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    Rousseau and Revolution

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      financial policies of, 949

      pledges personal fortune to state, 949

      policies in States-General, 957–58

      prepares meeting of States-General, 949–51

      THIRD MINISTRY OF (1789–90), 963

      Necker, Suzanne, nee Curchod (1737–94), 103, 107, 118, 126, 353, 656, 797–99, 875

      charity of, 905

      Gibbon and, 865

      marries Jacques Necker, 802, 865

      personality and appearance of, 908

      salon in Paris (1765), 865, 908

      Nedim, Ottoman poet, 412–13

      Negapatam, 648

      Negroes, 732, 935; see also slavery and slave trade

      Nehra, Henriette de (fl. 1784), 953

      Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), 750

      Nelson’s Festivals and Fasts, 734

      Neuchâtel, 643

      Rousseau’s residence near, 191–92

      Neue teutsche Merkur, 576

      Neues Palais, Potsdam, 523, 524

      Neuf Soeurs Lodge, Freemasons, 869, 939

      Neumann, Johann Balthasar (1687–1753), 238, 426

      Neveu de Rameau, Le (Diderot), 101

      Newbery, John (1713–67), 814

      Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of (1693–1768), 691

      Newcastle, growth of, 681

      Newcomen, Thomas (1663–1729), 674

      “New Doctrine of Motion and Rest” (Kant), 533

      Newgate Gaol, 739

      New Jerusalem Church, 658

      New Marshalsea Prison, 738

      newspapers: in Austria, 346

      in England, 786

      in France, 915

      New Testament, 185, 194

      Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727), 13, 219, 280, 293–94, 532, 616

      Newton, John (1725–1807), 811

      Newton, Lord, 766

      New York, anti-British riots in, 710

      New Zealand, 669

      Ney, Michel, Maréchal (1769–1815), 606

      Nicholas II, Czar of Russia (r. 1894–1917), 468*

      Nicolai Klimii Iter subterraneum (Holberg), 650–51

      Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776–1831), 253, 808

      Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn (1757–1841), 486

      Niemetschek, 396

      Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844–1900), 29*

      Nikolai, Christoph Friedrich (1733–1811), 507, 510, 567, 638

      Nivernois, Louis-Jules Mancini Mazarini, Duc de (1716–98), 208

      Noailles, Maréchal Duc Adrien-Maurice de (1678–1766), 648

      Noailles, Vicomte Louis-Marie de (1756–1804), 898, 939

      nobility: in Austria, 351

      in Austrian Netherlands, 362

      Burke’s defense of, 723

      in Denmark, 649, 653

      in England, 669–70, 684, 732

      in France, 84, 280, 849, 850, 863, 872, 898–99, 903–4, 936, 944–48, 956–61

      Frederick II’s views on, 497

      French Revolution and, 899, 927–30

      in Germany, 497, 503, 504

      in Hungary, 341

      in Italy, 230, 249–50

      love of music, 367

      Mozart’s disdain for, 393, 401

      in Poland, 472–74, 476–77, 480–82, 484–85, 491

      in Portugal, 263–65, 268

      in Prussia, 497

      Rousseau attacks, 17

      in Russia, 422, 425, 429–30, 438, 443, 454–56, 470

      in Spain, 274, 290

      Sturm und Drang movement and, 522

      in Sweden, 654–55, 657, 663–64

      noble savage, legend of, 31

      Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), 750, 817

      Noot, Henri van den (1750–1827), 364

      Nordenflycht, Hedvig (1718–63), 659–60

      Normandy, bread riots in, 934

      North, Frederick, Lord, 2d Earl of Guilford (1732–92), 700–1, 794, 803

      American Revolution and, 711, 713–14

      Irish policies of, 761

      ministry of, 700–1, 706, 710–14, 761

      ministry with Fox, 715, 718

      on parliamentary debates, 701*

      policies toward American colonies, 710–11

      policy toward Catholics, 735

      policy toward India, 716

      resignation from government, 714

      North Briton, The, 702–3, 705, 786

      Norway, population of, 649

      Notebook (Boswell), 841

      Notes on Russian History (Catherine II), 463

      Notte, La (Parini), 335

      Nottingham, theater in, 740

      Nouveaux Essais sur l’ entendement humain (Leibniz), 534

      Nouvelle Héloïse, La (Rousseau), see Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse

      Nouvelles de la république des lettres, 253–54

      Nouvelles littéraires, 34

      novel, development of, 842

      Noverre, Jean-Georges (1727–1810), 100, 255, 368

      Novikov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1744–1818), 464–65, 469

      Nozze di Figaro, Le (Mozart), 404

      Nugent, Dr. Christopher (d. 1775), 827

      Nuits de Paris, Les (Restif de La Bretonne), 903, 919

      Nuncomar (d. 1775), 717

      nunneries: in Austria, 343, 358–59

      in France, 900

      in Russia, 452

      Nuri-Osmanieh, mosque of, 414

      Nymphenburg, 523

      Nystad, Peace of (1721), 653

      Oberkirch, Henriette-Louise, Baroness d’, 908

      Oberon (Wieland), 576

      Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (Kant), 534

      Observations sur le gouvernement … des Étatsunis d’ Amérique (Mably), 903

      Ochakov, 415, 430

      siege of, 460

      Ochs, Peter (fl. 1797), 645

      Oehlenschläger, Adam Gottlob (1779–1850), 650

      “Ode by Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale upon Their Supposed Nuptials” (Boswell), 837

      Ode to Joy (Schiller), 574–75

      “Ode to the Duty” (Derghavin), 464

      Oder River, 356

      Odessa, 459

      Odoardo II Farnese, Duke of Parma, 276

      Oeben, Jean-François (1685–1765), 107

      Oedipe a Colone (Sacchini), 334

      Oedipus (Sophocles), 604

      Oeser, Adam Friedrich (1717–99), 523, 557

      Oeuvres du philosophe de Sans-Souci (Frederick the Great), 59

      Ohio River Valley, French control of, 57

      O Hissope (Cruz e Silva), 269

      Olavide, Pablo (1726–1803), 280, 285–86, 288

      Old Believers, 438, 455

      Old Pretender, see Stuart, James Francis Edward

      Old Testament: Rousseau and, 185

      Voltaire’s attitude toward, 150

      Oldenburg, Duke of, 523

      Oleg (Catherine II), 463

      oligarchies: in Holland, 142

      in Switzerland, 142

      Olimpiade (Metastasio), 333

      Olimpiade, L ’ (Pergolesi), 256

      Oliva, “Baronne” d’ (fl. 1785), 942–43

      “Olney Hymns” (Cowper), 811

      “O my luve’s like a red, red rose” (Burns), 777

      “On Cannibals” (Montaigne), 23

      On Ecclesiastical and Civil Tolerance (Tamburini), 316

      On Grace and Dignity (Schiller), 594

      On Grace in Works of Art (Winckelmann), 328

      “On Instructions of Her Imperial Majesty … for the Drawing up of Laws” (Diderot), 448

      Only Possible Ground for Proving the Existence of God, The (Kant), 534

      On Mendelssohn and the Political Reform of the Jews (Mirabeau), 642

      On Music (Iriarte y Oropesa), 295

      Onslow, Col. George, later 1st Earl of Onslow (1731–1814), 706–7

      Ontario, Lake, French control of, 58

      “On the Contest Between the Good and Evil Principles for the Control of Man” (Kant), 545

      “On the Effects of Poetry upon the Customs and Morals of the Nations” (Herde
    r), 577–78

      On the Failure of All Philosophical Attempts at Theodicy (Kant), 544

      “On the Power of the Mind to Master the Feeling of Illness by Force of Resolution” (Kant), 549

      “On the Spirit of Hebrew Poetry” (Herder), 578

      On the Teachings of Spinoza (Jacobi), 565

      O Oriente (Macedo), 269–70

      opera, 923

      in Austria, 367–73, 376, 379–80

      in England, 223–24, 746

      in France, 25–26, 99, 256, 909–10

      in Germany, 223–24, 525, 527–28

      Gluck’s reforms in, 368–70

      influence of Italian, 224

      in Italy, 222–24, 254–56, 333–35

      melody versus action in, 335

      origins of, 224

      poetry and, 223

      Rousseau’s definition of, 26

      in Russia, 425, 466

      in Spain, 292

      opera buffa, 100, 223, 255, 367

      Opéra-Comique, establishment of, 100

      opera seria, 100, 255, 367

      Opie, Amelia (1769–1853), 787

      opium, 729

      Oppenheimer, Joseph (1692?–1738), 634

      Opticks (Newton), 219, 616

      optics, Goethe’s work on, 615–16

      Opus postumum (Kant), 549–50

      oratory: English, 707

      French, 99

      orchestras, 525–26

      Orfeo ed Euridice, libretto (Calzabigi), 369

      Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck), 368–69, 371, 373, 909

      Orford, Margaret Walpole, Countess of, 328

      Origin of Species (Darwin), 889

      Orléans, Louis, Duc d’ (1703–52), 17

      Orléans, Louise-Marie de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Duchesse d’ (1753–1821), 955

      Orléans, Louis-Philippe, Duc d’ (1725–85), 94, 123, 850

      Orléans, Louis-Philippe-Joseph (“Philippe-Égalité), Duc d’ (1747–93), 898, 962

      aid to revolutionaries, 955–56

      early life, 955

      exiled by Louis XVI, 946

      as Freemason, 939

      liberalism of, 957

      marriage, 955

      in States General, 960

      Orléans, Philippe II, Duc d’, Regent of France (r. 1715–23), 90, 277, 906, 955

      Orléans, factories in, 932

      Orlov, Alexei Grigorievich (1737–1809), 439, 458

      aids Catherine II coup, 439–40

      in death of Peter III, 442

      Orlov, Feodor Grigorievich (1741–90), 439

      Orlov, Grigori Grigorievich (1734–83), 437, 457, 468

      aids Catherine’s coup, 439–40

      arrests Choglokov, 443–44

      as Catherine’s lover, 442, 445

      Catherine’s rewards, 442

      policies of, 445

      Orphan of China (Voltaire), 103

      Orpheus, 253

      Orry, Jean (1652–1719), 277

      Orsini-Rosenberg, Count Franz (1723–96), 395

      Os Burros (Macedo), 270

      Osorio de Zuñiga, Don Manuel, 305

      ospedali singers, 232

      Ossian, The Works of (Macpherson), 559, 567, 767–68, 809

      Ossory, Lord (fl. 1765), 209

      Ostend, 361

      Ostermann, Count Andrei Ivanovich (1686–1747), 429–31

      Osuna, Duchess of, 291

      Osuna, Duke of, 274, 301

      Oswego, Fort, capture of (1756), 58

      Othello (Shakespeare), 511

      Ottoboni, Pietro, Cardinal (fl. 1708), 256

      Ottoman Turks, 411, 414; see also Turkey

      Otway, Thomas (1652–85), 741

      Oudh, begums of, 718, 720

      Oudh, Nawab of, 718

      Oudry, Jean-Baptiste (1689–1755), 120

      “Outline and Announcement of a Course of Lectures on Physical Geography” (Kant), 533

      Oxford Symphony (Haydn), 377, 381

      Pacassi, Niccolo (1716–90), 345

      Pacchierotti, Gasparo (1744–1821), 333

      Pacte de Famille (1761), 60, 76, 89

      “Pacte de Famine,” 76

      Padua, 220, 229

      theaters in, 220

      university in, 219

      Paestum, Greek temples of, 248, 327

      Paine, Thomas (1737–1809), 340, 725

      Rousseau’s influence on, 891

      Voltaire’s influence on, 881

      painting: bourgeois, 113–114

      in England, 750–58, 888

      in France, 911–14

      in Germany, 523–24

      in Holland, 647

      in Italy, 227, 235–39, 248, 331–332

      neoclassical, 912–13

      in Portugal, 261

      in Russia, 466–67

      in Scotland, 765

      in Spain, 298–309

      in Sweden, 662

      Paisiello, Giovanni (1740–1816), 334, 388, 466

      Pajou, Augustin (1730–1809), 106, 107, 109, 911

      Palais-Bourbon, 911

      Palais de Justice, 910

      Palais-Royal, 911, 955

      Palatinate, Bavaria united with, 354

      Palatine College in Milan, 321

      Palermo, 589

      university in, 219

      witch-burnings in, 316

      Palestine, 411

      Paley, William (1743–1805), 730, 755

      Palissot de Montenoy, Charles (1730–1814), 108, 120

      Palladio, Andrea (1518–80), 229, 248, 587, 747

      pamphleteering in France, 94, 915 Panckoucke, Charles-Joseph (1736–98), 925

      Panin, Nikita Ivanovich (1718–83), 439, 457, 483

      Panin, Piotr Ivanovich (1721–89), 455

      Pannini, Giuseppe (fl. 1762), 247

      Pantalone (comic character), 232, 243

      pantaloons, 231

      Panthéon, 880

      Paoli, Pasquale di (1725–1807), 207, 3l2–13

      Boswell and, 782–83

      conflicts with French, 313

      early life of, 312

      French depose, 205

      leads rebellion against Genoa, 313

      papacy, 310

      Austria and, 343

      basis of power and influence, 316

      conflicts with Catholic monarchs, 317–18

      factional conflicts in, 317

      Germany and, 504–5

      Goethe on, 316

      internationalism of, 316

      Jesuit expulsions and, 316–18

      Jews and, 631

      material interests of, 316

      Napoleon and, 319

      nationalism and, 316

      Portugal’s break with, 267

      response to Enlightenment, 316

      restoration of Jesuit order by, 319

      Spanish concordat with, 279

      Turkey and, 457

      under Clement XIII, 317

      under Clement XIV, 317–19

      under Pius IV, 319

      Papal States, 217

      congestion of expelled Jesuits in, 317

      Jesuit colleges in, 219

      opera houses in, 223

      popes and, 246–47

      size of, 244; see also papacy

      Rome

      Papin, Denis (1647–1712), 673

      Paradise Lost (Milton), 773, 842

      Paradox of the Actor, The (Diderot), 103

      Paraguay: communistic practices of Jesuits in, 80, 83, 262

      Indian revolt in, 262

      Jesuits in, 281, 283

      Paret y Alcázar, Luis (1746–99), 299

      Paride ed Elena (Gluck), 370

      Parini, Giuseppe (1729–99), 335–36

      Paris: book trade in, 71

      Chamfort on, 915

      dirt in, 933

      economic activity in, 932–33

      great salons in, 118–31

      Hôtel-Dieu, 353

      hunger in, 71, 860, 933, 961

      intellectual life in, 906

      key role in French Revolution, 961–63

      life in, 15, 71

      Louis XVI’s aid to, 857

    &nbs
    p; morals of, 19, 903

      music in, 368, 370–73

      population of, 71, 933

      press in, 915

      proletariat in, 933

      revolutionary ferment in, 954–57, 959–62

      riots in, 934, 946, 956, 961–63

      stores in, 936

      theater audience in, 241

      wealth of, 71

      Paris, Peace of (1763), 62

      Paris, Treaty of (1782–83), 648, 714

      Paris, Parlement of, 90–91, 353, 849

      alliance with nobility, 944

      banishments of, 91, 946

      burns Émile, 190

      conflicts with Brienne, 946–48

      conflicts with Louis XV, 93–94

      conflicts with Turgot, 861–63

      “Declaration of Rights” of (1787), 947

      Diamond Necklace Affair and, 943

      Diderot’s defense of, 93

      orders arrest of Rousseau, 189–90

      organization of States General and, 949

      prohibits labor unions, 933

      Voltaire’s attack on, 92–93

      Paris Conservatoire de Musique, 909

      Paris-Duverney, Joseph (1684–1770), 920, 922

      Paris-Montmartel, Jean (1690–1766), 936

      Park, Anna (fl. 1790), 777

      parks in England, 748

      parlements, 89–95, 928, 930

      allegiance to nobility, 949

      attack on Cour Plénière (1787), 947–948

      authority of, 849

      conservatism of, 90, 93

      functions of, 90

      hatred of Mme. de Pompadour, 67

      Louis XV and, 90–95

      Louis XVI and, 858, 946–48

      as supporters of nobility, 849; see also Paris, Parlement of

      Parliament, British, 683–707

      buying up of seats in, 670, 685

      demands for annual, 704

      destruction of machines and, 679

      economic policies of, 67

      electoral districts and, 684–85

      forbids labor unions, 680

      George III’s conflict with, 61, 683, 686–88, 693, 697–701

      Irish question in, 760–62

      parlements compared with, 90

      powers of, 686, 709–10

      rotten boroughs and, 685, 733

      taxation of American colonies and, 709–10

      voting procedures in elections of, 685

      Parliament, Irish, 760–61

      Parma, duchy of, 228, 239, 278

      church lands in, 224

      expulsion of Jesuits from, 317

      Inquisition abolished in, 316

      social reforms in, 311–12

      Spanish control of, 217

      Parma, Duke of: in 1748–65, see Felipe, Duke of Parma; in 1765–1801, see Ferdinand III

      Parsons, Nancy, 731–32

      Pascal, Blaise (1623–62), 23, 139, 294, 514, 889, 890

      Pasch, Johan (1706–69), 662

      Pasch, Lorenz, the Elder (1702–66), 662

      Pasch, Lorenz, the Younger (1773–1805), 662

      Pasch, Ulrica (1735–96), 662

      Passek, Lieut. P. B. (fl. 1762), 439

      Passerowitz, Treaty of (1718), 415

     


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