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    Rousseau and Revolution

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      Potocki, Antoni (fl. 1744), 475

      Potocki, Count Stanislas Felix (1752–1805), 473, 488, 490

      Potsdam, 523–24

      Potter, John (d. 1747), Archbishop of Canterbury, 703

      Potter, Thomas (d. 1759), 703

      Pottle, Frederick A., 779*

      Poussin, Gaspard (Gaspard Dughet; 1613–75), 248

      Poussin, Nicolas (1594–1665), 327, 466, 750

      power looms, 673

      Pozzuoli, 327

      Prado (Madrid), 289, 290

      Praga, 490, 492

      Prague, 641

      culture in, 342

      siege of (1757), 47

      university at, 360

      Praslin, César-Gabriel de Choiseul, Duc de (1712–85), 88, 447

      Pratt, Sir Charles (1714–94), 703

      Prayers and Meditations (Johnson), 734

      Précis du siècle de Louis XV (Voltaire), 137

      Précis sur M. Rousseau (La Tour), 214

      Preobrazhensky Regiment, 440

      Pre-Raphaelites, 888

      Presbyterians, 735, 760, 763

      press, freedom of: in England, 706–7

      French Revolution and, 940

      Goethe’s opposition to, 623

      Voltaire’s support for, 146

      see also censorship

      Pressburg, 360

      Prete Rosso, Ii, see Vivaldi

      Preveza, 229

      Prévost, Abbé (Antoine-François Prévost d’Exiles; 1697–1763), 119, 169, 842, 887

      Price, Richard (1723–91), 722–23

      Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804), 734

      ethics of, 739

      on Paris, 933

      Prince Khlor (Catherine II), 463, 464

      Princesse de Babylone, La (Voltaire), 136

      Princesse de Clèves, La (La Fayette), 169

      Principi di una scienza nuova … (Vico), 251, 254

      Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (Paley), 735

      printing press, 266

      prisons: in England, 737–38

      in France, 867

      in Holland, 738

      in Rome, 245

      Pritchard, Hannah, nee Vaughn (1711–68), 740

      Privy Council of Weimar, 581, 589

      Procope (café), 99

      Profession de foi d’un théiste (Voltaire), 136

      Profession de foi en musique française (Arnaud), 372

      progressive education, 888

      Projet concernant de nouveaux signes pour la notation musicale (Rousseau), 15

      Projet de constitution pour la Corse (Rousseau), 204–5

      Prokofiev, Sergei (1891–1953), 243*

      Prolegomena to Every Future Metaphysic That Will Be Able to Appear as Science (Kant), 539–40

      Prolegomena to Homer (Wolf), 253

      proletariat: in France, 933–34

      in Naples, 249

      Rousseau’s opinion of, 173

      in Spain, 274

      Voltaire’s opinion of, 174; see also workers

      Prometheus (Goethe), 620

      property: French Revolution and, 937–38

      Rousseau’s views on, 29–30, 32–34, 174

      Voltaire’s views on, 141; see also communist theories

      Propriété, c’est le vol, La (Proudhon), 938

      Prospectus d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain (Condorcet), 895–97

      prostitution: in Austria, 344

      in England, 731–32, 744–45

      in France, 98, 903

      in Italy, 218, 225, 230

      Romantic Movement and, 888

      in Scotland, 763

      Protestant Association, 735

      Protestantism: in Austria, 343, 352, 357

      in England, 142

      in France, 91, 857, 950

      in Germany, 64, 142, 502

      Goethe’s views on, 620

      in Holland, 142, 646

      in Ireland, 759–62

      in Moravia, 353

      in Poland, 472, 475, 480

      Rousseau and, 5–6 26–27, 184–85

      in Scotland, 763

      in Spain, 285

      territory held by, 316

      Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809–65), 174, 938

      Provence, 954

      Provence, Comte de, see Louis XVIII

      Prussia, 356, 364

      acquisition of Bayreuth and Ansbach, 354

      agriculture in, 500–1

      alliance with England (1756), 432

      alliance with Turkey (1790), 363

      army of, 43, 62, 497, 500, 686

      censorship abolished in 547

      clergy and religion in, 499

      conscription in, 62

      despotism in, 530, 848

      economy of, 43, 500–1

      education in, 500

      espionage system of, 43

      feudalism in, 43, 500–1

      fragmentation of, 43

      Jews in, 499

      in League of Armed Neutrality (1780), 457

      in League of Princes (1785), 362

      legal reform in, 500

      in Napoleonic wars, 530, 606

      Poland and, 474, 479–84, 487–88, 490–92

      population of, 43, 63

      reign of Frederick the Great, see Frederick II the Great;

      religious tolerance in, 499, 540

      Revolutionary France and, 488

      Russia and, 460–61, 484

      in Seven Years’ War, see Frederick II the Great, IN SEVEN YEARS’ WAR;

      state monopolies in, 501

      social classes in, 497, 500–1

      Sweden and, 653–54, 663

      taxation in, 500–1

      territorial acquisitions of, 653

      torture abolished in, 321

      West, 484

      Prynne, William (1600–69), 163

      Public Advertiser, The, 705–6, 786

      Public Ledger, The, 786, 814

      public libraries, 914; see also libraries

      public sanitation, 728

      Puccini, Giacomo (1858–1924), 243*

      Puchberg, Michael (fl. 1788), 405–6

      Pufendorf, Samuel von (1632–94), 171, 177

      Pugachev, Emelyan Ivanovich (1726–75), 455, 464, 469

      Pugnani, Gaetano (1731–98), 332–33

      Pulaski, Casimir (1748?–79), 481

      Pulaski, Józef (fl. 1750), 481

      Pulcinello (comic figure), 241

      Pulteney, William, Earl of Bath (1684–1764), 698

      Punch, 241

      Puritans (Independents), 735, 760

      Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich (1799–1837), 427, 464

      Pyrrhonisme de l’histoire, Le (Voltaire), 136

      Pythagoras, 254

      quadrille, 292

      Quadruple Alliance (1718), 278

      Quakers, 684, 733, 834

      Qualtenburg, Franz Kressel von (1720–1801), 355

      Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697–1773), 234

      Quarenghi, Giacomo (1744–1817), 468

      quartet, 528

      Quebec, English conquest of, 58

      Quesnay, François (1694–1774), 72, 78, 769, aid to Mirabeau père, 74

      death of, 77

      devotion of disciples to, 74

      Genovesi and, 251

      influence on Adam Smith, 769

      personality of, 76

      practical program of, 76

      theories of, 73–74, 250

      Qu’est-ce que le Tiers-état? (Sieyès), 915, 954–55

      Quiberon Bay, battle of (1759), 57

      Quinault, Philippe (1635–88), 371

      Rabelais, François (1495–1553), 788

      Rachmaninov (Russian translator of Voltaire), 463

      Racine, Jean-Baptiste (1639–99), 103–4, 136, 169, 427, 511, 528, 588, 661, 889

      Råd, Swedish, 654

      Radcliffe, Ann, nee Ward (1764–1823), 691

      Radishchev, Alexander Nikolaevich (1749–1802), 465-66, 469

      Radziwill, Helen, 479

      Radziwill, Prince Karol (1734–90), 473

      Raeburn, Sir Henry (1756–
    1823), 762, 765

      Raison par alphabet, La (Voltaire), 138

      Rambler, The (Johnson), 786, 822, 825

      Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683–1764), 18, 368, 372, 909

      Ramírez, Juan (fl. 1760), 300

      Ramsay, Allan (1686–1758), poet, 765

      Ramsay, Allan (1713–84), painter, 699, 729, 765

      Ranc, Jean 298

      Rançon, M. (fl. 1757), 86

      Ranelagh, 744

      Ranke, Leopold von (1795–1886), on Pope Innocent III, 245–46

      Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio; 1483–1520), 248, 327, 466, 751

      Raskolniki, religious dissenters, 452

      Rasmus Montanus (Holberg), 650

      Raspe, Rudolph Erich (1737–94), 534, 568

      Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, History of (Johnson), 819, 825–26, 829

      Rastrelli, Bartolomeo (1700–71), 426

      Rastrelli, Carlo Bartolomeo (d. 1744), 426

      Räuber, Die (Schiller), 521, 570–71, 589

      Rauch, Father (fl. 1755), 327

      Rautenstrauch, Franz, 343

      Ravenna, 244

      Ravensburg, 48

      Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas-François (1713–96), 34, 108, 220, 280, 361, 798, 901, 908

      American Revolution and, 867

      clerical attacks on, 902

      death of 893

      later life of, 893

      at Mme. Geoffrin’s salon, 120

      Razumovsky, Alexis (fl. 1742), 431

      Razumovsky, Kirill, 439

      Real Academia Española, 280

      Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de (1683–1757), 501

      Récamier, Jeanne-Françoise, nee Bernard (1777–1849), 118

      Recherches philosophiques sur le droit de propriété (Brissot de Warville), 938

      Recueil d’antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques, romaines, et gauloises (Caylus), 110, 749

      Redemptionists, 225

      Reflections (Pinto), 630

      Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke), 690, 722–23, 806

      Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses (Turgot), 79

      Reform Bill (1832; England), 739

      Reformation, 504, 620

      regaliste faction, 317

      Regulated Company, 732

      Reichstag of Holy Roman Empire, 502

      Reid, Thomas (1710–96), 763, 764–65

      Reimarus, Elise (fl. 1768), 512

      Reimarus, Hermann Samuel (1694–1768), 512–514, 578

      Reims: factories in, 932

      poverty in, 933

      riots in, 934

      statues in, 107

      stores in, 936

      Reinhold, Karl Leonhard (1758–1823), 539, 551, 594

      Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (Kant), 531, 545

      religious toleration: in Austria, 348, 351–52, 357, 641–42

      in Austrian Netherlands, 361

      in Holland, 646–47

      in France, 863, 902

      French Revolution and, 642

      Jews and, see Jews;

      in Poland, 481, 487

      in Prussia, 499, 540

      Rousseau demands, 175–76

      in Russia, 438, 451–52

      in Sweden, 657

      Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Percy), 518, 568, 676, 809

      Remarks upon the Architecture of the Ancients (Winckelmann), 328

      Rembrandt Harmensj von Rijn (1606–69), 466

      Remigius Franyó (fl. 1788), 363

      Renan, Joseph-Ernest (1823–92), 880

      Rennes, 107

      Parlement of, 92–93, 849, 947

      Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841–1919), 235

      Re pastore (Mozart), 389

      Repnin, Nikolai Vasilievich (1734–1801), 480, 481–82

      Reprimand to the Queen, A, 853

      Requiem, Mozart’s, 370, 380, 408

      Rerum italicarum scriptores (Muratori), 244

      Restif de La Bretonne, Nicolas-Edme (1734–1806), 918–19

      descriptions of Paris, 908

      on reading by workers, 914

      Re Teodoro (Paisiello), 334

      Re Turandote (Weber, Busoni, and Puccini), 243*

      Reutter, Georg (1656–1738), 374

      Réveillon factory riot, 956

      Rêveries d’un promeneur solitaire, Les (Rousseau), 23–24, 26, 171, 206, 886, 887

      Rey, Marc-Michel (fl. 1770), 178

      Reynolds, Frances (1729–1807), 745, 751

      Reynolds, Richard (fl. 1763), 671

      Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–92), 238, 645, 699, 720, 728–29, 740, 750, 751 -54, 772, 789, 812, 828, 839

      description of Boswell by, 842

      in “the Club,” 827

      on development of artist, 754

      early life of, 751

      earnings of, 753

      esthetic theories of, 754

      fame of, 753–54, 756

      Gainsborough and, 756–57

      Goldsmith and, 816–17

      illness and death of, 754–55

      Samuel Johnson and, 840–41

      paean to Michelangelo, 754

      paintings of women and children of, 752–53

      president of Royal Academy of Arts, 754

      scope of portraiture of, 751–53

      studies in Italy, 751

      Ricardo, David (1772–1823), 739

      Ricci, Father, 283

      Ricci, Lorenzo (1703–75), 267, 317–18

      arrest and death of, 318

      Ricci, Marco (1676–1729), 235

      Ricci, Scipione de (1741–1810), bishop of Pistoia, 313–14

      Ricci, Sebastiano (1660–1734), 235

      Ricci, Teodora, 243

      Richard III (Shakespeare), 741–42

      Richardson, Jonathan (1665–1745), 751

      Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761), 136, 167, 169, 509, 518, 563, 661, 790, 793, 814, 825, 842, 887

      Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis de, Cardinal (1585–1642), 268, 344

      Richelieu, Louis-François-Armand de Vignerot de Plessis, Maréchal Duc de (1696–1788), 42–43, 53, 87, 89, 133, 879

      Richelieu, Marie-Élizabeth-Sophie de Guise, Duchesse de (d. 1740), 98

      Richmond, Charles Lennox, 3d Duke of (1735–1806), 713

      Richmond, Mary Bruce, Duchess of, 752

      Richter, Jean Paul (1763–1825), 611

      Riddarhus, Swedish, 654

      Riddell, Maria (fl. 1793), 778

      Ridolfo, Palazzo, 228

      Riesener, Jean-Henri (1734–1806), 107, 523, 910–11

      Riga, 423

      Righini, Vincente (1756–1812), 404

      Rights of Man, The (Paine), 340, 725

      Riksdag, Swedish, 654–57, 662, 664

      Rimnik, battle of (1789), 460

      Rimsky-Korsakov, Ivan (fl. 1778), 444, 446

      Rinaldi, Antonio (1709–90), 468

      Rinaldo di Capua (c.1710–c.1780), 254

      riots: in England, 735–36

      in France, 98, 934, 946, 956, 961

      Risorgimento and Alfieri, 340

      Rivals, The (Sheridan), 695

      Riza Kuli (fl. 1740), son of Nadir, 419–20

      Robbers, The (Schiller), see Räuber, Die

      Robert, Hubert (1733–1808), 111, 117, 120, 248

      Robertson, William (1721–93), 594, 762–64, 766, 767, 733, 800, 835

      Robespierre, Maximilien de (1758–94), 915

      in Club Breton, 939

      rejects philosophes, 880, 890

      Rousseau’s influence on, 890

      in States General, 957

      Robinson, Mary (Perdita), nee Darby (1758–1800), 740

      Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 182

      Robison, Sir James (fl. 1758), 674

      Rochambeau, J.-B.-Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de (1725–1807), 871, 872

      Rochelle, La, 944

      Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of (1730–82), 691, 700, 789

      ministries of, 700, 703, 710, 714, 761

      Rodney, George Brydges, Admiral (1719–92), 669

      Rodríguez, Ventura (1754), 297


      Roebuck, John (1718–94), 675

      Roentgen, David (1743–1807), 523, 911

      Roguin, Daniel (fl. 1760), 190, 882

      Rohan, Cardinal Prince Louis-René-Édouard de (1734–1803), 322, 942–43

      Rohikhand war, 717, 719

      Roland, Jeanne-Manon, nee Phlipon (1754–93), 937

      Roland (Gluck), 371

      Roland (Piccini), 371

      Roland (Quinault), 371

      Rolf Krage (Ewald), 651

      Rollin, Charles (1661–1741), 179

      Roman Elegies (Goethe), 598

      Romania, see Wallachia

      Romanina, La, see Bulgaretti, Marianna

      Romans, Mlle, de (fl. 1761), 68

      romantic love, 888

      Romantic movement, 768

      Alfieri and, 340

      definition of, 887

      in England, 809, 813

      in France, 3, 128, 157, 887

      in Germany, 508, 517–20

      Goethe on, 588

      influence of Middle Ages on, 809

      Kant and, 531, 551

      letters of Julie de Lespinasse and, 128

      in music, 399

      Rousseau and, 3, 157, 887

      spread of, 170, 888–89

      Rome, ancient, 21, 690

      influence of, 118, 315

      philosophes and, 898

      Rome, modern, 244–49, 256 , 310

      architecture in, 247

      cosmopolitanism of, 314–15

      cultural stagnation of, 247

      Freemasons in, 220

      Goethe in, 587–88

      Jews in, 631, 642

      population of, 245

      prison reforms in, 245

      prostitution in, 218

      ratio of priests to lay population, 224

      theaters in, 220

      university in, 219

      Winckelmann in, 327–28

      Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 740

      Romero, bullfighter, 291

      Romische Elegien (Goethe), 590

      Romney, George (1734–1802), 740, 757–58

      Rosciad, The (Churchill), 808

      Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of (1847–1929), 772

      Rosicrucians, 324, 465

      Rossbach, battle of (1757), 50, 67

      Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (1792–1868), 245, 920

      Barber of Seville libretto and, 334

      on Mozart’s Don Giovani, 404

      Rothschild, Meyer Amschel (1743–1812), 634

      Rotrou, Jean de (1609–50), 109

      rotten boroughs, 685

      Rotterdam, 361

      Rouelle, Guillaume-François (1695–1762), 813

      Rouen: bread riots in, 934

      unemployment in, 935

      Parlement in, 849, 947

      Rousseau, Mme. (foster mother of d’Alembert), 126

      Rousseau, Isaac (father of Jean-Jacques), 5

      Rousseau, Jacques (1733–1801), 910

      Rousseau, Jeanette (fl. 1748), 918

      Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78), 3–37, 99, 104, 113, 128, 136, 152–70, 280, 286, 336–37, 353, 465, 478, 485, 496, 532, 545, 559, 563, 636, 641, 643, 656, 661, 690, 725, 790, 808, 845, 852, 857, 881–92, 895, 910, 916, 919, 952, 964

     


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