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    Rousseau and Revolution

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      Theresianische Halsgerichts-ordnung, 344

      Thetis och Pelée (Gustavus III and Willander), 659

      Thicknesse, Philip (1720?–92), 755

      Thierry, Dr. (fl. 1765), 200

      Third Estate: cahiers of, 950

      composition of, 956

      declares itself National Assembly, 958

      growth of, 948

      leads Day of Tiles (1787), 947–48

      representation in States-General, 949

      Sieyès’ pamphlet on, 954–55

      size in population, 955

      in States-General, 956–61

      tennis court oath of (1789), 958–59

      Third Partition Treaty (1797), 492

      Thirty Years’ War, 38, 342

      Thomas, Ambroise (1811–96), 600

      Thomas, Antoine-Léonard (1732–85), 908

      Thomas a Kempis (1380–1471), 886

      Thomasius, Christian (1655–1728), 528

      Thomson, James (1700–48), 104, 169, 379, 518, 661, 732, 887

      Thoreau, Henry David (1817–62), 206, 551

      Thorild, Thomas (1759–1808), 661

      Thorn, 484

      confederacy at, 480

      Thorwaldsen, Albert Bertel (1770–1844), 331

      Thrale, Henry (1728–81), 837

      Thrale (later Piozzi), Hester, nee Lynch (1741–1821), 791, 841

      issues Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., during the Last Twenty Years of His Life, 828, 840

      Johnson and, 828, 837–38

      Thun, Count von (fl. 1783), 403

      Thun, Countess von (fl. 1756), 374

      Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731–1806), 736

      Ticonderoga, battle of (1775), 58

      Tieffen, Franz (fl. 1703), 226

      Tiepolo, Domenico (1727–1804), 239, 258, 331–32

      Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696–1770), 235–36, 237–39, 258, 298–99, 300

      Tierney, George (1761–1830), 732

      Tiflis, 419

      Tillot, Guillaume, du, see Du Tillot, Guillaume

      Times, The, 786

      Tindal, Matthew (1657–1733), 507

      Tingry, Prince de, 161

      Tipu Sahib (1751–99), 717

      Tiral, 341

      Tirso de Molina (1571–1648), 404

      Tischbein, Johann Friedrich August (1750–1812), 523

      Tischbein, Johann Heinrich (1722–89), 523

      Tischbein, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (1751–1829), 523, 587, 588

      tithes: in France, 931

      in Spain, 274

      “To a Louse on Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church” (Burns), 775

      “To All French Who Still Love Justice and Truth” (Rousseau), 886

      “To My Mind” (Kantemir), 427

      “To the Liberty and Independence of the United States” (Nascimento), 269

      “To Mary in Heaven” (Burns), 775

      tobacco, 729

      Tocqueville, Alexis Clérel de (1805–59), 897

      on French justice, 849

      on popular hatred of Church, 902

      on pre-revolutionary skepticism, 898

      Toland, John (1670–1722), 507

      Toledo, Archbishop of, 285, 298

      Toleration Act of 1689, 760

      Toleration of Deists, … by an Anonymous Writer (Reimarus), 513

      toll roads in England, 672

      tolls in France, 935, 944

      Tolstoi, Count Lev Nikolaevich (1823–1910), 3, 891

      Tom Jones (Fielding), 835

      Tom Jones (opera by Philidor), 100

      Tomé, Narciso (fl. 1721), 298

      tonado and tonadillo, 292

      Tooke, John Home (1736–1812), 704

      Topal Osman (Turkish general), 419

      Torgau, battle of (1760), 60

      Tories, 692, 711

      Stuart dynasty and, 699

      support for George III, 699

      Whigs compared with, 685

      Torquato Tasso (Goethe), 584–85, 587, 588, 601

      Torrigiani, Cardinal, papal secretary, 284

      Torstenson, Lennart (1603–51), 659

      torture: abolished in Austria, 352

      abolished in France, 867

      abolished in Russia, 146, 321, 431, 451–52

      Voltaire’s opposition to, 146

      Torún (Thorn), 474

      Toscanini, Arturo (1867–1957), 234

      Toulouse, Parlement of, 92

      Tourney, Voltaire’s workshops at, 135

      Townsend, Joseph (1740–1815), 274

      Townshend, Charles (1725–67), 710

      Townshend Acts (1767), 710–12

      Traëtta, Tommaso (1727–79), 223, 335, 368

      tragedy, middle class development of, 104

      Traitédes qualités d’un grand roi (Morelly), 81

      Transcendentalist movement, 551

      transportation, 672

      Trapassi, Pietro, see Mestastasio, Pietro Tratado de la regalia de l’amortización (Campomanes), 282–83

      Trattato dei delitti e delle pene (Beccaria), 145, 320

      Trattato della moneta (Galiani), 251

      Trauttmansdorff (friend of Tamburini), 316

      Traveller, or A Prospect of Society, The (Goldsmith), 815

      Travels in France (Young), 928*

      Treatise on Civil Architecture (Chambers), 747

      Treatise on Crimes and Penalties (Beccaria), 320

      Treatise on Human Nature (Hume), 756, 769

      Treatise on the Capability of the Feeling for Beauty (Winckelmann), 328

      Treatise on Toleration (Voltaire), 357

      Treatise on Toleration (Voltaire), 357

      Trembecki, Stanislas (1737?–1812), 486

      Trentes, Les, 957

      Trento, 229

      Trescho, Sebastian, 567

      Trevi, Fontana di, 247

      Treviso, 229, 239

      Trier, 341, 503

      Trier, Archbishop-Elector of (fl. 1788), 504–5

      Trieste, 641

      Trinity College (in Ireland), 759

      Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 787–89

      Troisième Entretien sur Le Fils naturel (Diderot), 101

      Tronchin, François (author and painter), 212, 213

      Tronchin, Jean-Robert (1710–93), 197

      Tronchin, Dr. Théodore (1709–81), 103, 159–60, 875–76; 878

      on last hours of Voltaire, 879

      Troost, Cornells (1697–1750), 647

      Trudaine de Montigny, Jean-Charles-Philibert (1733–77), 73

      Truffaldino (comic figure), 241

      Tsarskoe Selo, Palace of, 426, 468

      Tschoudi, Baron Jean-Baptiste de (b. 1734), 372

      Tubières, Anne-Claude de, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765), 110, 120, 218, 467, 749

      Tucker, Josiah (1712–99), 676

      Tugenbund, 641

      Tuileries Gardens, 107, 962

      Tunisia, 411

      Türckheim, Bernhard Friedrich von (d. 1831), 566

      Turenne, Henri de La Tour d’ Auvergne, Maréchal Vicomte de (1611–75), 109

      Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de l’Aulne (1727–81), 72–73, 98, 125, 143*, 214, 769, 858–65, 869, 929

      advocates religious toleration, 863

      agricultural reforms of, 859

      appearance of, 858

      Assembly of Notables and, 944

      attack on feudalism, 861–63

      attempts to save monarchy, 898

      bread crisis in Paris and, 860

      conflicts with Paris Parlement, 861–63

      conflicts with privileged classes, 858, 863–64

      as controller general of finance, 858

      early life of, 77–79

      early official career of, 79

      economic reforms of, 859–60

      fall of, 75

      financial reforms of, 859–61

      French Revolution and, 940

      influence of physiocrats on, 858

      later years and death of, 865

      in Lespinasse salon, 126

      Louis XVl and, 859–60, 863–65

     
    love for the people, 856

      Marie Antoinette and, 863–65

      ministry of, 858–65

      philosophes and, 78–79, 858–59, 863, 865

      reforms of, 80, 144, 863

      resignation from ministry (1776), 864–65

      Swedish economic reform and, 657

      theories of, 77–78

      tries to help Protestants, 902

      Voltaire and, 874, 875

      Turin, 256

      churches in, 224

      Enlightenment in, 310

      history and achievements of, 226

      industry in, 218

      ratio of priests to lay population in, 224

      theaters in, 220

      universities in, 219

      Turkey, 356

      architecture in, 414

      art in, 414

      Austria’s conflicts with, 61, 363, 365, 411, 414–15, 430

      cleanliness and sanitation in, 413

      commerce, 456

      culture in, 412

      Hungary invaded by, 62

      Jews in, 632

      papacy and, 457

      Peace of Jassy (1792), 488

      Persia and, 417–19

      poetry in, 412–13

      Poland and, 415, 458, 475, 482

      Protestant aid to, 363

      repulsed from Vienna (1683), 411

      reign of Abdul-Hamid I, 415

      reign of Mahmud I, 415

      Russia’s conflicts with, 140, 414–15, 430, 457–61, 470, 483, 663

      slavery in, 413

      Spain and, 288

      Sultanate in, 414

      Sweden and, 460

      Venice’s conflict with, 414

      women in, 413

      EMPIRE OF: Conquest of Crete and Greece (1715), 414

      decline, 414–15

      European, 414–15

      North African, 415–17

      size, 411

      turnpikes in England, 672

      Tuscany, 228, 278–79, 312

      Austria and, 217, 228

      church lands in, 224

      early history of, 313

      Inquisition abolished in, 316

      Napoleon I in, 314

      reforms of Grand Duke Leopold, 313–14

      triumph of reaction in, 314

      Tuscany, Grand Duke of (r. 1765–90), see Leopold II, Emperor

      Tuyll, Isabella van, see Charrière, Isabelle de

      Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden in Deutschland (Dohn), 642

      Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung (Schiller), 599

      Über die neuere deutsche Literatur (Herder), 567

      Udine, 229

      Uffizi Gallery, 228

      Uhlfeld, Count von (fl. 1742), 40

      Ukraine, 460

      Ulrika Eleanora, Queen of Sweden (r. 1719–20), 654

      Ulster, 760

      Uman, massacres in, 634

      Umberto I Biancamano (970?-1050?), Count of Savoy, 226

      Una delle ultime sere di Carnevale (Goldoni), 244

      Unger, Georg Christian (1743–1812), 524

      Uniates, 475; see also Greek Orthodox Church, in Poland

      Unigenitus (Pope Benedict XIV), 246

      Union of 1707 (Scotland and England), 762

      Unitarianism, Rousseau’s belief in, 163

      United Company of Merchants of England

      trading to the East Indies, see British East India Company

      United Provinces, see Holland

      United States, 487

      French recognition of, 713

      Jews in, 642

      literature in, 889

      physiocratic influence in, 77

      treaty of alliance with France (1778), 870

      United States Constitution, Bill of Rights of, 872

      United States of Belgium, 364

      Universal Chronicle, The, 825

      Universal Church History (Holberg), 650

      Universal Etymological English Dictionary, An (Bailey), 820–21

      universities, 218–19, 276, 294, 301, 358, 360, 362, 453, 505–6, 532, 647, 659, 674, 763, 769

      Unwin, Mary (1724–96), 811–13

      Unwin, Rev. Morley (d. 1767), 811

      Unwin, Susannah, 811

      Unwin, William, 811

      Upsala, University of, 659

      “Urbarian Law” (1774), 350

      Urfaust (Goethe), 608

      Ursins, Marie-Anne de La Trémoille, Princesse des (1642?–1722), 276

      Ussé, Mlle, d’, 894

      Utilitarianism, 738–39

      Utrecht, 361, 647

      Utrecht, Treaty of (1713), 57, 226, 277, 547

      Uzbekistan, Persian invasion of (1740), 420

      Uzbeks, 417, 418, 420

      Vais (d. 1715), Mir of Kandahar, 418

      Valdés, Juan Meléndez, see Meléndez Valdés, Juan

      Valencia, 273

      growth of, 289

      Valencia, University of, 294

      Valentinois, Comtesse de (fl. 1758), 161

      Valhynia, anti-Semitic massacres in, 634

      Valle, Filippo della (1696–1768), 247

      Valley Forge, Americans at, 869

      Vallin de La Mothe, Jean-Baptiste (1729–1800), 468

      Valmarana, Villa, 239

      Valmy, battle of (1792), 580, 591

      Vandyck, Sir Anthony (1599–1641), 466

      Vanity of Human Wishes, The (Johnson), 821

      Vanloo, Carle (1705–65), 115, 120

      Vanloo, Louis-Michel (1707–71), 298

      Vanvitelli (Italian painter), 298

      Vanvitelli, Luigi (1700–73), 250

      Väräla, Treaty of (1790), 664

      Varicourt, Mlle., see Villette, Marquise de

      Vasco da Gama, see Gama, Vasco da

      Vassilchik, Alexis (fl. 1772), 445

      Vathek (Beckford), 809

      Vatican School of Painting, 248

      Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de (1633–1707), 72

      Vaud, revolts in, 645

      Vaudreuil, Louis-Philippe de Rigaud, Comte de (1724–1802), 853

      Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Pierre-François de Rigaud, Marquis de (1698–1765), 58

      Vaughn, C. E., 5*

      Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de (1715–47), 150, 915

      Vauxhall, 744

      “Veilchen, Das” (Goethe), 400

      Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y (1599–1660), 301, 305

      Vendôme, Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, Duc de (1654–1712), 277

      Venezianishche Epigramme (Goethe), 590

      Venice, 217, 229, 239, 310, 641

      Casanova in, 323, 325

      clothing in, 231

      daily life and entertainment in, 230–32

      decay of (1760–89), 310–11

      economy of, 229–30

      French occupation of (1797), 311

      gain by Treaty of Passerowitz (1718), 415

      Goethe in, 590

      government of, 229

      instrumental music in, 254

      Jesuit colleges in, 219

      Jews in, 631, 642

      libraries in, 219

      literature of, 239–44

      music in, 220, 232–33

      painting in, 331–32

      population of, 229

      prostitution in, 230

      religion in, 230

      Scarlatti in, 256

      size of, 229

      theaters in, 220, 241

      war with Turkey (1715), 414

      wealth of clergy in, 224

      Venice Preserved (Otway), 741

      Ventimiglio, Monsignor, bishop of Catania (fl. 1760), 316

      Veracini, Francesco Maria (c. 1685?–1750), 228

      Verdelin, Mme. de (fl. 1765), 209

      Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901), 335

      Verevkin (translator), 463–64

      Vergara, Francisco, the Younger (1713–61), 298

      Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de (1717–87), 656, 858, 864, 922

      American Revolution and, 867–68, 870, 871

      Franklin and, 869

      predicts American Revolution, 708

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    nbsp; Vermenoux, Marquise de, 865

      Vermond, Abbé Matthieu-Jacques de (d. after 1789), 846

      Vernes, Jacob or Jacques (1728–91), Swiss pastor, 190, 200

      Vernet, Claude-Joseph (1714–89), French painter, 111, 120, 466

      Vernet, Isaac (fl. 1750), Swiss banker, 865

      Vernet, Mme., wife of Claude-Joseph, 895, 897

      Verney, Ralph, 2d Earl Verney (fl. 1765), 692, 719

      Verona, 228–29, 245

      Verona illustrata (Maffei), 229

      Veronese, Paolo (1528–88), 238, 239

      Verri, Pietro (fl. 1770), 312, 320

      Verrières, Geneviève Rinteau de (b. 1731), 35

      Verrières, Marie Rinteau de (1728–75), 35

      Versailles: court in, 849–50

      palaces at, 85, 250

      riots in, 934

      women’s march to, 919, 934

      Versailles, Peace of (1783), 290

      Versailles, Treaty of: first (1756), 42

      second (1757), 45

      Verschwörung des Fiesko zu Genua, Die (Schiller), 571–72

      “Versuch, aus der vergleichenden Knochenlehre . . .” (Goethe), 617

      Vesey, Elizabeth (1715?-91), 750, 789

      Vespro, 11 (Parini), 335

      Vessan, Marie de, 951

      Vestris, Gaétan (1729–1808), 370

      Vestris or Vestrice, Marie-Rose, nee Gourgaud-Dugason (1746–1804), 877

      Vesuvius, Goethe climbs, 588–89

      Vicar of Wakefield, The (Goldsmith), 814–15

      Vicenza, 229

      Goethe in, 587

      industry in, 218

      theaters in, 220

      Vichy, Diane de, nee d’Albon (b. 1716), 122

      Vichy, Gaspard de, 122, 131

      Vico, Gennaro, Charles IV’s aid to, 254

      Vico, Giambattista (1668–1744), 251–54

      early life of, 251

      failure to gain attention, 253–54

      philosophy of history, 251–53

      rediscovery of, 254

      secularism of, his analysis, 253

      Vicq-d’Azyr, Félix (1748–94), 617

      Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy (r. 1675–1732), King of Sardinia as Victor Amadeus I (r. 1720–30), 226

      Vie de mon père, La (Restif de La Bretonne), 918

      Vie de Voltaire (Condorcet), 894

      Vieira, Francisco (1699–1783), 261

      Vielleville, M. de (fl. 1778), 876

      Vien, Joseph-Marie (1716–1809), 912

      Vienna, 245, 256

      beauty of, 345

      as capital city, 341

      dancing in, 345

      industries in, 344

      Jews in, 631–32

      music in, 345, 367–72

      Napoleon’s bombardment of (1809), 380

      newspapers in, 346

      theaters in, 346

      Turks repulsed from (1683), 411

      Vienna, University of, 343, 352, 360

      Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Anne Élisabeth (1755–1842), 99, 111, 372, 467, 644, 851, 888, 913–14

      on acclamation of Voltaire, 878

      celebrates children and motherhood, 904

      on religious piety, 901

      Vigny, Alfred de (1797–1863), 889

     


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