Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution From the Rights of Man to Robespierre (190 page)

Nancy (Lorraine; department of Meurtheet-Moselle),
183
,
425

Nantes (Loire-Atlantique department),
11
,
201
,
399
,
451
,
456
,
671
; and clergy,
191
,
201
; and Club Mirabeau,
220
,
283
; and merchants,
220
; and
noyades
,
529
; and Terror,
525
,
528
–
29

Naples, kingdom of,
238
,
288
,
342
,
650
–
54
; and bishops and archbishops,
650
; and nobility,
650
–
52
; and peasantry,
650
–
51
,
653
.
See also
Italian revolutionary republics

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821),
12
–
13
,
123
,
203
,
395
,
528
,
624
,
627
,
642
,
644
,
646
–
47
,
650
,
655
,
659
–
64
,
686
,
694
,
696
,
702
; blacklisted after Thermidor,
581
; in Corsica,
331
,
666
; and Islam,
662
–
66
; and Life Consulate,
12
; and republicanism (1792–99),
643
–
47
,
649
,
662
–
64
,
666
; restores slavery in the French Caribbean (1802),
414

National Assembly (1789–91),
10
–
11
,
15
,
25
,
55
–
61
,
73
–
76
,
84
–
87
,
105
–
7
,
110
–
12
,
148
,
155
,
157
,
163
,
169
,
177
,
193
,
204
–
5
,
396
–
99
; allegedly dominated by Protestants and unbelievers,
182
,
186
,
202
; and clergy,
188
–
89
,
191
,
194
–
95
; and Comité de Pensions,
118
; and Comité des colonies,
403
; and Comité ecclésiastique,
186
–
87
,
189
–
90
,
194
,
202
; main factions of,
95
–
96
,
107
–
8
,
136
–
37
,
175
–
76
,
191
,
207
–
8
; and ultraroyalist rump,
208
,
215

National Convention (Sept. 1792–1795): deadlocked (spring 1793),
281
,
290
,
298
–
99
,
310
–
15
,
358
–
59
,
369
,
425
–
27
,
440
–
42
,
464
–
65
; elections for (Aug. and Sept. 1792),
264
,
273
–
76
,
316
; purged and silenced (from June 1793),
503
,
511
,
513
,
537
,
572
–
73
,
587
; and Montagnard faction,
276
,
282
,
308
,
315
,
429
,
505
; proclaims the end of monarchy,
276
–
77
; stifled from 2 June 1793,
452
–
56
,
594

National Guard,
60
,
63
,
67
,
91
,
93
,
130
–
31
,
150
,
165
,
195
–
96
,
204
–
5
,
238
,
463
; bias of, in favour of liberal monarchy (1789–92),
153
,
174
,
204
–
5
,
207
; complicity of, in “September massacres,”
273
; democratized (July 1792),
238
,
251
–
52
,
313
; under Hanriot (1793–94),
578
–
79
,
584
; after Thermidor,
605
–
6
,
608
,
627
–
29

national holidays. See
fêtes nationales

natural right theories (Rousseauist),
77
–
78
,
364
,
366
,
410

Necker, Jacques (1732–1804), Swiss banker and royal minister,
14
,
59
,
104
,
151
,
251
,
329
–
30
,
631
,
698
;
De l’importance des opinions religieuses
(1788),
14
–
15

Neerwinden (battle, 18 March 1793),
338
–
39
,
420

Nelson, Horatio (1758–1805), British admiral,
653
–
54
,
665

Nero, Néronisme,
509
,
588
–
89
,
591
,
705

“new rich” fail to capture the Revolution,
220
–
21
,
226
,
228
–
29

newspapers,
42
–
46
,
59
,
160
; circulation figures of,
11
,
15
,
32
; and Feuillant press,
207
,
225
; and popular press (
presse populaire
),
89
,
94
–
95
,
160
,
163
–
65
,
169
,
295
–
96
,
299
–
301
; and provincial Jacobin club subscriptions,
429
; royalist,
46
,
129
,
147
,
154
–
55
,
166
,
305
,
429
,
674
,
685
–
86
; as target of Montagnard repression,
423
,
429

Nice, French annexation of,
317
,
331
,
642
–
43

Nîmes,
114
–
16
,
435
,
441
,
607
; and National Guard,
114
–
15
; and Protestants,
114
–
15
; and société populaire,
435

nobility of France,
31
,
34
,
104
–
5
,
109
,
113
–
14
,
116
–
17
,
141
,
180
–
81
,
222
,
228
,
261
; army commanders and,
118
–
19
,
180
,
228
,
241
,
254
,
277
; categories of,
8
–
9
,
546
; dominate pre-1791 episcopate,
180
,
184
–
86
,
190
,
197
,
199
,
202
; emigration of (
see
émigrés
); as exploiters,
25
,
116
–
17
,
230
,
234
; oppose the Revolution,
253
–
54
,
261
; social dominance of, backed by Church,
181
,
234
; and use of titles,
104
–
5
; as victims of the Terror,
271
,
546
,
558