Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution From the Rights of Man to Robespierre (194 page)

primogeniture abolished,
280

privilege,
73
–
74
,
104
,
141
,
231
,
242
; ecclesiastical,
74
–
75
,
180
–
81
,
184
; noble,
31
,
73
,
117

professsionals, as social category,
9

Proly, Pierre-Joseph (1752–94), Belgian editor of
Le Cosmopolite
,
21
,
318
,
320
,
340
,
421
,
500
,
539
,
551
,
659
,
727

prostitutes, prostitution,
271
,
476
,
508
–
9
,
527
–
8
,
544
,
602

Protestants, Protestantism,
11
,
112
,
124
,
182
,
188
,
193
,
222
; and equality of rights,
182
–
83
,
190

Provence: de-Christianization,
486
,
501
; and ecclesiastical oath-taking,
196
; and peasant disturbances,
33
–
34
; Provencal language,
383
; and provincial privileges,
97
,
148

provinces, abolition of,
97
–
98

Prudhomme, Louis-Marie (1752–1830), revolutionary journalist,
26
–
27
,
36
,
64
,
275
,
293
,
312
,
437
,
460
; and “September massacres,”
273
;
Revolutions de Paris
,
26
–
27
,
43
,
68
,
77
–
78
,
225
,
397
,
406
,
557

Prussia, kingdom of,
30
,
227
,
237
–
39
,
245
,
276
,
323
,
327
,
333
,
336
,
341
,
422
,
635
–
36

public assistance (
secours publics
),
349
–
50
,
357
–
58
,
368
–
69

Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine-Chrysostome (1755–1849), critic and académicien,
70

La Queue de Robespierre
(Robespierre’s tail) (pamphlet of August 1794),
587

Quiberon Bay, Brittany, landing (June 1795),
614

La Quotidienne
(royalist paper, 1792–93),
460
,
557

Rabaut Saint-Étienne, Jean-Paul (1743–93), Protestant revolutionary leader,
34
,
45
,
49
–
50
,
54
,
73
,
77
,
79
,
84
,
87
,
98
,
116
,
212
,
269
,
447
,
513
,
536
,
727

Racine and Corneille,
211
–
12
,
519

Radical Enlightenment (“parti de philosophie”), as revolutionary engine: advocates comprehensive
tolérantisme
,
127
,
182
–
83
,
192
,
321
,
335
,
355
–
56
,
589
,
616
,
686
,
688
; aimed against kings, priests, and aristocrats,
232
,
240
,
242
–
43
,
253
,
289
,
321
–
23
,
457
,
686
,
703
–
5
; aims for the “happiness” of the majority,
279
,
355
–
56
,
368
,
385
,
457
,
553
,
625
–
26
,
688
,
698
–
99
,
706
; and anti-populism (
principes anti-populaires
),
73
,
286
,
300
–
301
,
303
,
332
,
354
–
55
,
358
–
61
,
593
–
94
,
616
,
686
,
701
; balances direct and representative democracy,
66
,
348
,
357
–
58
,
365
; and black emancipation,
396
–
406
,
478
,
623
,
704
,
707
; and capitalists, capitalism,
156
,
355
,
368
; considers all previous law and institutions corrupt and invalid,
330
,
704
–
6
; defined by contemporaries,
18
–
20
,
72
,
124
,
159
,
289
,
321
–
23
,
400
–
402
,
589
,
686
,
701
–
5
; and divine governance of the world rejected,
703
–
5
; and education a universal right (and necessity),
365
,
368
,
374
–
95
,
457
,
682
,
696
,
698
,
704
–
6
; and “fanatisme aristo-théocratique” condemned,
325
,
621
,
678
–
79
,
683
,
688
,
704
–
5
; and general emancipation based on Human Rights,
139
,
232
,
301
,
322
–
23
,
327
,
330
,
345
–
54
,
365
,
369
,
379
–
80
,
396
–
97
,
400
,
402
–
3
,
405
,
478
,
589
,
630
; and “General Revolution,”
231
–
32
,
238
–
42
,
704
,
707
; and Human Rights grounded in “philosophy,”
381
,
384
,
400
,
410
,
616
–
17
,
621
; and history teaching revolutionized,
382
,
384
,
391
,
620
,
687
; and Idéologues,
622
–
25
,
657
,
672
–
73
,
689
,
696
,
698
–
99
; and inequality, society’s duty to counteract,
182
–
83
,
328
,
347
,
365
,
379
–
80
,
396
–
97
,
399
–
400
,
402
–
3
,
406
–
8
,
625
–
26
,
672
–
73
; and miracles and Revelation eliminated,
192
,
657
,
704
–
5
; and moderate Enlightenment opposed (
see
moderate Enlightenment
); and monasticism condemned,
186
–
87
; and morality not based on religion,
192
–
93
,
289
,
377
,
383
,
389
,
621
,
624
,
657
,
683
,
703
–
4
,
706
–
8
; and noble dominance and monarchism feed on people’s ignorance,
207
,
221
,
224
,
227
,
234
,
289
,
363
,
378
–
81
,
678
–
79
,
699
,
701
,
704
–
5
; and “perpetual and universal peace,”
224
,
293
,
321
,
365
,
623
; and philosophes heroicized,
347
,
351
–
52
,
354
–
55
,
362
,
377
,
381
,
621
,
625
; and “philosophy” not responsible for the 1793–94 persecution of Christians,
487
,
491
,
501
,
688
–
89
; and progress is moral and political as well as scientific,
621
,
625
; and public support for science, scholarship, and the arts,
119
,
365
,
617
,
620
–
23
,
625
,
656
,
659
,
662
; rejects the “British model,”
2
,
95
–
96
,
322
,
682
; rejects Montagnard conception of equality,
625
–
26
,
677
,
689
; and religious authority eliminated,
191
–
93
,
201
,
322
–
23
,
328
,
657
,
682
–
83
,
704
–
5
; and Robespierrisme rooted in ignorance, populism, and illiteracy,
683
,
698
,
704
–
5
; Rousseau’s limited role in,
20
–
22
,
68
,
71
,
376
,
379
,
705
–
7
; and sexual liberation (
see
sexual emancipation
); and social misery and poverty due to bad government and institutions,
18
–
19
,
656
–
58
,
663
,
665
,
667
,
704
–
5
; and sovereignty of the people,
328
,
611
; and “superstition” political as well as religious,