References to materials in the notes include both the page number and note number and are italicized.
academies: provincial, ref1, ref2n24; Bordeaux, ref1; Dijon, ref1; Lyon, ref1, ref2n21, ref3n23; Montpellier, ref1; Rouen, ref1, ref2n21
Academy of Sciences, Parisian, ref1, ref2; and Marat, ref1
academy of sciences, Spanish, ref1, ref2
Altar of the Nation, ref1
American Revolution, ref1, ref2, ref3
anarchy, anarchism, ref1, ref2, ref3
Aranda, Pedro Pablo, conde de, ref1
aristocratic rebellion, ref1
Artois, Charles Philippe, comte d’, ref1, ref2
Aubespine, marquis de l’, ref1
Aubespine, marquise de l’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Audouin, Pierre Jean, ref1, ref2, ref3n58
Austria, Austrians, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Austrian Netherlands, ref1
Bailly, Jean Sylvain, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Barbaroux, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n25
Barère, Bertrand, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bastille Day, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5. See also insurrections, 14 July 1789
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron, ref1
Blanqui, Louis Auguste, ref1
Bolshevik party, ref1
Bonaparte, Napoleon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Napoleonic Empire, ref1
Bonneville, Nicolas, ref1, ref2
Bonomi, Joseph, ref1
Bordeaux, University of, ref1
Boudry, Switzerland, ref1
Bougeart, Alfred, ref1, ref2, ref3n4
Bouillé, François Claude Amour, marquis de, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bourbon Restoration, ref1, ref2, ref3
Boze, Joseph, ref1
Bréguet, Abraham Louis, ref1
Brissot de Warville, Jacques Pierre, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16n13
Brissotins, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8. See also Girondins
Brunswick, duke of, ref1, ref2
Brunswick Manifesto, ref1, ref2
Buchan, Dr. William, ref1, ref2n3
Buonarroti, Philippe Michel, ref1
Burr, Charles W., ref1, ref2n11
Cabrol, Louise, ref1
Caen, ref1
cahiers de doléances, ref1
Calonne, Charles Alexandre, ref1
Capet, Louis. See Louis XVI
capital punishment, ref1, ref2. See also Louis XVI, trial and execution
capitalism, capitalists, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Caritat. See Condorcet
Carlyle, Thomas, ref1
Carmes-Déchaussés district, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chabot, François, ref1n71
Champ de Mars Massacre, ref1, ref2
Charles X. See Artois
Châtelet, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Choiseul, Étienne François, duc de, ref1
city council, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
City Hall (Hôtel de Ville), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Clavière, Bertrand, ref1
Coalition, Coalition Army, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cobban, Alfred, ref1n2
Cold War, ref1
Collignon, Charles, ref1, ref2n14
Commission of Twelve, ref1
Committee of Public Safety, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Committee of Surveillance, Commune, ref1, ref2
Committee of Surveillance, Convention, ref1
Commune. See Paris Commune
communism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n29
Conciergerie, ref1
Condorcet, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, ref1, ref2, ref3
Constituent Assembly. See National Assembly
constitution, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
constitutional monarchy, ref1, ref2
contrafactual history, ref1
Convention, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14n71; Marat’s participation in, ref1, ref2, ref3
Coquard, Olivier, ref1
Cordeliers Club, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Cordeliers district, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Council of Ministers, ref1
Cousin, Jacques Antoine Joseph, ref1
Couthon, Georges, ref1
D’Alembert, Jean Le Rond, ref1
Danton, Georges Jacques, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20
Darnton, Robert, ref1
David, Jacques Louis, ref1, ref2n1
d’Azyr, Vicq, ref1
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, ref1, ref2
Declaration of Pillnitz. See Pillnitz, Declaration of
Desmoulins, Camille, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12n86
Diderot, Denis, ref1
Dillon, Théobald, ref1
district committees, ref1, ref2, ref3
Dover (Douvres), ref1
Dublin, ref1
Dugazon (actor), ref1
Dumoulin, Nicolas, ref1
Dumouriez, Charles François, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Economic Society of Berne, ref1
Edinburgh, ref1
égalité, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
electoral system, two-stage, ref1
electrotherapy, ref1
Engels, Frederick, ref1
England, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Enlightenment, the, ref1
Enragés, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
equality, inequality. See égalité
Estates General, ref1, ref2, ref3
Évrard, Catherine, ref1
Évrard, Étiennette, ref1
Évrard, Simonne, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
federalists, ref1. See also Girondins
fédérés, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Feldenfeld, baron de, ref1
feminism, ref1
Festival of Federation (Fête de la Féderation), ref1
feudalism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Floridablanca, Don José Moñino y Redondo, ref1
Fouaisse, Mlle. (housekeeper), ref1
Foucault, Michel, ref1
Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine, ref1
Fourcroy, Antoine, ref1
Franklin, Benjamin, ref1, ref2, ref3n26
French Enlightenment. See Enlightenment, the
fraternal societies, ref1, ref2, ref3
Frederick the Great (Frederick II, Prussia), ref1
freemasonry. See Masonic lodge
Fréron, Louis Stanislaus, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Garin, Étienne François, ref1
Gazette de Santé, ref1
generation gap, ref1
Geneva, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
George III (England), ref1
Gillispie, Charles C., ref1
Girondins, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8. See also Brissotins
gleets, ref1
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, ref1
Gorsas, Antoine Joseph, ref1, ref2
Guadet, Marguerite Élie, ref1, ref2, ref3
Hébert, Jacques René, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10. See also Père Duchesne
Hébertistes, ref1, ref2, ref3n6
Héron, François, ref1
Hilbey, Constant, ref1
Hôtel de Ville. See City Hall
Hugo, Victor, ref1
Huguenots, ref1
insurrection, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10; of July 14, 1789, ref1, ref2, ref3; of October 5, 1789, ref1; of September 2, 1790, ref1; of June 20, 1992, ref1; of August 10, 1792, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; of May 31–June 2, 1793, ref1, ref2, ref3; of September 5, 1793, ref1
Isnard, Maximin, ref1
Jacobins, Jacobin Club, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12; and Marat, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10. See also sans-culottes, coalition with Jacobins
Jacobin Convention, ref1
Jacobin Republic, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Jacobin science, ref1, ref2n13
jeunesse dorée, ref1
Johnson, Samuel, ref1
Johnson, William, ref1
Joubert, chevalier de, ref1, ref2
King, the. See Louis XVI
Lacépède, Benoit Germain de la Ville, comte de, ref1
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, marquis de, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15; and Marat, ref1
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de, ref1
Lameth, Charles, ref1
Laplace, Pierre Simon, ref1, ref2
La Rochette (French diplomat), ref1
Lasource, Marie David Albin, ref1
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, ref1, ref2
Le Chapelier laws, ref1
Leclerc, Théophile, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Lecointre (National Guard officer), ref1
Lefebvre, Georges, ref1, ref2n2, ref3n4
légende noire, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Legislative Assembly, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Lemaire, Antoine, ref1
Lemaire, Jean François, ref1
Le Maître, Jean Pierre, ref1
Lenin, V. I., 167n29
Le Roy, Jean Baptiste, ref1
Longwy, ref1
Louis XVI, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13; trial and execution of, ref1, ref2
Loustalot, Élisée, ref1
Louvet, Jean Baptiste, ref1
Lyttleton, Lord George, ref1
Mably, Gabriel Bonnot de, ref1
Malouet, Pierre Victor, ref1, ref2
Maquet (businessman), ref1
Mara (Marat), Albertine, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n60
Mara, David, ref1
Mara, Henri, ref1
Mara, Jean, ref1
Mara, Jean Pierre, ref1
Mara, Marie, ref1
Marat, Jean Paul: allegations of charlatanism and quackery, ref1; allegations of criminality, ref1; allegations of insanity, ref1; appeals for a dictator, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; assassination of, ref1; becomes the People’s Friend, ref1; biographers of, ref1; as candidate for election, ref1, ref2; compared with other revolutionaries, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; and domestic scandal, ref1; and his family, ref1, ref2, ref3n2; as “father of the fraternal societies,” ref1, ref2; founds L’Ami du peuple, ref1, ref2; and freemasonry, ref1; funeral, ref1; and historians of science, ref1; illnesses, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n2; influence of Montesquieu, ref1, ref2, ref3; influence of Rousseau, ref1, ref2, ref3; as medical doctor, ref1, ref2, ref3; patrons and patronage, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; as phantom of revolution, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; and the philosophes, ref1; physical appearance, ref1, ref2; as police target, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; posthumous cult, ref1, ref2; post-Thermidor reputation, ref1, ref2; as prophet, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; and provincial academies, ref1, ref2n24; reasons for rise to prominence, ref1, ref2, ref3; his retirements, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; as revolutionary leader, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; sang-froid, ref1, ref2; as self-promoter, ref1; translation of Newton’s Opticks, ref1; trial and triumph, ref1; underground existence, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; underground existence ends, ref1, ref2n28; on the war question, ref1, ref2; youth and adolescence, ref1
Marat’s publications: The Adventures of the Young Count Potowski, ref1; L’Ami du peuple, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23; “Appeal to the Fédérés of ref1 Departments,” ref1; Appeal to the Nation, ref1; C’en est fait de nous (It’s All Over for Us), ref1; Chains of Slavery, ref1, ref2n17, ref3n23, ref4n12; Les Charlatans modernes, ref1; The Constitution, or Proposal for a Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, ref1; Découvertes sur la lumière, ref1n14; Denunciation of Necker, ref1; L’École des citoyens (School for Citizens), ref1; Essay on the Human Soul, ref1; De l’homme, ref1; The Horrible Awakening, ref1, ref2; The Infernal Project of the Enemies of the Revolution, ref1; It’s a Beautiful Dream, But Beware the Awakening, ref1; Journal de la République Française (JRF), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n34; Mémoire sur l’électricité médical, ref1n20; Mémoires académiques, ref1n21; Moniteur Patriote, ref1; Offering to the Nation, ref1; A Philosophical Essay on Man, ref1; Plan of Criminal Legislation, ref1; A Project to Deceive the People, ref1; Publiciste de la République Française (PRF), ref1, ref2 ref1n34; Publiciste Parisien, ref1; Recherches physiques sur le feu, ref1n14; Recherches physiques sur l’électricité, ref1n14; Supplement to the Offering to the Nation, ref1; We’re Being Lulled to Sleep—Be On Guard!, ref1
Marseillaise, the, ref1
Marx, Karl, ref1, ref2, ref3n12
Marxism, ref1
Masonic lodge, ref1
Massacre of St. George’s Fields, ref1
materialism, ref1
Maury, L. F., ref1
Meunier, the widow (printer), ref1
Michelet, Jules, ref1
Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n88
Montagnards. See Mountain
Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de, ref1, ref2, ref3
Morelly (French Enlightenment author), ref1
Motier. See Lafayette
Mountain, the, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
municipal assembly, ref1
municipal government. See Paris Commune
Nairac, Paul, ref1
Nancy mutiny, ref1, ref2, ref3
Napoleon. See Bonaparte, Napoleon
National Assembly, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
National Convention. See Convention
National Guard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Necker, Jacques, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Neerwinden, battle of, ref1
Neuchâtel, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Newton, Isaac, ref1, ref2, ref3; his Opticks, ref1, ref2n32
Newtonianism, ref1
Nogent, comte de, ref1
North, Lord, ref1
October Days. See insurrection, of 5 October 1789
L’Orateur du peuple, ref1
Ostervald, F. S., ref1
Oxford University, ref1
Pache, Jean Nicolas, ref1
Paine, Thomas, ref1
Palais-Royal, ref1
Panis, Étienne Jean, ref1
Pantheon, ref1
Paris Commune, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10; of 1871, ref1
Parliament (British), ref1
passive citizenship, ref1, ref2
patriotic societies. See fraternal societies
peasants, peasantry, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Père Duchesne, ref1, ref2. See also Hébert, Jacques René
Père Duchesne, ref1
pharmacology, ref1
philosophes, ref1
Phipson, Sidney L., ref1
physiology, ref1
Pillnitz, Declaration of, ref1
Plain, the, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Plainville (National Guard commander), ref1
private property rights, ref1, ref2
Prudhomme, Louis Marie, ref1, ref2n58
Prussia, Prussians, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Raspail, François, ref1
Reign of Terror. See Terror, the
Restif de la Bretonne, Nicolas Edmé, ref1, ref2
Restoration. See Bourbon Restoration
revolution of 1830, ref1
Revolutionary Central Committee, ref1, ref2
Revolutionary Tribunal, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Révolutions de France et de Brabant, ref1
Rey, Marc Michel, ref1
Riquetti. See Mirabeau
Robert, Pierre François Joseph, ref1, ref2n58
Robespierre, Maximilien, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; comparison with Marat, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; encounter with Marat, ref1
Robin Hood, ref1
Roland, Jean Marie, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Roland, Manon Phlipon, ref1
Roume de Saint-Laurent, Philippe, ref1
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, ref1, ref2, ref3
Roux, Jacques, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Royal Society of Medicine (Paris), ref1
Rudé, George, ref1n27
Russian Revolution, ref1, ref2
St. Andrews University, ref1
St. Cloud incident, ref1
Saint-Just, Louis Antoine, ref1, ref2
sans-culottes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22n27; coalition with Jacobins, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Santerre, Antoine Joseph, ref1
September Massacres, ref1
Servan, Joseph, ref1
Soboul, Albert, ref1n27
Société Typographique de Neuchâtel, ref1
solar microscope, ref1
Subsistence Committee, ref1
Taine, Hippolyte, ref1
Talma, François Joseph, ref1
tax farmers, ref1
Terror, the, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Tessier, Henri Alexandre, ref1
Thermidor, Thermidorian reaction, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n7
Thompson, J. M., ref1n8, ref2n88
Toulouse, ref1
Tressan, Louis Élisabeth de La Vergne, comte de, ref1
Twain, Mark, ref1
Valazé, Charles Eléonore, ref1n72
Valmy, battle of, ref1
Varennes, flight to, ref1, ref2
Varlet, Jean, ref1, ref2, ref3
Verdun, ref1
Vergniaud, Pierre Victurnien, ref1
veterinarian, ref1
Vincennes, Château de, ref1
Voidel (police official and Jacobin), ref1
Voltaire, ref1
Wallis, comte de, ref1
War, declarations, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Waterloo, ref1
Weigel, Christian Ehrenfriend, ref1n15
White Terror, the, ref1
Wilkes-and-Liberty movement, ref1, ref2, ref3
xenophobia, ref1
Zucchi, Antonio, ref1