Index

Abd-el-Kader, Algerian leader 186, 222

Aboukir Bay, battle of (1798) 20, 219

About, Edmond 206, 294

Académie Celtique 70–71

Action Française 13, 277, 280, 429, 433

Action Libérale (1902) 360

Action Libérale Populaire (1906) 280, 285, 360

Adam, Adolphe, composer 181

Adam, Edmond, politician 166, 229–36, 237, 239, 252

Adam, Juliette, salon hostess 9, 165, 166–236, 238, 239, 252, 397–8, 412, 420

Affre, Denis, archbishop of Paris 137

Agoult, Marie d’, salon hostess 62, 146–7, 148, 161, 164, 165, 166

agriculture

depression in 313–15

modernization of 314–15

population working in 313, 440

Aigues-Mortes 319

Aix-les-Bains 88

Albert, Marcellin, winegrowers’ leader 316–17

Alès 341

Alexander I, tsar of Russia 30, 33, 38, 215

Alexander II, tsar of Russia 195, 218

Alexander III, tsar of Russia 419, 420

Algeria

conquest of 60, 108, 222

settlement in 98

wine exports from 315

Allain, Marcel, writer 404

Allais, Alphonse, humorist 406

Allemane, Jean, socialist militant 266

Alliance Démocratique (1903) 281, 286

Allier, Raoul, Protestant academic 337

Allis, Harry, journalist 421

Almereyda, Miguel, anarchist 427

Alsace-Lorraine

religious practice in 125–7, 349

loss of (1870–71) 232, 239, 247, 410–12

in German Empire 294–6, 349

refugees from 294–5

campaign to recover 14, 277, 429–30, 435

Alzon, Père Emmanuel d’, Assumptionist 128, 330

Amiens, Peace of (1802) 207, 219

Amouretti, Frédéric, regionalist 299

anarchism 259–60, 268–9

anarcho-syndicalism 269–70, 281

Ancelot, Madame, salon hostess 172

Ancien Régime, the 1, 2, 40, 71, 114–15, 249

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett, doctor 166, 379, 387

André, General Louis 283, 425

Angoulême, Louise-Antoine, Duc d’ 43, 46, 47

Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, Duchesse d’ 46, 47, 146

Anspach, Cécile 332

anticlericalism 119, 122, 133, 339–43, 344–5, 357–9

Anti-Semitic League (1898) 265, 275, 276, 356

anti-Semitism 11, 265, 266–74, 275, 350, 353–5, 356, 422

Anzin mines 156–7, 272, 346

strike at (1884) 317, 320

Apollinaire, Guillaume, writer 400–401

Ardèche, industry in 94

religion in 348–9

Arenberg, Auguste-Louis, Prince d’, royalist 272, 335

army, colonial 424.

officers 107–8,

military reform (1868) 230, (1872) 411, (1889) 419, (1905) 424, (1913, Three-Year Law) 287, 288, 434, 435

Aron, Marguerite, teacher 378

Ars, curé d’ see Vianney, Jean-Marie-Baptiste

Artois, Comte d’ see Charles X

Association Bretonne 75, 88

Association Catholique de la Jeunesse Française 361–2

Associations Law

(1834) 100

(1901) 278, 283, 350

Assumptionist congregation 338, 354, 358

athletics 408–9

Auber, Daniel, composer 181

Auclert, Hubertine, feminist 382, 383, 386, 387, 388

Audiffret-Pasquier, Duc d’, royalist 249, 251

Audiganne, Armand, writer 125

Auerstadt, battle of (1806) 33

Augagneur, Victor, mayor of Lyon 303–4, 328

Augereau, General Pierre 32

Aulard, Alphonse, historian 260, 279

Aumale, Duc d’, Orleanist prince 238

Austerlitz, battle of (1805) 33, 170, 182, 186

Austria

and wars against France 20–22, 33, 37

rule in Italy (1814–59) 201–2

as a great power 410, 416, 419, 434

automobile 309

Automobile Club de France (1895) 309

Auvergne, colony in Paris 102–3, 324

avant-garde 390, 393, 399, 402

Avignon 73, 77, 78

Bailly, Vincent de Paul, Assumptionist 338, 354

Bakunin, Michael, anarchist 234, 288

Balkan wars (1912–13) 433

Balzac, Honoré de, writer

early career 173

Béatrix 148

The Chouans 3, 76–7, 173

Cousin Pons 101–2

Le Député d’Arcis 74

Eugénie Grandet 160, 111, 114

La Femme de trente ans 145

The Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin) 173

The Peasants 91, 311

Le Père Goriot 105–6, 110

The Physiology of Marriage 144–5, 173

La Vieille Fille 6, 146

banking see bourgeoisie, financial

Barail, Charles du, soldier 107–8

Barante, Prosper de, historian 72–3

Barbès, Armand, revolutionary 33, 56

Barbets, counter-revolutionaries 25

Bardo, Treaty of (1881) 416

Baroche, Jules, politician 58, 60

Barodet, Désiré, Lyon politician 242, 248, 290, 341

Barras, Paul, Director 24, 25, 27

Barrès, Maurice, writer and politician

as a bohemian 394, 395

and Boulangism 264

and socialism 269

Les Déracinés 326–7

and regionalism 299–300, 301

and the Dreyfus Affair 356–7

and nationalism 13, 429–30

and Péguy 363, 438–9

Barrot, Odilon, politician 54, 58, 60

Bartholdi, sculptor 424

Bartholony, François, banker 87

Barthou, Louis, politician 11, 13, 272, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 332

Basly, Émile, miners’ leader 322, 332

Bataille, Henri, writer 369–70

Baudelaire, Charles, writer 188–9

Baudin, Jean-Baptiste, republican 64

Bazaine, General Achille 230, 233

Beauce 22, 92, 123, 311, 313, 314

Beauharnais, Eugène 34

Beauharnais, Hortense 33, 57, 60

Beauharnais, Joséphine de 19, 27, 36, 37

Beaumont, Gustave de, writer 212–14

Beauquier, Charles, regionalist 301

Belgium

French occupy 20

peasant war in (1799) 22

revolt in (1830) 134

migrants from 318

Belleville 83–4, 374

Belleville manifesto (1869) 90, 290, 340

Béranger, Pierre-Jean, popular poet 48, 180

Bérenger, Henri, writer 327, 329, 330

Berg, Grand Duchy of (1806) 33

Bergson, Henri, philosopher 349, 362

Berlin, Conference of (1884) 417

Berlin, Congress of (1878) 416

Berlioz, Hector, composer 194

Bernadotte, Marshal Jean-Baptiste 24, 25, 26, 30, 34, 38

Bernard, Émile artist 395

Berry, Duc de (assassinated 1820) 46, 74, 133

Berry, Marie Caroline Ferdinande, Duchesse de 74, 85, 179

Berryer, Pierre-Antoine, lawyer and politician 55, 60, 62, 89

Bert, Paul, politician 342–3

Berthelot, Marcelin, scientist 236

Berthier, Marshal Louis-Alexandre 32, 34, 35, 115

Beslay, Charles, revolutionary 241–2

Beyle, Henri see Stendhal

Béziers, mutiny at (1907) 284, 316–17

Biarritz 87

Billot, General 273, 274

Bismarck, German chancellor

visits Paris (1867) 195

and German wars of unification (1864–70) 207

and Franco-Prussian war 229, 232, 238, 243

and France after 1870 411, 416, 417, 418, 420

Blanc, Louis, socialist 210, 236, 253

Blanqui, Auguste, revolutionary 7, 10, 48, 52, 53, 55, 56, 235, 237, 239, 240, 241, 243

Blanquists 241, 243, 258, 261, 263, 264

Bloc des Gauches (1902) 282–3, 284, 285, 385

Bloy, Léon, writer 362, 396

Blum, Léon, politician 273, 349, 356, 357, 362, 366–7, 398

Bocage, Pierre, actor 171

Boisdeffre, General 274

Bonaparte, Caroline (1782–1839) 32

Bonaparte, Jérôme, king of Westphalia (1784–1860) 33, 60

Bonaparte, Jérôme-Napoléon, ‘Plon-Plon’ (1805–70) 60, 158, 263, 398

Bonaparte, Joseph, king of Naples, then of Spain (1768–1844) 32, 33, 37

Bonaparte, Louis, king of Holland (1778–1846) 32, 33, 44

Bonaparte, Louis-Napoleon (1808–73) see Napoleon III

Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon-Eugène, prince imperial (1856–79) 250, 257

Bonaparte, Lucien (1775–1840) 26, 28, 32

Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769–1821) see Napoleon I

Bonapartism

under monarchy 47–8, 184

in the Second Republic 57–8

in Third Republic 11, 246, 247–8, 250, 261, 262, 263, 276, 290

Bonnard, Pierre, artist 395–6

Bordeaux

travel to 76, 86

government retreat to (1870) 237, 289

National Assembly in (1871) 239

Bory, mayor of Lyon 242

Boucicaut, Aristide, trader 103

Bouguereau, William, artist 196–7, 392

Bouillé, Jean-Pierre, prefect 68

Boulanger, General Georges 260–65

Boulanger Affair 260–65, 299–300, 418

Boulogne, camp at (1804) 33

Bonapartist landing at (1840) 57, 60

Bourdon, Victor, soldier 437, 438, 439

Bourgeois, Léon, politician 270–71, 272

bourgeoisie

administrative 105–9, 332–3

commercial/industrial 110–12, 334–5

financial 87, 112–14, 334–5

professional 327–31

Bourges, Michel de, lawyer 147

Bourget, Paul, writer 366, 369, 397

Bourgoing, Baron, Bonapartist 250

Bourmont, Count Ghislaine de 26

Bourses du Travail 270, 322–3

Bouvier, Jeanne, labour militant 320, 373–5, 384

Braque, Georges, artist 401

Brazza, Captain Pierre Savorgnan de, explorer 417

Brès, Madeleine, doctor 153, 236

Brest 66, 67

Briand, Aristide, politician 269–70, 271, 284, 285, 286, 287, 306, 308, 321, 359, 387

brigandage 22, 67

Brisson, Henri, politician 275, 423

Brittany

administrators in 69–70

agriculture in 314,

in art 395, 396

Breton language in 70, 75, 297, 304–5

colony in Paris 314, 347

counter-revolution in see chouannerie

discovered by writers 66–7, 75

migration from 314, 321

provincial liberties of 88

religious practice in 70, 75, 128–30

tourism in 308–10

Broglie, Albert de, politician 247, 248, 250–51, 253, 290–91

Broglie, Victor de, politician 35–6, 44, 62, 64, 115

Bruant, Aristide, impresario 406

Brousse, Paul, socialist 250, 259, 260, 266

Brune, Marshal (killed 1815) 73, 78

Bruno, G. see Fouillée, Augustine

Bückler, Johannes, alias Schinderhannes 22

Budes de Guébrinant, Hervé, Breton royalist 316

Buffet, André, royalist 276, 277, 278

Buffet, Louis, royalist 276

Bugeaud, General Thomas-Robert 222

Buisson, Ferdinand, Protestant academic 140, 343, 357, 359

Bülow, Bernhard von, German chancellor 426

Bureau, Gaston, actor 177

Byron, Lord 184, 185

cabinets de lecture 175

Cachin, Marcel, socialist 419

Cadoudal, Georges, royalist conspirator 26, 30, 31

café-concerts see music

Caillaux, Henriette 286, 288, 371

trial of (1914) 288, 371

Caillaux, Joseph, politician 11–12, 278, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 331, 371, 430–31, 434

Caillavet, Léontine, salon hostess 331, 371

Callais, Nina de, salon hostess 393

Cambacérès, Jean-Jacques-Régis de, politician 28, 32

Cambon, Jules, diplomat 330–31

Cambon, Paul, diplomat 330–31

Cambry, Jacques, prefect 69–70

Camisards 127–8

Camp, Maxime du, writer 79, 82, 188, 189, 259

Campo Formio, Treaty of (1797) 20

Canning, Stratford, diplomat 225–6

Carette, Henri, socialist 302

caricature, political 175–6

Carmaux 267–8, 302, 318, 320

Carnot, Hippolyte, republican 58, 89, 90

Carnot, Lazare, revolutionary 24, 31, 40, 44, 58

Carnot, Sadi, president of the Republic 262, 264, 269, 272, 318

Carrel, Armand, journalist 52, 176

Carvalho, Léo, impresario 194

Casiero, Santo Geronimo, anarchist 269

Casimir-Périer, Auguste, politician 248, 251

Casimir-Périer, Jean, president of the Republic (1894–5) 272

Cassagnac, Paul de, journalist 247–8, 263

Cassano, battle of (1799) 21

Castellane, Boni de, playboy 335, 371

Cathelineau, Henri de, Vendean leader 291

Catherine the Great 215

Catholic Church

reform of Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790) 4, 22, 122, 125, 129, 360

oath to Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1791) 4, 122, 124, 125, 129

and sale of Church land 4, 91–2

and dechristianization 22, 24

and revival after the Revolution 8, 119–22, 131–3

and Concordat (1802) 6, 12, 29, 32, 118, 121, 132, 245, 305, 340, 344

attacked in 1830 122, 133

and liberty 134–6, 138–9, 343

and democracy 123, 354–5

and minority language 297, 304–5

patterns of religious practice 122–31, 345–9

and popular religion 122, 129–31

recruitment and training of priests 120–21

religious congregations 149–50, 342, 345, 348, 358–9, 360

and Second Empire 138

and war of 1870 231, 337,

and Paris Commune 243–4, 337

and Moral Order (1873–7) 338–9

and attacks under Third Republic 10, 280, 283, 339–45, 358–60

and the Ralliement 350–55

and Separation of Church and state (1905) 12, 14, 284, 340, 359–60, 441

and renaissance after Separation 14, 361–3

Cavaignac, Eugène, soldier and dictator 8, 56, 58

Cavaignac, Godefroy, republican militant 7, 52, 55

Cavaignac, Godefroy, politician 275

centralization, administrative 6

law of 1800 6, 68

buckles (1815) 71–3

in Second Republic 84–5

in Second Empire 86–7

buckles (1870–71) 233–4, 242, 289, 290

in Third Republic 290, 302–3, 307–8, 440

Cévennes 127–8, 298, 348–9

Chailley-Bert, Joseph, colonialist, 421

Chambord, Comte de, Legitimist pretender 249–50, 257, 351

Chambrun, Comte de, royalist 272

Champfl eury, art critic 196

Chaplin, Charlie 408

Chaptal, Jean-Antoine, scientist and politician 68–9

Charcot, Jean-Martin, scientist 379

Charette de la Contrie, Athanase, Vendean leader 291, 337, 351

Charlemagne, model for Napoleon 32–3

Charles, archduke of Austria 21

Charles X, king of France 31, 42, 43, 46, 47, 74, 114, 133, 169, 170, 186, 249

Charles-Brun, Jean, regionalist 300–301, 307

Charlet, Nicholas-Toussaint, artist 48, 184

Chartres 92, 338, 351

Chateaubriand, François-René de

and Revolution 5, 29

visits America 211, 212, 213

and Napoleon 30, 31

visits Holy Land 220

at Restoration 45, 46

Atala 168, 211

Genius of Christianity 6, 131–2, 168

Chatrian, Alexandre, writer 295

Chatrousse, Émile, sculptor 414

Chevalier, Michel, economist 108

Chesnelong, Pierre-Charles, royalist 249

Chevreuse, Duchesse de 36

China 418

Chopin, Frédéric, composer 148

chouannerie 67, 72, 75

Clemenceau, Georges

early life 63

marriage 256, 330

mayor of Montmartre 240–41, 330

radical critic of the Republic 258–9, 260

and Boulangism 261, 262, 263–4

and Dreyfus Affair 273, 274

‘first cop in France’ 283–4, 316–17

prime minister 28–5

and centralization 307–8

and feminism 389

and society 398

and colonies 417, 418, 430–31

Clément, Jean-Baptiste, songwriter 302

Clermont-Ferrand 334, 361

cinema 407–8

Civil Code (1804) 144, 154, 366

centenary of 386

Clichy incident (1891) 269

Coignet, Jean-Roch, Napoleonic soldier 34, 41

colonial lobby 421–2, 425

colonies

North Africa 416–17, 422, 425–6, 431, 443

sub-Saharan Africa 416–17, 421, 422, 423, 424, 433, 443

Indo-China 418, 425, 443

see also Fashoda crisis, Morocco crises

colporteurs 175

Combes, Émile, politician 282–3, 294, 330, 358–9, 424–5

Comité des Forges 112, 334, 335

Comité Flamand de France 301

Commentry 302

Communards, amnesty of 252, 258, 259, 279

Commune, Paris (1871) 9, 10, 11, 229, 236, 240–45

compagnonnage 96–7, 99, 163

Compayré, Gabriel, educationist 344

Concordat see Catholic Church

Condé, Prince de 29, 31

Confédération Générale du Travail (1895) 270, 282, 284–5, 287, 434, 435, 436

congregations, religious see Catholic Church

Constans, Ernest, politician 264

Constant, Benjamin, liberal 5, 30, 40, 46, 143, 159

constitution

(1793) 23

(1795) 23

(1799) 27–8

(1802) 28, 30

(1804) 31

(1814 Charter) 39, 42, 107

(1830) 50

(1848) 56

(1852) 59

(1870) 9, 65

(1875) 250–51

Consulate (1799–1804) 28–31

Cooper, James Fenimore, writer 91, 171

Coppée, François, writer 277

Corsica 79

Cotte, Gilbert, miners’ leader 322

Courbet, Gustave, artist 11, 196, 241

Couriau, Emma and Louis, printworkers 375

Courteline, Georges, writer 419

Cousin, Victor, educationist, 109

Couture, Thomas, artist 186–7

Crédit Foncier 87

Crédit Immobilier 113–14

Crédit Lyonnais 334–5

Crédit Mobilier 87, 13–14

Crémieux, Adolphe, politician 106

Crémieux, Gaston, revolutionary 233, 234, 242, 290

Creuse 95, 97, 120, 124

Cubism 400

Cunéo d’Ornano, Gustave, Bonapartist 276

Curie, Marie, scientist 378–9

Curie, Pierre, scientist 378–9

Custine, Astolf de, writer 216–17

cycling 409

Dalou, Jules, sculptor 264, 279

Danton, Georges, revolutionary 260

Darboy, Mgr, archbishop of Paris 243–4

Darien, Georges, antimilitarist 12, 419

Dartigues, J.-P., doctor 367–8

Daubié, Julie, writer 152, 166

Daudet, Alphonse, writer 11, 105, 295, 391, 392

Daudet, Julia, salon hostess 391

Daudet, Léon, politician 397

Daumier, Honoré, artist 160, 176, 182

David, Jacques-Louis, artist 6, 182–3, 184, 185

Davout, Marshal Louis 35

Deauville 87

Debraux, Émile, songwriter 48

Debussy, Claude, composer 12, 394, 399, 400

Decadence see Symbolism

Decaves, Lucien, antimilitarist 419

Decazes, Elie, politician 44–5, 46, 73, 94, 114

Decazeville 94, 320

decentralization

in the Second Republic 85–6

in the Second Empire 89–90, 291

in the Third Republic 201–2, 291–2, 297–301, 306–8, 440

Degas, Édouard, artist 197, 392, 393

Delacroix, Eugène, artist 8, 172, 185–6, 187, 188

Delaunay, Robert, artist 400

Delcassé, Théophile, politician 421, 430

Delécluze, Étienne-Jean, art critic 184, 196

Delescluze, Charles, revolutionary 9, 52, 55, 64, 106, 237, 241, 243, 258

Denis, Maurice, artist 12, 395, 396

department stores 103, 323–4

Deroin, Jeanne, feminist 161, 162, 163

Déroulède, Paul, nationalist 261, 263, 264, 276, 277, 279, 384, 397, 415, 417, 420, 428, 435

Descaves, Lucien, antimilitarist 12, 397, 409

Desgranges, Henri, promoter 409

Desraismes, Maria, feminist 10, 166, 370, 381–2

Detourbey, Marie-Anne see Loynes, Comtesse de

Diaghilev, Serge, impresario 400

Diavolo, Fra, Italian monk 21

Diderot, Denis 149

Didon, Father, Dominican 13

Dillon, Count Arthur, royalist 263, 264

Directory, French (1795–9) 19–27

Divorce

law of 1792 4, 143, 370

Civil Code and 144

law of 1816 144

law of 1884 10, 353, 370–71

Dollfus, Jean, industrialist 111–12

domestic service 95, 155

Dorval, Marie, actress 147, 171, 178

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, writer 420

Doumer, Paul, politician 425

Doumergue, Gaston, politician 288

Dreikaiserbund 419

Dreyfus

Alfred (d. 1935) 127, 273–9, 296, 349, 354, 355

Henriette (d. 1931) 296

Jacob (d.1838) 127

Jacques 127, 296, 349

Léon (d. 1911) 127

Lucie (d. 1945) 278, 349

Mathieu (d. 1930) 127, 273, 355

Raphaël (d. 1893) 127, 296

Dreyfus Affair 11, 12, 13, 14, 273–9, 332, 355–7

and French art 398–9, 401

and international crisis 422–3

Drouet, Juliette, actress 166, 171

Drumont, Édouard, anti-Semite 265, 275, 353–4, 355, 356, 363

Dubourg, Arthur 368

Ducray-Duminil, Guillaume, writer 175

Dumas, Alexandre, fils 11, 158, 187–8, 368, 370, 381, 383, 391, 398

Dumas, Alexandre, père 8, 106, 170–72, 173, 217–18

Dumay, Jean-Baptiste, labour militant 101

Dupanloup, Félix, bishop of Orléans 109, 123, 153, 414–15

Durand, Marguerite, feminist 12, 383–4, 388

Duras, Duc and Duchesse de 116

Durkheim, Émile, sociologist 349

Duruy, Victor, education minister 153

École Centrale de Commerce et de l’Industrie 333, 334

École des Mines 104

École des Ponts et Chaussées 108

École Libre des Sciences Politiques 272, 408

École Militaire Spéciale see Saint-Cyr

École Normale de Sèvres 378

École Normale Supérieure 109, 268, 274, 414, 438

École Polytechnique 107–8, 328–9, 333, 361

Edgeworth, Maria 143

education

primary 2, 103–4, 140, 326, 340–45

secondary 105, 135–6, 326–9, 342

higher 105, 327

Edward VII 195, 425

Edwards, Blanche, doctor 379, 380, 383

Egypt

Napoleon in (1798) 5, 19, 20, 21

French support viceroy of 221–2

French visitors to 223

Suez Canal built 225–6

France loses (1882) 226, 417–20

Eiffel, Gustave, engineer 103, 333

Eiffel Tower 397, 403

Elba, island of 40

Elections, legislative

(1797) 24

(1798) 24

(1799) 24

(1815) 43, 73

(1848) 55

(1849) 58, 84

(1852) 61–2

(1857) 62

(1863) 64, 89

(1869) 64

(1871) 238–9, 246–7, 290

(1876) 252

(1877) 253

(1881) 257, 260, 344

(1885) 257, 260, 344

(1889) 264

(1893) 268, 270, 302

(1898) 275, 356

(1902) 281, 282, 360

(1906) 281, 284, 360

(1910) 281, 285

(1914) 281, 288

Empire, First (1804–15)

political system 61–3

political elites 60–61, 107

religion 6, 12, 29, 32

liberalization 42

foreign policy 32–5, 37–8

Empire, Second (1852–70)

political system 61–3

political elites 60–61, 107

religion 138

economic boom 86–7, 88

urban development 86–7

liberalization 9, 63–5

foreign policy 63, 198, 202–3

Enfantin, Prosper, utopian 161–2

Enghien, Duc d’ (executed 1805) 31

Entente Cordiale, the (1904) 425, 435

Erckmann, Émile, writer 295

Esquiros, Alphonse, republican 234

Esterhazy, Major Ferdinand 273

Estourbeillon, Marquis de l’, regionalist 301

Étienne, Eugène, colonialist 13, 421, 422, 425

Eudes, Émile, revolutionary 241, 258, 259, 263

Eugénie, Empress 61, 87, 153, 198, 226

exhibitions, international

(1855) 194–5, 196

(1867) 151, 195

(1889) 292, 333, 397

(1900) 292, 320, 424

Eylau, battle of (1807) 33, 34

Fabre, Joseph, politician 352

Fallières, Armand, president of the Republic 280, 286

Falloux, Comte Alfred de, royalist 55, 58, 60, 62, 85, 86, 89, 239, 247, 248, 249

Fashoda crisis (1898) 422–3

Faubourg Saint-Germain 74, 81, 110, 115–16, 146, 335, 336

Faucher, Léon, economist 209, 210

Faure, Félix, president of the Republic 272, 274, 276

Faure, Maurice, politician 306

Faure, Sébastien, anarchist 269

Fauré, Gabriel, composer 399

Favre, Jules, politician 52–3, 63, 231, 232, 238, 362

Fayard, Joseph, publisher 414

Federation of Agricultural Workers of the Midi 316

Federation of Landworkers 316

Fédération des Bourses du Travail (1892) 266, 270, 282

Fédération des Travailleurs Socialistes de France, or Possibilists (1882) 258, 266

Fédération Nationale des Syndicats 267, 270

Fédération Républicaine (1902) 281, 307

Fédération Régionaliste Française (1900) 301, 307

Félibrige, the 297–9, 300, 316

Félix, Élisa-Rachel, actress, 179

Fénéon, Félix, art critic 269, 394, 396, 397

Ferdinand VII, king of Spain 47

Ferré, Théophile, revolutionary 241

Ferroul, Ernest, mayor of Narbonne 316

Ferry, Jules, politician

republican opposition 9, 63, 87, 89

marriage 256

mayor of Paris 235, 237, 240, 259

political base 256

education reforms of 10, 254, 342–4, 345

prime minister 255, 257, 260, 321

colonial projects 416, 418

and presidency of the Republic 261–2

Fesch, Cardinal, archbishop of Lyon 32

Fête de la Fédération (1790) 4

Fez, Treaty of (1912) 431

Fieschi, Joseph, conspirator 53

Fiévée, Joseph, polemicist 143, 207–8

Flahaut, Comtesse de 116

Flamidien Affair (1899) 346–7

Flanders 124–5, 346, 355

Flaubert, Gustave

early career 189

Madame Bovary 189–90, 191–2, 329

Salammbô 224

Sentimental Education 190–91

Temptation of St Antony 244

and George Sand 148–9, 191, 233, 244, 296

travels in France 79

on Italy 202

visits the Orient 189, 223–4

in 1870–71 233, 244, 245

in Third Republic 391, 392

death 391

Floquet, Charles, politician 10, 63, 256, 264

Flourens, Gustave, revolutionary 237, 240, 241

Fokine, Michel, Russian choreographer 15

Folies Bergère 237, 407

football 408, 409

Forbach, battle of (1870) 230

Fouché, Joseph

representative on mission 22

minister of police (1799) 25, 29, 31

and Napoleon 34

at Restoration 42, 43

Fougères 319, 328, 329, 374

Fouillée, Augustine, writer 296

Fould, Achille, banker and politician 58

Fould, Benedict, banker 60

Foulon, Louis, cartoonist 405–6

Fourmies, massacre at (1891) 267, 419

France, Anatole, writer 397, 398, 402

Franche-Comté

and counter-revolution 71–2

peasantry of 93

religious life in 125

Francis II, emperor of Austria 33

Frankfurt, Treaty of (1871) 410, 411

Franqueville, Charles de 4, 107

Frederick the Great 33, 206, 337

Frederick William III, King of Prussia 38

freemasons 242–3, 283, 356, 424

Frégier, Honoré-Antoine, writer 80–81, 82

Fréjus 19, 27

Frémiet, Emmanuel, sculptor 13, 338, 391

French League for Women’s Rights (1882) 382, 383

French Union for Women’s Suffrage (1907) 387

Freppel, Mgr Charles-Émile, bishop and politician 393–4

Freycinet, Charles de, technician and politician 232, 252, 259, 260, 342

Friedland, battle of (1807) 33, 186

Froeschwiller, battle of (1870) 230

Froment, Pierre, polemicist 356

Frotté, Louis de, royalist 2, 26, 30

Fustel de Coulanges, Numa Denis, historian 11, 412, 413, 415

Gaboriau, Émile, writer 7, 193

Galliéni, General Joseph-Simon 13, 415, 416, 421, 422, 423, 424

Gallifet, General Gaston 278

Gambetta, Léon

early career 106, 353

republican opposition 64, 90, 397

republican dictator (1870–71) 231–4, 252, 290

republican orator (1871–7) 239–47, 250, 252, 280, 340, 341, 411

republican politician (1877–82) 254, 255, 256, 260, 279, 397

Gard 73–4

Garnier, Abbé 355

Gauguin, Paul, artist 395, 396

Gautier, Théophile, artist and poet 75, 145, 188, 218–19, 236, 391

Gay, Delphine see Girardin, Delphine de

Gay, Sophie 145, 170, 172

Gayraud, Abbé Hippolyte 355

generations

revolutionary (born c. 1760) 3–6

Romantic (born c. 1800) 6–9

Realist (born c. 1830) 9–11, 339

of rejuvenators (born c. 1860) 11–13

of sacrifice (born c. 1890) 13–15

Gent, Alphonse 9, 234

George, Stefan, poet 394

Gérard, Baron François, artist 172, 183, 184

Géricault, Théodore, artist 184, 185

Germany

under Napoleonic rule 33, 34, 205

French views of 203–7

German Confederation 205

German unification 207

and war of 1870–71 65, 230–31, 233, 410–11

revanche against 411–12, 413

colonial deals with 416–17, 421

war scare (1887) 418

and Morocco crises 3, 14, 425–6, 430–32

and outbreak of war (1914) 433–6

Gérôme, Jean-Léon, artist 196–7, 198, 391

Giard, Alfred, politician 317

Gide, André, writer 12, 394, 402

Girardin, Delphine de 8–9, 145–6, 160–61, 172, 173, 383

Girardin, Émile de 146, 173, 174, 176

Girodet, Anne-Louis, artist, 183

Girondins 54

Gobineau, Arthur de 11, 291

goguettes 180, 406

Goncourt, Edmond de, writer 190, 197, 236, 238, 242, 244, 245, 298, 391, 392, 406

Goncourt, Jules de, writer 190, 197, 236, 391

Goncourt Prize 452

Goudeau, Émile, impresario 15, 406

Gouges, Olympe de, revolutionary 158

Gould, Anna, American heiress 276, 335, 371

Gounod, Charles, composer 88, 194, 391, 397

Gramont, Agénor, Duc de, foreign minister 65, 335

Granger, Ernest, revolutionary 258, 259

Grave, Jean, anarchist 269, 270, 397

Great Britain

and revolutionary–Napoleonic wars 19–21, 25, 33

French views of 207–10

and crisis of 1840 221

colonial rivalry with 416–17, 421–3

Entente Cordiale with (1904) 425, 435

Greffulhe, Comtesse Élisabeth de 336, 401

Grégoire, Abbé 46

Grenoble 36, 40, 78

Grévy, Jules, president of the Republic 254, 260–62

Gros, Baron Antoine-Jean, artist 175, 183, 184, 186

Grunebaum-Ballin, Paul 359

Guéhenno, Jean, writer 328–9

Guérin, Jules, anti-Semite 10, 275, 276, 278, 279

Guérin, Marguerite, trader 103

Guesde, Jules, socialist 258, 259, 267, 268, 270, 274, 275, 281, 288, 302, 346

Guibert, Yvette, singer 407

Guillaumin, Émile, peasant writer 311–12, 316

Guizot, François

and restored monarchy 39, 40, 45, 48–9

and July Monarchy 50, 51, 53, 54, 115, 221

Empire 63

education reforms of 103–4, 395

gymnastics 408–9

Gyp, writer 364–6, 384

Hachette, Louis, publisher 192, 306

Hamilton, Anna, nursing reformer 380

Hanska, Countess Anna de 173

Haussez, Baron d’ 209

Haussmann, Baron Georges 61, 82–4, 86–7

Haussonville, Comte d’ 116

Hayward, Léon, publicist 15, 405

Hazebrouck 124, 355

Hénon, Louis, Lyon politician 89, 234, 242, 290

Henri I V, king of France 44, 249

Henry, Émile, anarchist 269

Henry, Colonel Hubert Joseph 276, 306, 384

Héricourt, Jenny d’, feminist 6, 164–5, 381

Herr, Lucien, intellectual 10, 268

Herriot, Édouard, politician 304, 328, 329

Hersert, Louis, artist 145, 184

Hervé, Gustave, socialist 427, 432, 435

Herz, Cornelius, promoter 265

Hetzel, P.-J., publisher 403

Hohenlinden, battle of (1800) 32

Holy Roman Empire, dissolution of (1806) 33

horse-racing 15

Houdin, Robert, conjuror 15, 407

Hugo, Victor

family background 8, 38

and restored monarchy 53, 55, 169–70

and Napoleon I 55

and Napoleon III 59, 236

and Catholic Church 138

and Third Republic 231–2, 237, 238, 252, 342

Hernani 145, 170, 171, 178

Marion Delorme 170