Christopher Hibbert - The Days of the French Revolution

Vadier, Marc-Guillaume, and Danton, 236; and Robespierre, 257, 260, 262; brought to trial, 272; later life, 318

Valazé, a Girondin leader , 222

Valmy, battle of, 179, 180

Varennes, 125–8

Varlet, Jean, 194, 198, 211, 271

Vendée, uprising in, 169; civil war, 194, 202, 215; order restored, 257; anti-Republican control, 273

Vergniaud, Pierre Victurnien (1753–93), 141, 263, 282; President of Legislative Assembly, 136, 159; threatens Court, 144; reassures King, 158; and September Massacres, 181; objects to creation of Revolutionary Tribunal, 195; condemned to death, 222; execution, 223; on Charlotte Corday, 310

Versailles, Petit Trianon, 19; Louis XVI’s library, 24; cuts in Household expenditure, 36; Estates General at, 46, 49–55; troops converge on, 63; banquet for arrival of Flanders Regiment, 95–6; demands for march on, 96; market-women’s march on, 97–100; National Guardsmen converge on, 100; mob violence, 101–3; royal family appear on balcony, 103–4; royal family leaves, 104–5

Victoire, Daughter of France, 119

Vilate, a juryman on Revolutionary Tribunal , 251–2, 254, 318

Vincennes, Château de, 133–4

Voltaire, 71, 205

war, civil, 194, 195, 202–3, 215, 281

Wars, Revolutionary, with Austria and Prussia, 145; Longwy falls, 169; war declared on major European powers, 193; French defeats, 194; Committee of Public Safety prosecutes, 215

White Terror, 272

Young, Arthur, 29–30, 34, 41, 58