I. PARIS AT THE BEGINNING OF 1792 . . . . . . . . . 1 II. COUNT DE FERSON'S LAST JOURNEY TO PARIS . . . . 14 III. THE DEATH OF THE EMPEROR LEOPOLD . . . . . . . . 23 IV. THE DEATH OF GUSTAVUS III . . . . . . . . . . . 32 V. THE BEGINNINGS OF MADAME ROLAND . . . . . . . . 46 VI. MADAME ROLAND'S ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE . . . . . 60 VII. MARIE ANTOINETTE AND MADAME ROLAND . . . . . . . 73 VIII. MADAME ROLAND AT THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR . 85 IX. DUMOURIEZ, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . . . 94 X. THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 XI. THE FÊTE OF THE SWISS OF CHATEAUVIEUX . . . . . 110 XII. THE DECLARATION OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 XIII. THE DISBANDING OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARD . . . 137 XIV. THE SUFFERINGS OF LOUIS XVI . . . . . . . . . . 148 XV. ROLAND'S DISMISSAL FROM OFFICE . . . . . . . . . 158 XVI. A THREE DAYS' MINISTRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 XVII. THE PROLOGUE TO JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . 176 XVIII. THE MORNING OF JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . 186
XIX. THE INVASION OF THE TUILERIES . . . . . . . . . 198 XX. MARIE ANTOINETTE ON JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . 210 XXI. THE MORROW OF JUNE TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . . 219 XXII. LAFAYETTE IN PARIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 XXIII. THE LAMOURETTE KISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 XXIV. THE FÊTE OF THE FEDERATION IN 1792 . . . . . . . 248 XXV. THE LAST DAYS AT THE TUILERIES . . . . . . . . . 259 XXVI. THE PROLOGUE TO THE TENTH OF AUGUST . . . . . . 267 XXVII. THE NIGHT OF AUGUST NINTH TO TENTH . . . . . . . 275 XXVIII. THE MORNING OF AUGUST TENTH . . . . . . . . . . 284 XXIX. THE BOX OF THE LOGOGRAPH . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 XXX. THE COMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 XXXI. THE RESULTS OF THE COMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . 316 XXXII. THE ROYAL FAMILY IN THE CONVENT OF THE FEUILLANTS 329 XXXIII. THE TEMPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 XXXIV. THE PRINCESS DE LAMBALLE'S MURDER . . . . . . . 350 XXXV. THE SEPTEMBER MASSACRES . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 XXXVI. MADAME ROLAND DURING THE MASSACRES . . . . . . . 372 XXXVII. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE REPUBLIC . . . . . . . . 384 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the present. Neither names nor escutcheons, neither liveries nor places at court, had been suppressed. The aristocracy and the Revolution lived face to face. In 1792, the scene has changed. The Paris of the nobility is no longer in Paris, but at Coblentz. The Faubourg Saint-Germain is like a desert. Since June, 1790, armorial bearings have been taken down. The blazons of ancient houses have been broken and thrown into the gutters. No more display, no more liveries, no more carriages with coats-of-arms on their panels. Titles and manorial names are done away with. The Duke de Brissac is called M. Cossé; the Duke de Caraman, M. Riquet; the Duke d'Aiguillon, M. Vignerot. The _Almanach royal_ of 1792 mentions not a single court appointment.