A Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789–1794

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iNDeX Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. academies, 5, 8, 71, 80, 97, 124, 152 essay contest on earthquakes, 32–33 accidents in nature, 56, 144 Agriculture, Committee of, 125, 126–127, 133 Alps, 110–111, 114–115 American revolution, 92 amnesty, 47, 49, 51 of crimes “relative to revolution,” 47–49 of the glacière massacres, 45, 49–54 Andress, David, 10, 59 Arendt, Hannah, 13, 170 ark of the 1793 Constitution, 123 Austria, 83–84, 85 Auvergne, 111, 140, 142, 143 Avignon, 44–54, 147 admission to France, 47–48 See also glacière massacres Azéma, Michel, 61, 65–57, 68 Baillie, John, Essay on the Sublime, 117, 119, 120 Bailly, Jean-sylvain, 8 Baker, Keith, 3–4, 54–55 Barère, Bertrand, 8 on alliance between revolution and Nature, 103, 161, 165 decree against taking english prisoners of war, 14–15 on destruction of toulon, 90, 149 on French as “revolutionary like nature,” 14–15, 165 on saltpeter manufacturing, 95–96, 97, 100 on september Massacres, 68 Barra, Joseph, 70–71, 129–130, 135 basalt, 142, 143 Basire, Claude, 50, 52, 67 Bastille, storming of, 83, 93 commemoration of, 1, 2, 135 Beffroy, louis-etienne, 125 Bernardin de saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri, 24, 164 Études de la Nature, 5, 7, 10, 22, 25, 39, 41, 78, 112, 124, 142, 145 and final causes, 22 on lisbon earthquake, 39 Paul et Virginie, 41 Bertrand, elie, 33–34 Billaud-varenne, Jacques-Nicolas, 113–114, 148–149 on revolutionary government, 15, 132, 166 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 163 Bonnet, Charles Contemplation de la Nature, 38 La Palingénésie philosophique, 56 Boudin, Jacques-Antoine, 126, 129, 133 Briois de Beaumetz, Bon-Albert, 48–49 Brissot, Jacques-Pierre, 84, 113 break with Jacobins, 63, 183n.30 on glacière Massacres, 54 involvement with mesmerists, 8 Le Patriote François, 54 on september Massacres, 63 use of volcano metaphor, 202n.96 Brissotins. See girondins Brown, Howard, 168–169 Brydone, Patrick, 36–37, 40, 55, 145 224 Index Buffon, george-louis leclerc, Comte de, 5, 6, 7, 142 on accidents in nature, 21, 56 definition of “natural history,” 174n.20 Époques de la Nature, 77–78, 112, 143–144, 153 on final causes, 22 Histoire Naturelle, 21–22, 56 revolutionary fascination with, 8, 57 Burke, edmund, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, 117, 118, 119 cahiers de doléance, 76 Carnot, lazare, 7–8 Catherine the great, 85, 157 Chabot, François, 114, 195n.81 Chaumette, Pierre-gaspard, 149–150, 153, 166, 194n.46 Chaussard, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste, 83, 147 Chénier, Marie-Joseph, 83, 136, 148 Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 46 Collot d’Herbois, Jean-Marie, 14, 113 on september Massacres, 67 on suppression of revolts in lyon, 90–91 Committee of Public safety, 2, 14–15, 139 and federalist revolts, 90–91 and festival of supreme Being, 119, 120–121 Feuille du Salut Public, 19–20, 156 members’ interest in natural history, 7–8 response to grenelle factoryexplosion, 100 saltpeter program, 94–95, 97, 99, 155–156 See also Barère, Bertrand; Billaudvarenne , Jacques-Nicolas; Carnot, lazare; Collot d’Herbois, Jean-Marie; Hérault de sechelles, Marie-Jean; Prieur de la Côte d’or; robespierre, Maximilien; saint-André, Jean Bon; saint-Just, louis-Antoine Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 8, 185n.52 on september Massacres, 60–61 conscription, 94 Constituent Assembly. See National Assembly Constitution of 1791, 48–49 Constitution of 1793, 2, 108, 121–122 suspension of, 86–87, 123, 131, 166–167 Convention. See National Convention Couturier, Jean-Pierre, 49–50 crimes, public and private, 52, 63–64 “relative to revolution,” 49, 50, 52, 54, 58, 65 David, Jacques-louis, 123 and Festival of unity and indivisibility, 1, 2, 128 death penalty, 59–60 de Baecque, Antoine, 10, 64, 158 dechristianization, 134 Festival of supreme Being as antidote to, 134, 138 défenseur de la patrie, status given to victims of grenelle factory explosion, 101 deism, 24–25 Desbarreaux, Citizen, Les Potentats foudroyés par la Montagne et la Raison, 158, 159 Desmarest, Nicolas, 143, 193n.25 on earthquakes, 34 dessèchement. See swamps (in nature), debates over destruction of d’Holbach, Paul-Henri thiri, Baron, 10, 22–23, 24, 35, 93, 112, 144–145, 165–166 Système de la Nature, 5, 6, 23, 80 Diderot, Denis, 7, 21, 39, 117 See also encyclopédie Dolomieu, Déodat gratet de, 35, 56, 143 Drouet...