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709 Index Locators: Entries in the index are located by both page number, first, and then pensée number, in square brackets: 279[1006], for instance, refers the reader to pensée number 1006 on page 279. Footnotes are indicated by an “n” in the locator number. Thus 656[1280]n2 references note number 2 to pensée number 1280 on page 656. Page numbers in italics indicate illustrative material. Names: Conventions for the indexing and alphabetization of names vary between countries and time periods, and can be confusing for readers to remember. In this index, the following rules have been applied: French people with secular titles are indexed under their titles, not their surnames, as that is standard French practice and also how Montesquieu generally refers to them. Judith-Charlotte de Gontaud-Biron, Countess of Bonneval, for instance, will be found under Bonneval, not Gontaud-Biron. If Montesquieu refers to them by surname, however, which he sometimes does, or if the person is best known to history by his or her surname (Diane de Poitiers, Duchess of Valentinois, for instance), the person will be found under both surname and title. French princes of the blood with titles are listed by title (Bourbon, Louis-Henri, Duke of). Persons with clerical titles (e.g., Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, bishop of Meaux) are listed as Montesquieu referred to them, and if necessary double-posted under both surname and title. French names including d’ and de are indexed at the main element; names including Du, La, and Le are indexed at those elements; and names beginning with de La are indexed at La, according to French convention and The Chicago Manual of Style: A: d’Aydie, Chevalier L: La Beaumelle, Laurent Angliviel de B: Berville, Mme de La Borde, Vivien de D: Du Châtelet, Emilie Le Moyne, Pierre The English aristocracy are conventionally listed under both surname and title, so regardless of how Montesquieu refers to them, you will find them indexed in both places. Royal personages are generally listed by first name; Philip II (king of Spain) is in the Ps. Persons who lived in the middle ages and who did not have proper surnames are generally listed by what we would call their first name: John Capistrano, Raoul II of Brienne. Ancient Romans are entered under the name most commonly used or the name which Montesquieu uses, with their full name in parentheses where appropriate or useful: TitusLivy , Sulla (Lucius Cornelius Sulla), Sulpicius (Publius Sulpicius Rufus). Montesquieu’s name, in non-bibliographical entries, is abbreviated as M when it is not the initial word in the entry. 710 Index Barckhausen’s topical rubrics: The first printed edition of the pensées reorganized Montesquieu’s thoughts by thematic categories, a practice adopted in some later editions of My Thoughts as well. Since these terms and their subcategories are familiar to many readers of Montesquieu, they have been retained in the index as entries, or as crossreferences to topics more in line with modern thought processes—hence the retention of the “psychology” entry and its peculiar (to contemporary readers) subentries. The diligent researcher can find a separate and complete listing of these topics in the “Thematic Table.” Abbasid caliphate, 268[948], 278–79[1006] Abelard, 90[214] Abrégé chronologique (Chronological digest; Mézeray, 1643–51), 90[214]n9 absolute power of kings. See arbitrary power of kings absolute qualities, 238[818], 309[1154] Académie Française: cabal to prevent M’s membership in, 168[472]; Chamillard’s election to, 437[1530]; Le Cid (Corneille, 1638), critique of, 357[1299]; Dictionary of, xvii; fools and well-adorned minds, co-existence of, 275[987]; M’s membership in, viii; M’s Reception Speech, 122–26[299], 128–29[303], 245[841], 245[842]; rules for requesting entry to, 285[1030]; screening of essays sent to, 248[856]; Voltaire’s admission to, 258[896] academies, as diffusers of knowledge, 663[2203] Achilles, 457[1602] acting, art of, 99[242] Addison, Joseph, 35[102] admiration, 73–74[201], 652[2172] Adonis (Marino, 1623), 656[2180]n2 adultery, Roman, 174[499], 525–26[1761] adventurers versus sovereigns, 2[7], 222[747] adversity versus prosperity, 290[1055] Aelian (Claudius), 541[1817] Aelius Spartianus, 231[778]n3 Aemilius Paulus, 71[193]n1 Aeneid (Virgil), 215[709], 252[878], 296[1095] n1, 301–2[1110], 488[1656]n24, 488[1656] n30, 489[1656]n32, 591[1952], 592[1953]n1, 592[1955], 618[2006]n1, 654[2179] Aesop...