(736) 
Index. Charles IV. of France succeeds 
his father John, 550 
Charles V. of Spain a competi- 
tor for the Imperial dignity, 
557. Obtains it, ib. Endea- 
vours to gain from his pri- 
soner Francis I. by intrigue, 
certain conditions, ib. Has 
recourse to arms to enforce 
on him the treaty of Madrid, 
560. Invades France unsuc- 
cessfully, 561. Agrees to 
cede the Milanese to Francisy 
but breaks his promise, ib. 
attacked by Francis and the 
Protestant Confederates, 565. . 
Prepares to recover Lorraine, 
ib. Besieges Metz, ib. Qbli- 
ged to raise the siege, 566. 
Sustains great loss in that 
affair, ib. Invades France, 
ib. Makes a truce with the 
King of France, ib. Aban- 
dons his throne, 567. 
Charles VI. of France succeeds 
his father, 550 
Charles VIL. of France crown- 
ed, 551 
Charles VIII. of France suc+ 
ceeds to Louis XI. 552. In- 
vades ir ae Death and 
character, 
Charles [X. of France ascends 
the throne of France, 574. 
His person seized, 575. His 
character, 576. Enters into 
a treaty with the Protestants 
in 1570, 577. Intrigues with 
Catherine against the Protes- 
tants, ib. His cruelty at the 
massacre of St Bartholomew, 
578. Makes a new. treaty 
with the Protestants, ib. His 
death and character, 579 
Charlotte de Montmorency be- 
loved by Henry IV. 588. 
Married at the King’s desire 
to the Prince of Condé, ib. 
Chastel, John, attempts the life 
of Henry IV. 584 
Chateau Cambresis, treaty of, 
569 
Chatillon, congress at, 660. 
Rupture of the negociations 
there, 661 
Christianity renounced in the 
National Convention of France, 
635 
Cider, manufacture of, 715 
Cing Mars and De Thou execu- 
ted for a conspiracy, 597 
> pact medium #, France, 
Civic oath taken by the King, 
military, &c. 629 
Civil war in France, 551. The 
first, 575. The second, 576. 
~~ third, 577. The fourth, 
Clement, James, assassinates 
Henry ILI, 581 
Cleves and Juliers, senewtion 
for the duchies of, 
Climate of © France, oes. Its 
FRANCE. 
disadvantages in the south, 
ib. Its division into four 
zones, 684 
Clover, cultivation of, 702 
Clovis, reign of, 543 
Coal strata in Provence, 690. 
Other coal mines, ib. Their 
Coligny’s, the Admiral, brave de- 
fence of St Quintin, 568. His 
character, 571. Presents a 
petition from the Calvinists to 
the King, 573. Plot against 
him and the Prince of Condé, 
from which they escape, 576. 
Invests Poictiers, 577... Fights 
the battle of Montconcour, 
and is defeated, ib. Massa- 
cred on St Bartholomew's 
day, 578 
Commerce between France and 
Spain, 723. With Portugal, 
724. Italy, ib, England, ib. 
Holland, 725. Germany, &c. 
ib. Denmark, &c. ib, Ame- 
merica, ib. The Levant and 
Barbary, 726. India and Chi- 
na, ib. West of Africa, ib. 
West Indies and North Ame- 
rica, ib. 
Companies, France delivered 
from them by the policy of 
Charles V. 550 
Condé, Prince of, his character, 
571. Suspected and hated 
by the court, 572. Offers to 
vindicate his honour by sin- 
gle combat, ib. Accused of 
treason by the Duke of Guise 
and Cardinal of Lorraine, 573. 
Tried and condemned, 574. 
Saved by the death of Fran- 
cis, ib, “Asks satisfaction for 
the massacre of Viessy, 575. 
Begins the civil war, ib. De- 
feated and taken prisoner at 
Draix, ib. Enters into trea- 
ty with the court, 576. An- 
ticipates the hostile projects 
of the court, and has recourse 
to arms, ib. Attacked by 
the Constable Montmorency 
at St Denis, and defeated, ib. 
Prosecutes the war vigor- 
ously, and agrees to a Suspen- 
sion of hostilities, ib, ‘ A plot 
against him and Coligny, 
from which they escape, ib. 
Active in preparing for war, 
577. Taken prisoner, and 
killed in cold blood at Jarnac, 
ib. 
Condé, the young Prince of, 
breaks out into open rebel- 
lion, 691. Allows himself to 
be duped, is arrested, and 
thrown into the Bastile, ib. 
Condé the Great, Duke of Eng- 
hien, ee the Spaniards 
at Rocroy, 598. Defeats the 
Bavarians at Nordlingen, ib. 
Excites the jealousy of Car- 
dinal Mazarine, ib. 
to raise the siege of Lerida, 
ib. Arrested, 600. Defeats 
Turenne at St Antoine, ib. 
é pardoned 
employed by Louis XIV. 601. 
His operations in Flanders, 
604. Lays waste the Pala- 
tinate, ib. 
Conference. between the Catho- 
mn and Calvinists at Paissi, 
57 
Copper mines, 689 
Coral fishery of Marseilles, 729 
Corsica annexed to France, 618. 
Its divisions, 677 
Corvées, a tax oppressive to agri- 
culture, 696 
Cote roti, wine called, 714 
Cytton manufactures, seat, &c. 
of the, 721 
Council of Trent, 564 
Court of France extremely de- 
bauched in thereignof Charles 
VI. 55 
Cows of Normandy celebrated 
for milk, 708 
Crespy, treaty of, 562 
Crops, rotation of, 699 
a ae Pr engaged in by Louis 
D 
ry Marquis of, killed, 
D’Ancre, Marchioness, con- 
demned for sorcery, 592 
Dantzic surrenders to the 
French, 648 
Dauphiny, its divisions, 676 
De Thou and Cing Mars exe- 
cuted for a conspiracy, 597 
orca Executive, establish- 
6 
- 
Directory, the, declare war 
against Germany, 639. Sinks 
into contempt, 6 
Doria, Admiral, ungratefully 
treated by Francis I. 560. 
Resents it, ib. Delivers Ge- 
noa, ib. 
Draix, battle of, 575 : 
Dumourier deserts to the Aus- 
trians, 633 
Dunkirk surrenders to Louis 
XIV. 601 
E 
Harths and stones, 688 
Ecclesiastical state of France, 
733 > 
Edict of Nantes, revocation of 
the, 606 
Edward ILI. of England claims 
the throne of France, 549 
Emigrants, debate on the pro- 
perty of the, 667 
English lose most of their pos- 
sessions in France, 550. Ex- 
pelled from France, 551. Ad- 
vance within 11 leagues of 
Paris, but are driven out of 
France, 558 
Epernon, Duke of, enters intoa 
plot with Mary de Medicis, 
9: 
Erfurth, conference at, 649 
Etangs, in Proyence and Upper 
Languedoc, 679 
Executive Directory establish- 
ed, 636 
of France, 727 
Eylau, battle of, 647 
F 
Pairs of France, 728 
erdinand of Spain, his disho- 
nourable conduct to the 
French, 554 : 
Ferdinand of Arragon dies, 557, 
Flax, cultivation aoe 703 
Fleurus, battle of, 607 
Foix, its divisions, 676 
Fontainebleau, assem- 
bly at, 573, . Forest of, 710 
Forces, land, statement of, 735; 
naval, ib. 
Forests, numerous and exter- 
sive, 710, National, ib, 
Fornova, battle of, 553 
France and pe’, 
between, “ytd 
cial distress, 618. Suit or. 
at the accession of Louis 
XVI. 619. Favours the Re- 
volution in America, 620. 
Interferes in the affairs of 
Geneva, 621. Her financial 
embarrassments, 621, 
feres in the affairs of 
land, 622. Alliance between 
the two countries, ib. Com- 
mercial treaty with . 
623. Discontents in, i 
Emigration from, at the com- 
mencement of the Revolu- 
tion, 627. Commotions in 
different parts of, ib, Hos- 
tile pre against her, 
629. clares war against 
the King of Hungary and Bo- 
hemia, G31. Invaded by 
Prussia and Austria, i 
Their progress, 632. Obli- 
ged to retreat, ib. .At war - 
with almost all Europe, eg 
Le: of her enemies, ib. 
hey are at le unsue- 
cessful, ib. — Civi | war in, 
634 Drives out the _— 
in every direction, 635, I 
vades the United Provinces, 
ib. Causes of the establish- 
ment of military despotism, 
645. War between her and 
Prussia in 1806, 647. Its 
boundaries, 673. Extent, 
oo. ie 
