Index. , 
740 
Q 
worm Queen of France executed, 635 
Retz, Cardinal de, his character, 
599 
Revenue and expenditure’of the 
government, 734 
Revolution of France, causes of 
the, 642, Character of its 
first movers, 644. Effects of 
struction of the Protestants, 
ib. Cabals formed against 
him, which he ‘defeats, ih. 
and finally reduces them, 594. 
His plans to humble Austria, 
ib. His numerous and ac- 
tive exertions, 595. Brings 
Bingent plants, 693 
Rivers of France, 678 
Rivoli, battle of, 638 
_ Rousillon, its divisions, 676 
Rouvenis, battle of, 547 
Pay abolished in France, 
Russia, the Emperor of, pre- 
FRANCE. 
oare for war with France, 
6 
Russians, their mode of resist- 
ing Bonaparte’s forces, 653 
Rye, cultivation of, 700 
Ryswick, pe ws 608 
Saffron, cultivation of, 704 « 
Sainfoin, cultivation of, 702 
St Bartholomew, massacre of, 
578. Gives joy to the Pope 
and the King of Spain, ib. 
Occasions gloom at the court 
of England, ib, 
St Germain en Laye, treaty of, 
577 f 
St Gobin’s, glass manufactory 
of, 718 
St Jean de Luz, battle of, 659 
St Quintin besieged by the Spa+ 
niards, 568. Battle of, ib. 
Taken, ib. ’ 
St Sebastian, fall of, 659 
Saintonge, its divisions, 676 
Salamanca, battle of, 652 
Salic law enforced, 549 
Salins, salt springs at, 691 
Salt, common, 691 
Saone, the river, 679 
Sardines, fishery of, on the coast 
of Brittany, 728 
Savoy, Duke of, makes war on 
France, 587. Unsupported, 
and obliged to make peace, 
ib. Attempts to seize Man- 
tua, and is unsuccessful, 591 
Sea-coast of France, 679 
Sea-salt, 691 
Sedan, manufacture of fine cloth 
at, 717 
Seine, the river, 678. The ba- 
sin of the, 685. 
Sforza surrenders himself to 
Francis I. 557 
Sheep, breed, &ec. of, 708. E- 
migration of, 709 
Shepherds of France, account 
of the, 709. Their dogs, ib. 
Shipping, the, of France at dif- 
ferent periods, 72% 
Silver mines, 689 
Smolensk, battle of, 654 
Soil of France, 680. Divided 
into five classes as to fertili- 
ty, 700 
Spain, competitors for the throne 
of, 608, Attacked by Bo- 
naparte, 648 
Spaniards invade France, 597 
Spaniards and French enter in- 
-- <a treaty of the Pyrenees, 
ame grass grows abundantly, 
Spurry, cultivation of, 702 
besieged and 
by Louis XIV. 606 
Sumach, cultivation of, 704 
Suwarrow, his successes 
the French in Italy, 639 
Sweden, operationsoftheFrench 
against, 648. Convention be- 
tween them, ib. 
Swiss, the, defeated by Francis 
I. 556. Guard of, massa- 
cred by the mob at Paris, 632 
Switzerland, its independence 
overthrown by republican 
. France, 639 
Sully, Duke of, his character, 
585. Called into office by 
Henry, ib. His mode of pro- 
cedure, ib. Good effects re- 
sulting from it, 586. His 
freedom with the King, ib. 
- Retires ‘to his estates after 
the King's ae: 590 
Tapestry, manufacture of the 
Gobelines, 718 
Taxes of France diminished by 
‘Louis XII. 556. Before the . 
Revolution, 733. Since do. 
734 
Teasels, cultivation of, 704 
Las oo 9 of France, 684 
‘enures of landed property be- 
fore the Revolution, 695 
Thionville .capitulates to the 
Duke of Guise, 569 
Thrashing, mode, &e. of, 704 
Tilsit, peace of, 648 
Tithes abolished by the Na- 
tional Assembly, 628 
Tobacco, cultivation of, 703 
Toulouse, battle of, 662 
Tourraine, its divisions, 675 
Trade, coasting and inland trade 
of France, 727 
Treaty between France and 
Spain in 1503, 554 
Turgot placed at the head of 
the French finances, 619. Re- 
signs, ibs 
Turenne defeated’ by Condé at 
St Antoine, 600. His ex-. 
ploits in Alsace, 604. His 
death, 
ib, 
Turnips, cultivation of, 701 
Turnsol, cultivation of, 704 
Valois, direct line of the house 
of, ends in Charles VIII. 554 
555° : : 
Vent de Bise, account of the, 
Wax, produce, &c. of, 710 . 
Weights and measures, 735 
naparte at Waterloo, 671 
— peace of, in 1648, 
Whale fishery, 728 
Wheat, cultivation of, 700 — 
William of ‘concludes 
Woollen manufacture, 
condition, &e. of the, 719 
Sune 
Zinc found in three states, 689 
Zoology of France, 694 
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