Gilded
Youth of Thermidor by François Gendron
Montreal: Queen's University Press, 1993
[Unpublished index. Used with permission of McGill-Queen’s University
Press]
In the period covered in this work, the names of Catholic
saints had been removed from the designations of streets, faubourgs,
etc. The rue Saint-Honoré, for example, had become rue Honoré and is
indexed under “Honoré.” Elsewhere, as in names, the “Saint” designation
was retained and is alphabetized under “Saint.”
GYT stands for “gilded youth” or “gilded youth of Thermidor”
throughout.
L’Abréviateur universel
(anon. pamphlet), 35–36, 72
L’Accusateur public
(Richer-Sérizy), 19, 181
Adresse des jeunes
citoyens à leurs frères, les ouvriers de tous les âges
(anon. pamphlet), 104–6
After Robespierre: The
Thermidorian Reaction (Mathiez), 15
L’Agonie des Jacobins
(anon. pamphlet), 16
Aiguillon, Duc d’, 34
Albitte (deputy), 81
Amar, André, 16, 115, 118
Ambigu Comique, 72, 74–75
L’Ami des citoyens
(Tallien), 18, 64
L’Ami des lois
(anon. play), 69–76
L’Ami du peuple
(Lebois), 11, 52, 57, 69, 91
L’Ami du Roi
(Ladevèze), 181
Amis de la Patrie Section
law enforcement
demanded by, 26
National Guard reorganization
announced in, 122
Prairial repression in, 161–62
prisoners’ release demanded
by, 6
representatives attending
Théâtre Français assembly, 192
amnesty, 45, 169–71, 182, 200. See also army; conscription;
conscripts (absentee); deserters; military service
anarchy, 164
Ancien Régime, 125, 173.
See also Monarchy
Anglaises prison, 6
Les Anneaux de la queue
(anon. pamphlet), 16
Antoine (rue), 151, 155
Antonelle (commentator), 53
Apologie de la
Saint-Barthélémy (anon. pamphlet), 17
Arcis Section, 139, 161, 196
aristocrats
disturbances created by, 6
GYT as, 91, 165–66
mistrust of, 10
patriots and, 8–9
public opinion won by, 18
released from prison, 8
Armonville (deputy), 77–81, 144
Arms and Powder Commission, 48, 133, 146
arms workshops, 46–49, 89, 121, 208
army. See also amnesty; conscription; conscripts (absentee); deserters;
military service
called to action, 122–23, 165
communes slandered by, 186
Convention and, 127, 172, 183
fraternization with sans-culottes, 158
GYT and, 127, 166, 182
as Jacobin stronghold, 183
lower classes and, 122–23
“La Marseillaise” played in, 176
Prairial insurrection and, 127–28, 144, 147, 153, 158
recall demanded, 184
reporting to the Committees, 25
Revolutionary, 38
sections soliciting, 184–85
Vendémiaire insurrection and, 195, 201
youth serving in, 175
Arras, 177–78
arrondissement watch committees, 66, 117, 159
Arsenal, 154–55
Arsenal Section
agitation in, 186
famine in, 119
Prairial repression in, 163
representatives attending Théâtre Français assembly, 192
terrorists’ punishment demanded by, 94–95
workshop of, 103
Artois, Comte d’, 33, 183. See also Royal Army of Artois
assemblies (décadi), 202
assemblies (primary)
Constitution, voting on, 180, 187
GYT and, 38, 190, 197–98
leaders of allowed to escape, 199
opening of, 185–86
pamphlets regarding, 180
permanence in, 159, 186
Assembly. See National Convention (governing body)
assignats, 41, 171, 194
Aubry (deputy), 143, 144, 147, 182, 195
Audinot (theater director), 72–74
Audouin, François-Xavier, 8, 11–12
Augereau (militant), 204
Auguis (deputy), 111, 133, 135, 143
Auvrest (former tribunal juror), 137
Aux jeunes gens (anon.pamphlet), 191
Aventures de chevalier de Faublas (Louvet de Couvray), 174
Babeuf, Gracchus
arrest of, 55, 65, 75
on Fréron’s article, 51, 52
Germain as lieutenant of, 177–78
on GYT, 52, 207
hostility toward revolutionary government, 28
on salon conspiracies, 32
Tallien accused by, 32
Vendée and, 21, 55
Bacq (rue de), 37, 116
bals des victimes, 32, 121
Bara, Joseph, 65
Baralère. See Jollivet (Baralère)
Barbat (Invalides section commander), 117
Barbot (citizen), 128
Bardet, Pierre, xiii
Barère, Bertrand. See also four ringleaders
arrest of, 83–89
caricature of, 20
denounced, 44–45
deportation of, 115, 117–18
indictment demanded, 109
Louvet de Couvray’s attack on, 175
pamphlets against, 16, 18, 45
prisoners’ release requested by, 7
on riot causes, 112
Robespierre denounced by, 45
sympathy for, 100
as terrorist, 19
Thermidorians led by, 5–6
trial of, 206
Barras, Jean Nicolas
Cabarrus and, 34
Dargeavelle recommended to, 143
GYT and, 133, 196–97, 207
Martainville rebuked by, 166
military courts established by, 199
restraint of, 198
royalism rejected by, 50
on sans-culottes mobilization, 193
Convention forces commanded by, 195–96
Thermidor and, 195
Thermidorians led by, 9
Barré (theater director), 76–77
barricades, 150–51
Barrière du Trône, 31, 103–4, 149–50
Bassal, Father, 81
Bastille, 157
Bastille (Place de la), 10
Bataillon sacré des patriotes de 1789, 45, 193, 201–2
battues, 105
Baudot, Marc-Antoine, 6–7
Beaubourg (rue de), 90
Beaudin (deputy), 192
Beaulieu, C.-F.
agitation of, iinButte
des Moulins Section, 186
on Convention clearing, 114
on Fréronists’ meetings, 18–19
on GYT, 14, 207
on Jacobin women’s punishment, 27
Beaumarchais, Pierre
Augustin Caron de, 155
Bentabolle (deputy),
33, 189
Bergoein (deputy),
135, 155
Bernard de Saintes
(deputy), 7
Berruyer, General,
193, 198
Bertin (GYT activist),
186
Besançon, Alain, ix
Billaud-Varenne,
Jacques Nicolas. See also four ringleaders
arrest of, 83–89
caricature of, 20
compromise of, attempted, 45
counter-revolution defined by, 32
deportation of, 115, 117–18
Fréron threatened by, 15
indictment demanded, 109
Jacobins challenged by, 37–38
Lecointre’s denunciation of, 44
pamphlets against, 18
sympathy for, 100
Tallien threatened by, 15
as terrorist, 19, 24
billets de garde, 189
Bloch, Marc, xiii
Blum, Léon, xiii
Bô (deputy), 13
Bois de Boulogne, 31,
111
Boissy d’Anglas,
François Antoine (Boissy Famine), 85, 91–92, 110–11
Bonaparte, Napoleon,
195, 196, 199, 207
Bon Conseil battalion,
113
Bon Conseil Section,
86, 115, 161–62
Bondy Section, 97
Le Bonhomme Richard
(journal), 182
Bonne Nouvelle
Section, 77, 113, 192
Bonnet de la Liberté
Section, 8, 113
Bordas (deputy), 198
Bosio (artist), 11
Bouin (Little Father Gérard), 65
Bourbon-Villeneuve
(rue), 106–7, 161–62
Bourbotte (deputy),
132, 163
Bourdon, François
Louis (Bourdon de l’Oise)
bribes accepted by, 7
Germinal riots and, 112
GYT defended by, 85
hawking restraint urged by, 22
poster campaign
against, 92
Bourdon, Léonard
(Bourdon de La Crosnière)
arrest of, 115, 117, 118
attacks on GYT urged by, 74
Convention addressed by, 77–78
insulted by GYT, 81
bourgeoisie. See also honnêtes gens
battle avoided by, 196
confidence of, 164
Convention and, 159, 172, 178–80, 207
decadence of, 30
disarming of, 183
government not supported by, 5, 12
GYT among, 178
GYT as leaders of, 191
GYT as representatives of, xi
GYT no longer followed by, 101
GYT not threatened by, 89
GYT supported by, 14
GYT support not unanimous among, 80–81
insurrection feared by, 156
Jacobin Club closure and, 30
Le Peletier Section and, 186–87, 189
lower classes and, viii, 84, 125
National Guard and, 122, 183
poverty among, 171
Prairial victory celebrated by, 158
reaction of, 164–204
rearming of, 159
sans-culottes and, 102, 178–80
solidarity of, 148
standards of, 36
Terror and, 159
Vendémiaire insurrection and, 159, 198, 200, 205–7
Bourse, 167
Bouverot (deputy), 17
bread
demands for, 106, 111, 123, 130, 152
lack of, 172
quality of, 89
rationing of, 89, 91–92, 121
uniformity demanded, 132
Bread and the Constitution of ’93 (slogan), 127, 139–40
Brionne (Hôtel de),
126, 127, 133, 138, 207
Brocquin, Jean-Louis,
21
Brousse des Faucherets
(GYT activist), 186
Brutus, 65. See also Father Jean (Brutus)
Brutus battalion, 138
Brutus Section
agitation in, 186
Eigasse as president, 108–9
GYT and, 146, 190–91
rebellion of, 193
representatives
attending Théâtre Français assembly, 192
terrorists denounced in, 39
Bry, Jean de, 175–76
bureaux d’esprit, 33
Burgurieux
(insurgent), 195
Butte des Moulins
battalion, 138, 140–41, 147
Butte des Moulins
Civil Committee, 96, 168
Butte des Moulins
police commission, 190
Butte des Moulins
Section. See also Montagne Section
agitation in, 186
Convention and, 50, 127, 134–35, 189
escort provided by, 118
GYT and, 97, 109, 146, 188
Jacobin Club closure and, 28
Larivière attacked in, 128–29
Louvet de Couvray and, 175
Marat’s bust overturned in, 65
Merlin de Thionville’s rallying of, 114
military courts established in, 199
rebellion of, 193
representatives
attending Théâtre Français assembly, 192
residents disarmed in, 199
violence of, rumored, 136