Index 829
Declaratory Act (1766), 123, 219
Decretum of the Peasants, 295–96
Défense des émigrés addressee au people français
(Lally- Tollendal), 543
Defense of the Constitutions of the United States
( J. Adams), 201, 204, 768; primary argu-
ments of, 204–6, 325n34
Delacroix, Charles, 521–26, 529, 569–76; de-
fense of the military usefulness of the
Dutch, 529; promotion of une heureuse rev-
olution in the United States by, 571; and
revolution in Italy, 573–78, 575–76n22
d’Houdetot, Mme., 187
Delaware, 144
Delft, 512
Delolme, Jean- Louis, 46, 84, 102, 109–10,
127, 136, 169, 204–7, 210, 211, 29, 300; on
the British Constitution, 108–11, 204
Demeunier, J. N., 188
democracy, 6, 13, 29 32, 47, 110, 143, 248n9,
249, 251, 746, 750; Absolute Democracy,
101, 105; and the American Revolution,
148–55; “democratic” versus “aristocratic”
forms of society, 379; Dutch democracy at
its height, 522–27; failure of democratic
movements, 248–49; and the French Di-
rectory, 544–54 passim, 547n5; Jefferso-
nian democracy, 175; locus classicus of in
the French Revolution, 15; “pure” democ-
racy, 14, 110; representative democracy,
16; Rousseau’s definition of, 93; “totalitar-
ian democracy,” 12; “true democracy,” 460;
use of the term “democracy” in Switzer-
land and Italy, 23. See also Christianity,
and democracy; United States, democracy
in
Democratic Society of Pennsylvania, 18
democrat(s), 8, 198, 205, 438, 467, 777, 776,
785–87, 791, 799; in Austria, 426; Belgian
democrats, 265, 267–69, 292, 325, 427–29,
432–34, 440, 444, 447, 453, 463; derivation
of the term “democrat,” 14–15; disrepute of
the term “democrat” in England and Scot-
land, 17; Dutch democrats, 522–26,
521n29, 565, 570; other terms for, 15
Denmark, 76, 281
Denmark- Norway, estate of, 27, 76
d’Eril, Melzi, 292, 654
Descorches, Marie- Louis, 440
Desmoulins, Camille, 15, 307, 322, 358, 372
despotism, 14, 41, 45, 47, 440; enlightened
despotism, 227, 259; enlightened despotism
of Joseph II, 281–89; equalitarian despo-
tism, 129; heredity nobility as a bulwark
against, 47; limitations of enlightened des-
potism, 280–81; “ministerial despotism,”
125–26
Deutscher Merkur, 195
Diderot, Denis, 88
Diet of Grodno, 445
Diet of Moravia, 297
Dillon, Arthur, 418, 469
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (Rousseau),
86
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality among
Men (Rousseau), 87, 90
Disraeli, Benjamin, on the “Venetian oligar-
chy,” 600
Dissertation on the Feudal and Canon Law ( J.
Adams), 120
D’Ivernois, Francis, 84, 97n20, 98, 99, 105, 272
Dohm, Christian, 195
Dolfin, Daniel, 400
Dorsch, A. J., 694, 696
Douai, Merlin de, 524, 565, 643, 674, 777,
786
Dowdeswell, William, 134
Droz, Jacques, 696, 700–702, 701n38; on Ger-
man republicans, 696n27
Duane, William, emigration of to America,
719
Dublin, 189; cosmopolitan nature of, 116
Dubois, W. E. B., 472
Dubois- Crance, Edmund Louis Alexis, 15
Duke of Aiguillon, 70
Duke of Arenberg, 258, 263, 266
Duke of Brabant, 256
Duke of Braschi, 649
Duke of Brunswick, 254, 402, 405
Duke of Fitz- James, 69, 70
Duke of Gloucester, 733
Duke of Newcastle, 113, 114
Duke of Orleans. See Philippe Egalité (the ci-
devant Duke of Orleans)
Duke of Parma, 576
Duke of Portland, 726
Duke of Saint- Simon, 43, 58
Duke of York, 790
Dumbrowsky, J. H., 572
Dumesnil, Louis, 69