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also Eastern Europe; Europe, and the
American Revolution; Western Europe
Europe, and the American Revolution, 107,
108, 115, 124, 197–98; channels of com-
munication concerning news of the Ameri-
can Revolution, 180–90; country by coun-
try differences in reaction to the American
Revolution, 179–80; and the creation of the
American myth, 178; and the depths of
feeling in Europe concerning the American
Revolution, 190–98; and the periodical
press, 181; and public opinion, 181; reports
concerning the American Revolution from
returned soldiers, 180; role of Masonic
lodges in bringing news to Europe, 180;
and the sense of a new era dawning, 178;
and the use of propaganda, 179
Eustace, John, 418
Examen du gouvernement de l ’Angleterre ( J.
Stevens, Jr.), 211–12
Federalists, 396, 421, 422, 615, 631, 757, 758,
761–77 passim; criticism of democrats, po-
litical clubs, and Republicans by, 763; fall
of, 773; High Federalists, 76, 758, 759, 771,
776; opinion of John Adams, 772; opinion
of Jefferson, 765; view of the propriety of
criticizing government, 767; and the
“XYZ” papers, 766
Feller, François- Xavier de (Abbé Feller), 199,
259–60, 266, 267
Fenno, John, 768
Ferdinand IV (king of Naples), 656, 659
Ferrara, 609, 648, 654
Fersen, Axel de, 184, 300–302, 379, 380, 383,
401, 413, 421, 437, 489, 618–20, 627
feudalism/serfdom, 109, 284, 290, 296, 314,
33, 478, 711, 794; abolishment of in
France, 289, 359, 371, 405, 699; abolish-
ment of in Prussia, 690; “abolition of feu-
dalism” reforms in the Neapolitan Repub-
lic, 630, 659, 660; in the Hapsburg Empire,
298–99n24; in Poland, 438; in Russia, 479–
80
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 7, 16, 392, 616, 684,
687, 701; doctrine of absolute liberty, 73;
pro- French sentiment of, 702–7, 707, 718
Finland, 76, 77, 300
Fitzgerald, Edward, 418
Flanders, 199, 242, 57, 263, 67, 387, 425, 277
Flood, Henry, 219, 229, 276
Flushing, annexation of by the French, 253
Forster, Georg, 694, 708
Fouché, Joseph, 521, 6122; as an extremist of
the Terror, 612
Four Years’ Diet (1788–1792), 291, 307, 309,
315, 317, 438, 445, 477, 483, 484, 671; and
the details of the Statute of the Cities en-
acted by (1791), 319, 320n18
Fourth English War. See American Revolu-
tion
Fox, Charles James, 31, 106, 219, 221, 223,
224, 226, 230, 231, 254, 506, 323, 543, 714,
725, 726
France, 14–16, 19, 20, 22–24, 27, 32–35, 58,
60–63, 254, 257, 447; 1798 industrial ex-
position in the Champ de Mars, 624; affin-
ity among democrats for, 277; and the
American Revolution, 138–39, 142; the
aristocrat revolt (révolte nobiliaire) in, 341;
army of, 322; as the center of the European
Enlightenment, 327; complexities of the
electoral process in, 354; constitutional de-
cisions made in, 212; creation of the no-
blesse militaire in, 57; democratic ease of
rising to the aristocracy in, 55; elections in,
329, 352, 367, 405, 406; First Estate of, 33;
foreign aid provided by to Sweden, 75; as
the Great Nation (Grande Nation), 617;
identification of the bourgeois with the ar-
istocracy, 62–63; insistence of putting
French interests first, 625; invasion of the
Austrian Netherlands by, 269; invasion of
Egypt, 502, 526; July 27, 1798, procession
in Paris honoring Liberty, 624; liberty and
the aristocracy in, 46; military aid to
America during the American Revolution,
155; non- noble officers in the French army,
342, 342n15; occupation of Holland by,
453, 513, 629; offensives of in the Pyre-
nees, the Italian Riviera, Belgium, and the
Rhineland, 505–6; peasants in, 257, 289
296; philosophes of, 4, 65, 80, 88, 187, 233,
238, 282, 315, 330, 333, 334, 336, 478, 541,
560, 561; policy of toward Belgium, 394,
395, 414, 417; population of the nobility
and bourgeois in, 327; possible invasion of
Ireland by during the American Revolu-
tion, 255; principal district assemblies (bail-
liages) of, 353; propaganda in, 413, 414n19;