834 Index
Gazette de Leide, 188, 245
Geburtsstand (estate determined by birth), 23,
24
General Court of Massachusetts, 370
Genet, Edmond (Citizen Genet), 421, 481,
562, 570, 571, 751; on critics of France in
the United States, 771; in Holland, 422; in-
volvement of in the United States, 417,
751, 760, 761, 783, 771; legions of, 417; re-
buke of by the French government, 761; in
Russia, 421–22, 440, 480, 760
Geneva, 29–30; annexation of by France
(1798), 666–69; councils of, 94; decline of
the economic system in, 668; democracy in,
29; effect of the French Revolution on, 666;
government of by councils and the four
Syndics, 29. 96; influence of France and
Sardinia on, 83; renown of as a model re-
public, 30; resurgence of the aristocracy in,
272; as a Swiss canton, 669; talented popu-
lation of, 96; unemployment in, 668. See
also Genevese “revolution” (1768)
Genevese “revolution” (1768), 84–89 passim,
123, 270; as a bourgeois revolution, 103;
and conflicts between the Small Council
and the General Council, 103; and the con-
stitution of Geneva, 270, 668; and the eco-
nomic changes occurring in Geneva, 97;
and the Edict of Pacification (the “Black
Code”), 271, 666, 807–8; and elections to
the Syndics and councils, 96, 98, 100; and
the grievances of the Burghers, 97, 101;
resolution of in the Edict of 1768 (the
“Edict of Pistols”), 103; and the Revolu-
tionary Tribunal, 668; role of the Burgher
Représentants and the Guarantors in, 98.
101n24, 270, 325, 666; role of the Natives
(natifs) in, 96, 97, 99, 103–5, 216, 666; role
of the Négatifs in, 98, 99, 101, 103, 270,
271, 666; role of the sujets in, 666, 667, 672;
and the structure of government under the
Act of Mediation (1738), 96, 100–102, 105,
270
Genio democratico, 595
Genoa, 22, 617
Gentz, Friedrich, 140–41, 705, 708, 771,
771n42, 795; characterization of the events
in France as eine Total- Revolution, 708
George III (king of England), 55, 106, 13, 11,
125, 128, 129, 131, 152, 155, 527; assault
on his coach in London, 569; influence of
seen as corruption, 123; personal character-
istics of, 113; view of Americans, 128, 131;
view of German mercenaries, 156; as a
Whig, 114; and William Pitt the Younger,
113
Georgia, 163
Germain, George, 133
German Republican Society, 18
German Rhineland, 7, 421
German romanticism, 700
Germanic Legion, 416
Germany, 7, 12, 59, 180, 569, 692–99; ambigu-
ous idea of revolution in, 685–92; anti-
American feeling in, 186; burghers in, 695;
concept of Weltbürger in, 689, 689n10, 690;
conservatism in, 20, 686, 694; democratic
stirrings in, 690; and the examination of
American government in, 200; free cities
of, 13, 686; geographical divisions in, 684;
high culture of, 640; idea of citizenship in,
689; incapacity in for collective political ac-
tion, 686; liberalism in, 681; national con-
sciousness of, 913n22; nationalism in, 901;
neutralism in, 910; nobility in, 906–7; pas-
sion in for metaphysics in, 688; political
thinking in, 687–88; princely states of, 31,
55; reformists in, 200; revolution in, 12,
616; secret societies in, 627; universities in,
687; unrest of the nobility in Southwestern
Germany, 692–93; view of the French Rev-
olution in, 559
Gerrald, Joseph, deportation of, 729, 724
Geyl, Pieter, 247, 256n25, 261n35, 508, 524
Ghent, 264
Gibbon, Edward, 22, 46, 52
Gifford, John, 539n14
Gioia, Melchior, 577, 596
Giornale patriottico della Corsica (Buonarroti),
583
Giornale repubblicano di Pubblica Istruzione,
605
Girondists, 398, 454–46, 453n8, 678; expul-
sion of from the great provincial cities of
France, 456
Glayre, P. M., 671
God, 397; will of, 238
Godechot, Jacques, 9, 329, 530n28, 594n6,
629; on revolution and the discovery of
America, 329