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index
Fox, Charles James, 161, 213, 213–14,
214–15, 215, 226
Fox, General Henry Edward, 226–7
Foy, General Maximilien, 520
franc, value defi ned, 143
Français de Nantes, 159, 381
France: administrative districts and
organisation, 128–9, 157; alliance with
Russia, 230–3, 243–4, 246–7, 257, 296;
allies, 35–6; anti-clericalism, 34–5;
balance of trade, 339–40; bank
investments, 350–1; banking crisis
(1804–5), 197, 198–201; blockade of
England, 38–41, 140; bread prices rise,
107, 115–16; brigands, beggars and
vagabonds, 112, 116, 406; bullion, 485;
casualties, 31–2; Catholic revival in,
16–17; coalitions oppose, 10;
compulsory military service (levée en
masse) and training, 32; and conditions
of second Treaty of Paris (1815), 545;
conquers Italy, 46; Constitution (1792),
34, 51, 53; Constitution (1795), 6;
Constitution (1799), 63–4, 101, 105,
114; Constitution (1801; senatus
consultum), 125, 212; Constitution
(1804), 156; Constitution overthrown in
Napoleon’s Life Consulate, 125–6;
currency, 143, 485; driven from Levant,
46; economic development, 40;
economic effect of war, 153–4;
economic war against England, 29;
effect of blockade in, 335–41, 453–4;
Empire, 371–2, 409, 416; and European
disunity, 24–5; fi nances and national
economy, 381–5; fi nancial diffi culties
and organisation, 71–3, 115–16, 143,
159–60; fi nancial reforms (1806), 206;
foreign trade increase, 146; German
Romantics’ hostility to, 267, 269; grain
exports, 142–3, 198, 349, 356; grain
imported, 116; harvests, 114, 115–16,
404, 406–7; imports from Britain, 38;
in Indochina, 48; infl uence in Europe,
6–7, 9–10; intellectual life, 467; internal
revolts, 34; invasion by Allies and
campaign in, 520–1, 525–8; loss of
colonial trade, 39; manufacturing
industry, 335–6, 487; and maritime
trade, 38; merchant fl eet, 31; move to
dictatorship, 53–5; national
consciousness, 20–1; natural
boundaries and territorial claims, 24,
31, 51, 140, 371; naval strength, 159,
246, 308; occultism in, 19; opens
colonies to neutral shipping, 37–8;
popular reaction against Napoleon,
526–7; position of clergy, 34; as
potential market for British trade, 142;
provisional government (Consulate,
1799), 63–8, 71–3; rationalism in, 5,
18–19; regains lost colonies, 147;
renewed war with Britain (1804–5), 154,
161–5; resumes trade with Britain, 358;
Romanticism in, 19; rural economy,
40–1; sells Louisiana to United States,
146; ship losses, 307; social divisions,
36; social policy, 130–8, 398–408;
supports Persia, 229; taxation
centralised, 71, 74; and vassal states,
101–6, 371; war fi nancing, 32–3, see also
Grand Empire
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, 462
Francis II, emperor of Austria: and
Archduke Charles’s resignation, 177;
character, 25; dismisses Cobenzl and
Colloredo, 206; ministerial changes,
279; Napoleon negotiates peace with
(1800), 87–8; and Napoleon’s
campaign of 1805, 202, 204; and
Napoleon’s marriage to Marie-Louise,
299; negotiates for peace (1813), 514;
opposes Russian ambitions, 27;
refuses concessions to Hungary, 21;
retains feudal dues, 9; rule, 175;
supports war against Napoleon, 281,
295; and title of emperor, 177, 208
Frankfurt, 207, 301, 337, 344, 436–8; trade
fair, 450
Frederick I, king of Württemberg, 207
Frederick II, grand duke (and elector) of
Württemberg, 27, 441, 442
Frederick II (the Great), king of Prussia,
193, 195, 381, 383
Frederick VI, king of Denmark, 367
Frederick, king of Saxony, 220, 231, 444,
509, 513, 516, 536
Frederick William II, king of Prussia, 9
Frederick William III, king of Prussia:
accepts vassalage after defeat, 220–1;
and Alexander I’s peace with
Napoleon, 230; and army reforms,
458–9; autocracy, 278; and campaign
of 1809, 290–1, 292; capitulates to