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Gale World History in Context: French Revolution

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Gale World History in Context: French Revolution

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The French Revolution (1789-1799) was a period of political reform and violence. The events of the revolution had an impact not only in France but around the globe as well. It marked the widespread shift from monarchies to republican and democratic governments that began during the late 18th century.

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Infobase eBooks: The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon

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Fordham University French Revolution Internet History Sourcebook

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Fordham University French Revolution Internet History Sourcebook

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NOTES: Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the

French Revolution

See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections.
The French Revolution

WEB Livre des sources médiévales
Contains considerable materialin French on the Ancien Regime and the Revolution.

WEB French Revolution Links [At Portsmouth]

Lead-Up

Marie Antoinette: Letter to Her Mother, 1773 [At this Site]

Madame Campan: Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, 1818 [At this Site]

Arthur Young (1741-1820): Travels During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789 [At Then Again]

Arthur Young (1741-1820): Travels in France, 1792. excerpts [At Hanover]

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781): Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth by M. Turgot, Comptroller General of the Finances of France, In 1774, 1775 and 1776. or in French [At McMaster]

Cahier of 1789: The Clergy of Blois and Romorantin [At Hanover]

Cahiers of 1789: The Nobility of Blois [At Hanover]

Cahiers of 1789: The Third Estate of Versailles [At Hanover]

Cahiers of 1789: The Third Estate of Carcassonne [At Hanover]

Cahier of the Third Estate of Dourdan, March 29, 1789 [At History Guide]

Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière: The State of the French Economy, 1789 [At this Site]

Liberal Revolution

Radical Revolution

Documents of the National Convention, c. 1792 [At Hanover]

Proclamation of the Duke of Brunswick, 1792 [At Hanover]
The threat that lead to the onset of the French Revolutionary wars.

Ça Ira [At this Site]
The most popular of the revolutionary songs

The Marseillaise [At this Site]

The Leveé en Masse, August 23, 1793 [At this Site]

The Doctrine of Graccus Babeufh, 1795 [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]

Conversion of French revolutionary and Common Era Dates [At gefrance]

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): The Death of Marie Antoinette [At this Site]

St. Just (d.1794): Republican Institutes [At Hanover]

Maximilian Robespierre (1758-94): On the Festival of the Supreme Being,, 1794 [At this Site]

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94): On the Principles of Political Morality, 1794, excerpts [At this Site]

Maximilian Robespierre (1758-94): Terror and Virtue, 1794 [At this Site]
RG Reading Guide

2ND Gwynne Lewis: The People and the French Revolution [At Internet Archive, from Warwick]

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Responses to Revolution

Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1791, excerpts [At this Site]

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1791, short excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1791, moderate length excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Baylor]

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1791, extended excerpts [At this Site]

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on The Revolution in France [At ArtBin][Full Text]

Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Rights of Man 1792 [At Yale]
A response to Edmund Burke.

Thomas Paine(1737-1809): The Rights of Man, 1791-1792 [At American Revolution]

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Napoleon I Bonaparte(1769-1821)
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Napoleonic Wars
Back to Index New Additions page.. The date of inception was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.

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NOTES: Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the French Revolution See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections. The French Revolution WEB Livre des sources médiévales Contains considerable materialin French on the Ancien Regime and the Revolution.

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LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

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LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

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What You Can Find at This Site

Do you need documents for a paper? Or images to illustrate greater understanding of critical decisions? Would you like a general introduction to the exciting events of the French Revolution? Or are you looking for inspiration? You can find any of these and so much more because this site includes 250 images, 350 text documents, 13 songs, 13 maps, a timeline, and a glossary as well as 12 topical essays.

Browse the collection

Making sense of events

For a deeper, contextual understanding of the French Revolution as a whole, this site provides a series of essays and links to external resources that cover all the main developments from 1787-1815. Alongside summaries of the revolution's major periods, the essays also include more in-depth explorations of subjects ranging from women's history to the complicated relationship between revolutionary ideals and slavery that was practiced in the French colonies.

Explore the essays

Do you want to study the connections between media in a period of upheaval? Or look at how a set of documents, visual prints, or songs represents and even reshapes the political debates of the time? The materials you need can be found here to study the relationships between different media as well as those between the media and the events depicted.

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Do you need documents for a paper? Or images to illustrate greater understanding of critical decisions? Would you like a general introduction to the exciting events of the French Revolution? Or are you looking for inspiration?

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EuroDocs > History of France: Primary Documents > 1789 - 1871

Years Preceding Revolution (1789)

Provided by the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University.

Three major digital document collections:

(18th to 19th centuries; facsimiles)

Read about the project here.

Browse by topic.

(June 1788 - December 1804; French facsimiles)

Revolutionary France (1789-1799)

Browse facsimiles

Browse transcriptions

(1789-1795; French facsimiles and transcriptions)

History presented through photographic and artistic images.

Database with thematic and chronological searches possible.

(1789-1939; facsimile images)

Constitutional variants reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.

To access, click on "Consulter la base."

(1789 to present; photo facsimiles)

A digital version of key research resources of the French Revolution.

Major portions include parliamentary archives and images of the revolution.

A collaboration between Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

(1789-1794; searchable and browseable database of documents [facsimiles and transcriptions] and pictorial images)

Contains over 600 documents about events leading up to, during, and after the revolution.

Browse English translations of the documents.

A joint project of George Mason University and City University of New York.

(1789-1796; image facsimiles, maps, timeline, English translations)

A project of the Center for History & New Media, George Mason University and the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles for the American Historical Review.

Contains 42 images from the French Revolution, along with commentary essays and scholarly debates.

(1789-1793; facsimile images, essays)

Cahiers of 1789 (Cahiers de doléances)

Compilation of grievances of the three estates of France ordered by Louis XVI.

Criticize government waste, indirect taxes, church taxes, corruption, and aristocracy hunting rights.

Meant as suggestions for reform.

Cahier of Clergy of Blois and Romorantin

Cahier of Nobility of Blois

Cahier of Third Estate of Versailles

Cahier of Third Estate of Carcassonne

From Hanover Historical Texts Collection.

(1789; English translation)

(1789; transcription of French original)

Collection of 1,400 prints from British and European publications.

From the period of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

(1789-1815; facsimile images)

Considered with other forms of military memorabilia, satiric prints serve as a reminder that printed images were effectively used as a weapon of sorts. As such, satires made in Britain and continental Europe that depict Napoleon as a diminutive brat combat Napoleon's self-constructed imperial image as a powerful god-like ruler.

A rich collection of satires and caricature images of Napoleon.

From the Center for Digitial Initiatives, Brown University.

(ca 1793-1815; English, French and German facsimiles)

"Republican Institutions," by St. Just, an ally of Robespierre.

English excerpts from Hanover Historical Texts Collection.

(1793-1794; French transcription, English translation)

A growing digital collection of monographs, serials, maps, prints, and manuscripts on the Napoleonic era.

Browse or search modes are available.

(Facsimiles and transcriptions)

Speech by Maximilien Robespierre justifying extreme measures in the French Revolution. Also available in French.

See also Justification of the Use of Terror

and On the Principles of Political Morality

(February 5, 1794; English translation)

Napoleonic France (1799-1815)

Volume I includes the French Revolution.

Part of the Carlyle Letters Online, assembled by Duke University Press.

(1812-1857; database of searchable English transcriptions)

EyeWitness to History - Napoleon

Firsthand accounts of historic events

The Battle of Waterloo

Napoleon Exiled to St. Helena

In cooperation with EyeWitness to History

(1815; English transcription)

A masterful and growing collection of online documents with search engine from the Fondation Napoléon.

(French language transcriptions)

Bourbon Restoration & July Monarchy (1814-1848)

The Second Empire & Second Republic (1848-1871)

Treaty ending the Crimean War.

Agreement between Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey about peace, borders, war prisoners, and trade between countries.

Includes agreements about Black Sea and Danube use as well as territorial changes.

Modern Russian translation also available here.

(30 March 1856; Old Russian transcription; modern Russian translation)

Contains the names of Intendants and periods of incumbency in different intendances (French provinces).

From the University of Wisconsin.

Free registration required.

(1661-1790; data files)

Part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.

Especially notable for images of the rebuilding of Paris under Emperor Napoleon III.

(ca. 1855-1870; dual stereoscopic facsimile images)

Online access to around 5 million images, genealogical and iconographic documents, mostly from the 19th century.

Browse through two types of sources in the digital archives:

Public records of the Plans parcellaires (cadastral maps) of Paris.

(19th century; images and documents)

Other Collections

The Roubaix Digital Library in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais aims to concentrate all the local primary sources for the history of the city in one digital library.

Browse by theme or collection

(15th to 20th centuries; Facsimiles, pictures and descriptions)

Click on "Inventory" then on "Correspondence and Autographs" for large collection of letters of the Napoleonic era.

Part of Brown University's digital collection hosted at RIAMCO: Rhode Island Archival & Manuscript Collections Online and Brown University Library Center for Digital Initiatives.

(1651-1913, mostly 1789-1821; facsimiles)

Scores of contemporary texts, browsable by author, by date or by topic.

A digital archive of Stanford University Libraries.

(1716-1897; scalable French-language facsimile texts)

Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals of relevance to French national and regional history.

Available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers".

Digital library of Criminocorpus, Le portail sur l'histoire de la justice, des crimes et des peines.

Focuses on the history of crime in France.

Browse or perform an advanced search here.

(18th to 20th centuries; manuscripts and transcriptions, English and French interfaces)

EuroDocs > History of France: Primary Documents > 1789 - 1871

EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Librarian,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Feel free to get in touch: Hacken @ byu.edu

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EuroDocs > History of France: Primary Documents > 1789 - 1871 Provided by the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University. Three major digital document collections: (18th to 19th centuries; facsimiles) Read about the project here. Browse by topic.

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Ball State University: French Revolution Pamphlets

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Ball State University: French Revolution Pamphlets