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French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

 

Websites:

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Much of use here

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18th Century Town and its inhabitants

Travels in France. An intersting account of the state of the French people on the eve of the revolution.

Jean-Marie Roland de la Platiere: The State of the French Economy

Outline of the Revolution

Timeline of the French Revolution:It's a geocities site, but it gives good information in an accessible fromat.

Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 1790.

18th Century Social Order: Peasants and Aristos

Social Classes

Jacques-Louis David. David grew up in Paris before the revolution, and painted one of the most famous portraits of Napoleon.

Jacques-Louis David. Napoleon in His Study.

Petition of the Women of the Third Estate to the King.

Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1789.

The Trial of Olympe de Gouges, 1793-94

Economics of the Revolution. A chart of what people earned and how much it cost to buy enough bread to live.

The Fact and Fiction of the Sans-Culottes movement.

Eyewitness to History: The Execution of Louis XVI

The Jacobins

What is the Third Estate? Robespierre and the Reign of Terror. Good information and very nice reproductions of contemporary documents.

 

Maximilien Robespierre, 1758-1794

Napoleonic Society

Madame de Remusat: Remembrances of Napoleon

The Return of Napoleon from Elba

cartoonThe three estates.Which one is which?

Journal Articles from JSTOR:
       
Note: all sorts of articles are available from ProQuest, JSTOR, and Project Muse--all found on the Library's webpage by clicking 'Online Resources'. ProQuest and JStor are available from home, but Project Muse must be used in school.  These resources take some time to search, but full-texts of articles are always available from JSTOR and Project Muse, and frequently from ProQuest.
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Books:

944.04 Williams, Gwyn A Artisans and Sans Culottes
944.04 Y Yalom, Marilyn Blood sisters: the French Revolution in women's memory. 
944.0 C Chaussinand-Nogaret, Guy.

French Nobility in the 18th Century.

944.04 S Schama, Simon.

Citizens: a chronicle of the French Revolution. 

944.04 L Lefebvre, Georges.

The coming of the French Revolution. 

944.04 K Kennedy, Emmet A cultural history of the French Revolution. 
944.04 H Hibbert, Christopher The days of the French Revolution
940.27 W Walter, Jakob.

The diary of a Napoleonic foot soldier

940.27 B Bruun, Geoffrey

Europe and the French Imperium, 1799-1814. 

940 04 H Hunt, Lynn. 

The Family Romance of the French Revolution. 

914.406 B Bizardel, Yvon.

The first expatriates: Americans in Paris during the French Revolution

944.04 C Cobb, Richard. 

The French and Their Revolution: Selected Writings. 

944.04 B  

The French Revolution. 

944.04 T Thompson, James Matthew.

The French Revolution

944.04 G Gershoy, Leo

The French Revolution and Napoleon, with new annotated bibliography 

362.5 F Forrest, Alan I.

The French Revolution and the poor. 

390 H v.4  

From the fires of revolution to the Great War. 

944 H Herold, J. Christopher The Horizon Book of the Age of Napoleon.
944 J Jordan, David P.

The King's Trial: the French Revolution vs. Louis XVI. 

944.035 C Cronin, Vincent.

Louis and Antoinette. 

F 944 M v.12  

Napoleon, consul et empereur, 1799-1875. Histoire de France illustrée: 2000 ans d'images, v.12. 

944.04 M Mercier, Louis Sebastien

The Picture of Paris: [before and after the Revolution]. 

F 944 M v.9  

La revolution, 1789-1799. Histoire de France illustree: 2000 ans d'images, v. 9 

944.034 F Ford, Franklin L .Robe and Sword; the Regrouping of the French Aristocracy after Louis XIV
944.04 P Palmer, R. R Twelve Who Ruled: the year of the Terror in the French Revolution
301.41 B Boulding, Elise The Underside of History: a View of Women through Time
944.04 C Cobb, Richard

Voices of the French Revolution. 

909 T   Winds of Revolution, TimeFrame AD 1700-1800
944.04 B Bernier, Olivier Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood: the Mob, the Monarch, and the French Revolution. 
940.27 B Bryant, Arthur Sir

The Years of Endurance, 1793-1802. 

 

 

September, 2008