French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Websites:

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Much of use here

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.

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

The 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.
Note: When using JStor from home, use http://www.jstor.com/logon/ and the passwords brynmawr and 1jstorbm

• The Economic and Social Origins of the French RevolutionHenri See The Economic History Review, Vol. 3, No. 1. (Jan., 1931), pp. 1-15.

• The Denial of Social Conflict in the French Revolution: Discourses around the Champ de Mars Massacre, 17 July 1791 David Andress French Historical Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2. (Spring, 1999), pp. 183-209.

• Women Workers, State-Sponsored Work, and the Right to Subsistence During the French Revolution Lisa DiCaprio The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 71, No. 3. (Sep., 1999), pp. 519-551.

• Feudalism and the French Revolution (in Historiography) Thomas E. Kaiser The History Teacher, Vol. 12, No. 2. (Feb., 1979), pp. 203-216.

• Public Virtue and Public Women: Prostitution in Revolutionary Paris, 1793-1794 Susan P. Conner Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2. (Winter, 1994-1995), pp. 221-240.

• The Peasant in the French Revolution Louis Gottschalk Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4. (Dec., 1933), pp. 589-599.

• The Theory and Practice of Denunciation in the French Revolution Colin Lucas The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 68, No. 4, Practices of Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989. (Dec., 1996), pp. 768-785.

• Politics and Urban Provisioning Crises: Bakers, Police, and Parlements in France, 1750-1793 Judith A. Miller The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 64, No. 2. (Jun., 1992), pp. 227-262.

• Napoleon and General Dumas Valerie Parks Brown The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 61, No. 2. (Apr., 1976), pp. 188-199.

• Prices, Wages and Popular Movements in Paris during the French Revolution George E. Rude The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 6, No. 3. (1954), pp. 246-267
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