French revolution

French Revolution

Contents

• The French Revolution
  • Lead Up
  • Liberal Revolution
  • Radical Revolution
• Responses to Revolution
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Wars

The French Revolution

• WEB Livre des sources médiévales 
  Contains considerable material in French on the Ancien Regime and the Revolution.
• WEB French Revolution Links [At Portsmouth]
• SUMMARY: The French Revolution
• 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
  • French Revolutionary Pamphlets, 1789-91 [At Emory]
  • Abbé Sieyes: What is the Third Estate? [At this Site] 
    RG Reading Guide - Early French Revolution
  • The Tennis Court Oath, June 20, 1789 [At Clinch Valley College]
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man, 26 August, 1789 [At Yale]
  • Déclaration des Droits de l'homme et du citoyen , 26 August, 1789 [At Conseil Constitutionnel][In French]
  • Decree Abolishing Feudalism, 1789 [At Hanover]
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 1790 [At Hanover]
• 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]

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]

Napoleon I Bonaparte(1769-1821)

• WEB The Napoleonic Library [At Internet Archive]
• WEB Napoleon.org
• WEB Ships of the Royal Navy During the Napoleonic Wars
• The Imperial Catechism, 1806 [At this Site] 
  What Catholic children were to think of Napoleon.
• Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821): Farewell to the Old Guard, 1814 [At Hanover]
• Madame de Rémusat: Remembrances of Napoleon [At this Site]
• Lord Londonderry Letter to Richard Rush: The Death of Napoleon, July 30, 1821 [At Yale]
• The Civil Code

Napoleonic Wars

• Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821): Speech to Troops, 1796 [At History Guide]
• Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821): Account of the Situation of the Empire, 1804 [At Hanover]
• Charles O'Malley: Wellington's Crossing of the Douro, 1809 [At this Site]
• The Return of Napoleon from Elba, 1815 [At the Site]
• WEB Letters and Dispatches of Horotio Nelson [At wtj.com]