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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
French Revolution
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The French Revolution
- WEB Exploring the French Revolution (George Mason University, City Univ. NY)
- WEB Livre des sources médiévales
Contains considerable material in French on the Ancien Regime and the Revolution.
- Summary: The French
Revolution
- Wikipedia: French Revolution
- [Wikisource] Incomplete HTML version. Complete PDF of original book here [Wikisource]
This is massive resource of primary source in English translation.
- YouTube: The Sound of the Tocsin [YouTube links are subject to change]
A tocsin is an alarm of imminent danger sounded by bells. On a number of occasions during the revolution the sound of the Tocsin was a signal for action, often violent action.
- 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 [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
- 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 [Was At
McMaster, now Internet Archive]. Or in French [Was At
McMaster, now Internet Archive]
- 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] [Internet Archive version here]
- Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière: The State of the French
Economy, 1789 [At this Site]
- Map: Areas covered by the Parlements in 1789
- Liberal Revolution
- Abbé Sieyes: What is the Third Estate? [At this Site]
RG Reading Guide - Early
French Revolution
- The Tennis Court
Oath, June 20, 1789 [At History Guide]
[Internet Archive version here]
- Paris Newspaper Account of the Fall of the Bastille, July 14 1789 [At History Guide]
[Internet Archive version here]
- Declaration of the Rights of Man, 26 August, 1789 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- Déclaration des Droits de l'homme et du citoyen , 26 August, 1789 [At Conseil Constitutionnel][In French]
- Depositions on the October Days [At History Guide]
[Internet Archive version here]
- Decree Abolishing Feudalism,
1789 [At Hanover]
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy,
1790 [At Hanover]
- WEB Documents on the Emancipation of the Jews 1789 [At Marxists] [Internet Archive version here]
- Map: French provinces before 1790 and today's departments
- Map: French departments (created 1790, with some later adjustments)
- Radical Revolution
- King Louis XVI: Declaration of the King Addressed to All the French About His Flight from Paris (Flight to Varennes), June 21, 1791. [At History Guide]
[Internet Archive version here]
- Declaration of Pillnitz 27 August 1791 [Text included in Wikipedia]
A statementby Prussia and Austria in support of Louis XVI. This led to a war fever in France.
-
Documents of the National
Convention, c. 1792 [At Hanover]
- The Journee of August 10, 1792 Decree of the National Assembly for Suspending the King [At History Guide]
[Internet Archive version here]
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Proclamation of the Duke of
Brunswick, 1792 [At Hanover]
The threat that lead to the onset of the French Revolutionary wars.
- Condorcet: Account of the Events of August 10, 1792 [At Marxists] [Internet Archive version here]
- Wikpedia: The September Massacres 1792
The most intense revolutionary violence of the Revolution took place from 2nd to 6th September 1792, with between 1,176 and 1,1614 people killed, many being hacked to death with knnives and saws. 223 of them were Catholic priests and bishops who have refused to swear alliegance to the state [List here at Italian Wikipedia]. 191 of them were beatified in 1926, The only one so-far canonised is St Salmone Leclerq (in 2016).
- Earl Gower: Dispatches on the September Massacres 1792 [At George Mason University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Reply to the Impertinent Question: What is a Sans-Culotte?" April 1793 [At History Guide]
[Internet Archive version here]
- The Sans-Culotte’s Alphabet, or The First Elements of Republican Education
1792 [At Marxists] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Trial and Execution of the King (Dec 1792/Jan 1793) [At History Guide]
[Internet Archive version here]
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797): The Death of Marie Antoinette [At
this Site]
- The Leveé en Masse, August 23, 1793 [At this Site]
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The Doctrine of
Graccus Babeufh, 1795 [Was At Clinch Valley College, now Internet Archive]
- Decree on the Republican Calendar 24 October 1793 [At Marxists] [Internet Archive version here]
- French Republican Calendar [Wikipedia]
- Marquis de Sade: Petition in Support of Temples to the Cult of Reason 1793 [At Marxists] [Internet Archive version here]
- 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
- Durand de Maillane: The Ninth of Thermidor, July 28, 1794 [At History Guide] [Internet Archive version here]
- Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud (1753–1793):
The Revolution Will Devour its Own, Like Saturn Devouring his Children, Speech to the National Convention, 13 March 1793 [At this Site]
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2ND Gwynne Lewis: The
People and the French Revolution [Was At Warwick, now Internet Archive]
- The Revolution and Culture
- Ça Ira [At this Site]
The most popular of the revolutionary songs
- YouTube: Edith Piaf: Ca Ira, from a 1953 film produced by Sasha Guitry, "Si Versailles M'Etait Conté" (If Versailles Told me its Story). Compares a more traditional rendition here. [Note - YouTube links have a tendency to change. ]
- La Marseillaise [At this Site]
- Internal Resistance to the Revolution
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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 [Was At Clinch Valley College, now Internet Archive]
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the
Revolution in France, 1791, moderate length excerpts [Was At Baylor, now Internet Archive]
- 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]
[Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809): The Rights of Man 1792 [Project Gutenberg]
A response to Edmund Burke.
- Thomas Paine(1737-1809): The Rights of Man,
1791-1792 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB German Appraisals of the Revolution [GHDI] [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB Anti-Revolutionary Measures in the Austrian Empire [GHDI] [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB The Revolutionary Republic of Mainz, 1792/93, and the French Occupation of the Rhineland [GHDI] [Internet Archive version here]
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Napoleon I Bonaparte(1769-1821)
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Napoleonic Wars
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