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The French Revolution
- WEB Livre des sources médiévales
Contains considerable material in French on the Ancien Regime and the Revolution.
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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]
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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]
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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
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Documents of the National
Convention, c. 1792 [At Hanover]
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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.
- 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]
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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]
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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
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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]
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Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the
Revolution in France, 1791, short excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]
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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]
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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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