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French Revolution

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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]

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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 [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]

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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

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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]

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NOTES: Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page.. The date of inception was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.