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Contents

• France
  • The Restoration
  • The July Monarchy, 1831-1848
  • 1848
  • The Second Empire
  • The Franco-Prussian War and the Commune
  • The Third Republic
• French Literature

France

• WWW La Bibliotheque Electronique De Lisieux
  French texts, in French. Mostly 19th century.
• WWW French Legal Texts
• The Restoration
• The July Monarchy, 1831-1848
  • The French Constitution, 1830 [At this Site]
  • François Guizot (1787-1874): Condition of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848 [At this Site]
  • Alexander Ledru-Rollin: Speech to the Electors of Sarthe, 1841 [At this Site]
    An attack on the July Monarchy of Louis Philippe.
• 1848
  • Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): History of the Revolution of 1848 in France  [At this Site]
  • Percy B. St. John: The French Revolution in 1848 [At this Site]
• The Second Empire
  • Léon Gambetta (1838-82): The Belleville Manifesto, 1869 [At this Site]
• The Franco-Prussian War and the Commune
  • WEB Special Collections - The Paris Commune in Photographs [At NWU]
  • Chronology of the Civil War in France, 1871, [At Marxists.org]
  • First Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Franco-Prussian War, 1870, [At Marxists.org][Full Text]
  • Second Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Franco-Prussian War, 1870, [At Marxists.org][Full Text]
  • Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Civil War in France, 1871,[At Marxists.org][Full Text]
  • John Leighton: One Day Under the Paris Commune, 1871 [At this Site]
• The Third Republic
  • Law on Associations of 1 July 1901, in French [At Legifrance.gov].
  • Law on the Separation of Churches and State. 9 Dec 1905 , in French [At Saosnois.com] 
  • Baron Haussman Rebuilds Paris
  • Reparations and Sacre-Coeur

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French Literature

• Émile Zola: Germinal, 1885 Translated by Havelock Ellis (1894), full text [At ibiblio]
  See also Paul Brian's Study Guide [At WSU]

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