Portal:French Revolution

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A collection of texts associated with the French Revolution (1789–1799).

"Capture of the Bastille, 14 July 1789", by anonymous artist, ca 1789–1794

Archives

  • A Journal of Occurences at the Temple, During the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France, by Jean-Baptiste Cléry (1798) (start transcription)
  • A Narrative of Remarkable Occurrences, Connected With the Death of Louis XVI, Late King of France, by Henry Essex Edgeworth (1812) (start transcription)
  • Journal of My Life During the French Revolution, by Grace Dalrymple Elliot (1859) (start transcription)
  • History of the Girondists, or Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution, by Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Henry T. Ryde (1850)
  • Memoirs of General Lafayette and of the French Revolution of 1830, by Jean-Bernard Sarrans (1832) (start transcription) Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette
  • Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Wife of Louis XVI, by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan (1910) (start transcription)
  • Memoirs of the Abbe Edgeworth, Containing His Narrative of the Last Hours of Louis XVI., by Henry Essex Edgeworth (1815) (start transcription)
  • Royal Memoirs on the French Revolution, by Louis XVIII & Marie Thérèse of France (1823) (start transcription)
  • The Authentic Historical Memoirs of Louis Charles, Prince-Royal, Dauphin of France, Second Son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, Who, Subsequently to October 1793, Personated Through Supposititious Means, Augustus Meves, by Augustus Antoine Cornelius Meves (1868) (start transcription)

Arts

  • French Furniture Under Louis XVI and the Empire, by Roger de Félice (1921) (start transcription)
  • Injuries to Works of Art During the French Revolution of 1848 (1849) (start transcription)
  • Louis XVI Furniture, by Seymour de Ricci (1913) (start transcription)
  • Symbol and Satire in the French Revolution, by Ernest Flagg Henderson (1912) (start transcription)
  • The French Revolution & Napoleon in Literature & Caricature, by George Henry Sargent (1906) (start transcription)
  • The French Revolution and the English Novel, by Allene Gregory Allen (1915) (start transcription)

Biographies

  • John Thelwall, a Pioneer of Democracy and Social Reform in England During the French Revolution, by Charles Cestre & Cynthia Morgan St. John (1906) (start transcription)
  • Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution, by Scott Walter (1821) (start transcription)
  • Robespierre and the French Revolution, by Charles Franklin Warwick (1909) (start transcription)
  • The French Revolution and Napoleon, by Charles Downer Hazen (1917) (start transcription)
  • The Life of Napoleon, With the History of France, From the Death of Louis XVI to the Year 1821, by William Grimshaw (1829) (start transcription)
  • The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan, translated by Ramsey Weston Phipps (1889) (start transcription)

Fiction

History

Ideology

  • Secret Societies and the French Revolution, Together With Some Kindred Studies, by Una Pope-Hennessy (1911) (start transcription)
  • The French Revolution and Modern French Socialism, by Jessica Blanche Peixotto (1901) (start transcription)
  • The Spirit of Propagandism in the French Revolution, 1789–1793, by Arthur Guy Terry (1906) (start transcription)

Poetry

References

Speeches

Statutes

Trials

  • Judgment and Execution of Louis XVI. King of France, by Henry Goudemetz (1794) (start transcription)
  • Proceedings of the French National Convention on the Trial of Louis XVI, by Joseph Trapp (1793) (start transcription)
  • The Trial at Large of Louis XVI. Late King of France (1793) (start transcription)
  • The Trial of Louis XVI. Late King of France, Who Was Beheaded on Monday, January 21, 1793 (1793) (transcription project)
  • Trial of Marie Antoinette, Late Queen of France, Before the Revolutionary Tribunal, at Paris (1794) (start transcription)