Portal:French Revolution

"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)
• 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

• A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
• Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (1891)
• In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy, by G. A. Henty (1888) (start transcription)
• Ninety-three, by Victor Hugo (1900)
• Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution, by Rafael Sabatini (1921)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Emma Orczy (1908)

History

• A Brief History of the French Revolution: Its Causes, Events, and Consequences (1789–1795), by Frederick Wilkins Aveling (1915) (start transcription)
• A Comparative View of the Social Life of England and France, From the Restoration of Charles the Second, to the French Revolution, by Mary Berry (1828) (start transcription)
• Defence of the French Revolution, by James Mackintosh (1791) (start transcription)
• Englishmen in the French Revolution, by John Goldworth Alger (1889)
• Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution, by John Wilson Croker (1857) (start transcription)
• History of Europe From the Commencement of the French Revolution, by Alison Archibald (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• History of the French Revolution, by François Auguste Marie Mignet (1868) (start transcription)
• History of the French Revolution, by Heinrich von Sybel (1867) (start transcription)
• History of the French Revolution of 1848, by Alphonse de Lamartine (1849) (start transcription)
• On French Revolution, by Willaim Smyth (1840) (start transcription)
• Reflections on the French Revolution, by Marcellus (1812) (start transcription)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke
• Religion and the Reign of Terror, or the Church During the French Revolution, by Edmond de Pressensé & John Power LaCroix (1869) (start transcription)
• Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine (1791) (transcription project)
• The French Revolution, by Hilaire Belloc (1911)
• "The French Revolution", by Robert Matteson Johnston, in The Harvard Classics Vol. 51 (1914)
• The French Revolution: A History, by Thomas Carlyle (1839) (start transcription)
• The French Revolution and Its Influence in Europe During the Nineteenth Century, by Katharine Coman (1893) (start transcription)
• The French Revolution and the Irish, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• The French Revolution: A Short History, by Robert Matteson Johnston (1909) (start transcription)
• "The French Revolution (Part 1)", by Thomas Carlyle, in The Works of Thomas Carlyle, Volume 2 (1896)
• "The French Revolution (Part 2)", by Thomas Carlyle, in The Works of Thomas Carlyle, Volume 3 (1896)
• The French Revolution Tested by Mirabeau's Career, by Hermann Von Holst (1894) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution, by François Guizot, translated by William Hazlitt (1856) (start transcription)
• The History of France, From the Foundation to the Monarchy, to the Death of Louis XVI, by William Grimshaw (1829) (start transcription)
• The History of the French Revolution, by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers, translated by Frederick Shoberl (1850) (start transcription)
• The Late French Revolution: Its Probable Bearings on the Peace of Europe and the World (1848) (start transcription)
• The Queen's Necklace, or the Secret History of the Court of Louis XVI, by Alexandre Dumas, translated by Thomas Williams (1850) (start transcription)
• The Storm and Its Portents: Scenes From the Reign of Louis XVI, by Thomas Lamb Phipson (1878) (start transcription)
• The Story of the French Revolution, by Ernest Belfort Bax (1922) (transcription project)
• The Village Cure: An Incident of the French Revolution, by D. W. B. (1846) (start transcription)

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

• La Marseillaise, by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1792)
• The French Revolution, by William Blake (1791)
• The Bastille, by Rupert Brooke (1905)

References

• "French Revolution," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "French Revolution, The," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Speeches

• Overtures of Peace with France, by William Pitt the Younger (1800)

Statutes

• Mirabeau and the French Constitution in the Years 1789 and 1790, by Fred Morrow Fling (1891) (transcription project)
• "Constitution of 1791", "Constitution of the Year I (1793)", "Constitution of the Year III (1795)", and "Constitution of the Year VIII (1799)", translated by Frank Maloy Anderson, in The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France, 1789–1907 (1908)

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)

Related authors

• Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740–1814)
• Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749–1791)
• Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793)
• Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794)
• Marie Antoinette (1755–1793)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)