Napoleon proclaims the constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons;
Online Collections
- British Newspaper Coverage of the French RevolutionA small archive of newspaper coverage from the British view
- French Revolution Digital ArchiveThe French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
- France: 1789 - 1871 - EuroDocsA collaboration between Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Excerpts from letters, diaries, edicts, and other documents of the French Revolution. A collection of over 520 pamphlets from the French Revolution.
- French Revolution Pamphlet CollectionThe publication dates of the pamphlets range from 1776-1817, although the bulk dates from 1789-1795. The collection consists of some 3000 official reports, speeches, letters, documents, laws, and literary publications.
- Liberty, Equality, Eternity: Exploring the French RevolutionProvides an introduction to the French Revolution as well as an archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, August 26, 1789Drafted by the Marquis de Lafayette in August of 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen extolled a “natural law” giving all men (but not women or slaves) the right to freedom, liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. It was adopted by the National Assembly, who represented the people during the French Revolution, and was inspired by Age of Enlightenment thought. It formed the basis of France’s first constitution.
Primary Sources in Print
1812 : eyewitness accounts of Napoleon's defeat in Russia by Call Number: DC235.B8
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Recommended resources from the BPL (search for them or browse the list)
- 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
- 18th Century Collections Online
- Times of London Digital Archive