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5. The French Revolution and Napoleon

Abrantes, Laure Junot, Duchesse de. At the Court of Napoleon: Memoirs of the Duchessee D’Abrantes. New York: Doubleday, 1989. RGC: DC 198 .A3 1989

Arnold, Eric A. A Documentary Survey of Napoleonic France. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1993. RVS: KJV 4116 .D63 1993

Baker, Keith Michael, ed. The Old Regime and the French Revolution. (Readings in Western Civilization, No. 7.) Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1987. RVS DC 141 .O42 1987.

Jones, Colin, ed. Voices of the French Revolution. Topsfield, Mass.: Salem House Publishers, 1988. NRG, RGC: DC 162 .V65 1988

Kirchberger, Joe H. The French Revolution and Napoleon: An Eyewitness History. (Eyewitness History Series.) New York: Facts on File, 1989. (Has secondary source essays, short quotations from many speeches, letters, diaries, newspaper articles, and memoirs, plus fifty important documents reproduced in their entirety.) RVS: DC 148 .K56 1989

Levy, Darline Gay, and others, eds. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979. RVS: HQ 1616 .W6513 1979

Paine, Thomas. The Thomas Paine Reader. Edited by Michael Foot and Isaac Kramnick. London, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1987. (Includes The Rights of Man and other writings relating to the era of the French Revolution.) NRG, RGC, RVS: JC 177 .A3 1987

Roland, Mme (Marie-Jeanne). The Memoirs of Madame Roland. Translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh. Mount Kisco, N.Y.: Moyer Bell Limited, 1990. (Written in 1793, from prison in Paris, while awaiting execution by the guillotine. Had,.with husband, been leaders in the French Revolution before falling from grace. Much about bourgeois life under the ancien regime, as well as experiences during the revolution.) RVS: DC 145.R7 A3 1990

Walter, Jakob. Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. (Written by a German stonemason who was a common soldier in Napoleon’s Grand Army from 1806 to 1813. Campaigns covered include Prussia, Poland, and Russia. Author was indifferent to the outcome of the campaigns in which he fought.) RVS: DC 226.5 .W3513 1993

Walzer, Michael, ed. Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. (Primary source documents include 11 speeches [including two each by Saint-Just, Robespierre, and Paine] and excerpts from the French Constitution of 1791. Secondary sources: Several political history essays. Students will need to distinguish carefully between the two kinds of sources.) NRG: DC 137 .O8 W34 1992

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