The two great revolutions of the 18th century, the American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1815), both had their roots in the Enlightenment and both attempted to put enlightened ideas about individual liberty and constitutional government into practice. That one attempt was successful and that the other one failed, leading instead to the Terror and Napoleon’s empire and militarism, has engaged thinkers ever since. Below is a list of the works on the French Revolution held in the Online Library of Liberty.
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title |
pub. date |
| author: Mary Wollstonecraft |
A Vindication of the Rights of Men |
1790 |
| author: Mary Wollstonecraft |
An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and the Effect it Has Produced in Europe |
1795 |
| author: Alexis de Tocqueville |
L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution |
1856 |
| author: Hippolyte Taine, translator: John Durand |
The French Revolution, vol. 3 |
1878 |
| author: Hippolyte Taine, translator: John Durand |
The French Revolution, vol. 2 |
1878 |
| author: Hippolyte Taine, translator: John Durand |
The French Revolution, vol. 1 |
1878 |
| author: Hippolyte Taine, author: John Durand |
The French Revolution, 3 vols. |
1878 |
| author: Germaine de Staël |
Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution française, vol. 3 |
1818 |
| author: Germaine de Staël |
Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution française, vol. 2 |
1818 |
| author: Germaine de Staël |
Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution française, vol. 1 |
1818 |
| author: Germaine de Staël |
Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution française, 3 vols. |
1818 |
| author: Germaine de Staël, editor: Aurelian Craiutu |
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (LF ed.) |
2008 |
| author: Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platière |
An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizenness Roland, vol. 2 |
1793 |
| author: Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platière |
An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizenness Roland, vol. 1 |
1793 |
| author: Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platière |
An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizenness Roland, 2 vols. |
1793 |
| author: Joseph Priestley |
Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke |
1791 |
| author: Thomas Paine, editor: Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. III (1791-1804) |
1791 |
| author: Thomas Paine, editor: Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. II (1779-1792) |
1779 |
| author: Thomas Paine, editor: Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Writings of Thomas Paine, 4 vols. |
1894 |
| author: Gouverneur Morris, editor: Anne Cary Morris |
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol. 2 |
1888 |
| author: Gouverneur Morris, editor: Anne Cary Morris |
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol. 1 |
1888 |
| author: Gouverneur Morris, editor: Anne Cary Morris |
The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, 2 vols. |
1888 |
| author: Sir James Mackintosh, editor: Donald Winch |
Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution |
1791 |
| author: Sir James Mackintosh, editor: Robert James Mackintosh |
The Miscellaneous Works |
1871 |
| author: Catharine Macaulay |
Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France |
1790 |
| author: Georg Jellinek, translator: Max Farrand |
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens: A Contribution to Modern Constitutional History |
1895 |
| author: Eli F. Heckscher, editor: Harald Westergaard |
The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation |
1918 |
| author: Friedrich von Gentz, translator: John Quincy Adams, editor: Peter Koslowski |
The Origins and Principles of the American Revolution, compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution |
1800 |
| author: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet |
Sur l’admission des femmes au droit au cité |
1790 |
| author: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, translator: Alice Drysdale Vickery |
On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship |
1790 |
| author: Edmund Burke, foreword: Francis Canavan |
Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 2 (Reflections on the Revolution in France) |
1790 |
| author: Edmund Burke, foreword: Francis Canavan |
Select Works of Edmund Burke, 4 vols. |
1770 |
| author: Jacob Burckhardt, foreword: Alberto R. Coll, translator: Harry Zohn |
Judgments on History and Historians |
1929 |
| author: Laurence L. Bongie, foreword: Donald Livingston |
David Hume: Prophet of the Counter-revolution |
1965 |
| author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, editor: John Neville Figgis, editor: Reginald Vere Laurence, foreword: Stephen J. Tonsor |
Lectures on the French Revolution (LF ed.) |
1910 |
| author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, editor: John Neville Figgis, editor: Reginald Vere Laurence |
Lectures on the French Revolution (1910 ed.) |
1910 |
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