The French Revolution

About this Collection

Like the American Revolution (1775-1783), the French Revolution (1789-1815), had its roots in the Enlightenment and 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.

See also the following resources:

• the intellectual debate on The French Revolution which took place during the 1790s
• the topic on The American Revolution and the Constitution

Members:

• On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
• L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (7th ed. 1866) (Alexis de Tocqueville)
• An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizenness Roland (Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platière)
• An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, Volume 1 (Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platière)
• An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, Volume 2 (Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platière)
• Des circonstances actuelles qui peuvent terminer la Révolution et des principes qui doivent fonder la république en France (Germaine de Staël)
• Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (LF ed.) (Germaine de Staël)
• Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution française, 3 vols. (Germaine de Staël)
• Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution française, vol. 1 (Germaine de Staël)
• Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution française, vol. 2 (Germaine de Staël)
• Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution française, vol. 3 (Germaine de Staël)
• The Continental System: An Economic Interpretation (Eli F. Heckscher)
• David Hume: Prophet of the Counter-revolution (Laurence L. Bongie)
• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens (Georg Jellinek)
• The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, 2 vols. (Gouverneur Morris)
• The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol. 1 (Gouverneur Morris)
• The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, vol. 2 (Gouverneur Morris)
• The Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate in France 2 vols (Augustin Thierry)
• The Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate in France vol. 1 (Augustin Thierry)
• The Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate in France vol. 2 (Augustin Thierry)
• The French Revolution, 3 vols (Hippolyte Taine)
• Further Reflections on the French Revolution (Edmund Burke)
• An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (Mary Wollstonecraft)
• Judgments on History and Historians (Jacob Burckhardt)
• Lectures on the French Revolution (1910 ed.) (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)