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:

• Lectures on the French Revolution (LF ed.) (John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton)
• Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (Joseph Priestley)
• Liberty Matters: Germaine de Staël, Fanaticism, and the Spirit of Party (March 2019) (Aurelian Craiutu)
• The Miscellaneous Works (Sir James Mackintosh)
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (Catharine Macaulay)
• The Origins and Principles of the American Revolution (Friedrich von Gentz)
• The French Revolution, vol. 1 (Hippolyte Taine)
• The French Revolution, vol. 2 (Hippolyte Taine)
• The French Revolution, vol. 3 (Hippolyte Taine)
• The Rights of Nature against the Usurpations of Establishments (1796) (John Thelwall)
• Select Works of Edmund Burke, 4 vols. (Francis Canavan)
• Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 2 (Francis Canavan)
• Sur l’admission des femmes au droit au cité (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
• A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Mary Wollstonecraft)
• Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution (Sir James Mackintosh)
• The Writings of Thomas Paine, 4 vols. (Thomas Paine)
• The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. II (1779-1792) (Thomas Paine)
• The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. III (1791-1804) (Thomas Paine)