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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