Wednesday, 15 July 2020
French revolution some free academic primary sources for social scientists
French Revolution Digital Archive (Stanford University and Bibliotheque Nationale de France) enormous site which includes the data project which OCRed, and encoded the first 82 (of 102) volumes of the Archives parlementaires (AP), the record of speeches and deliberations from French Revolutionary constitutional and legislative assemblies. over 5,000 images and icons
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
more than 600 primary documents from a site created by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project at City University of New York, Also includes a timeline of the revolution
major internet archives have individual memoirs including:
The principal speeches of the statesmen and orators of the French Revolution, 1789-1795 (1892)
Letters from Paris, on the Causes and Consequences of the French Revolution, by William C. Somerville, 1822
Memoirs Relating to the French Revolution, by Francois-Claude-amour Bouille, marquis de. 1797
On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship, by Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, 1790Another excellent starting point to search is Gallica
the digital library of the BNF which has images, books and more online
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