A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The French Revolution

Internet Exercises

Complaints about the Ancien Regime Use several of the Cahiers des Doleances to describe the nature of the complaints about the Ancien Regime.
Link 1 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/resource/6a.htm#Title)



Link 2 (http://campus.northpark.edu/history/Classes/Sources/Cahiers.html)



Link 3 (http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/intellect/cahiers.html)



Link 4 (http://history.hanover.edu/texts/cahiers1.html)



Link 5 (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/courses/europe1/chron/cahiers.htm)



Link 6 (http://history.hanover.edu/texts/cahiers2.html)



Link 7 (http://history.hanover.edu/texts/cahiers3.html)



Link 8 (http://history.hanover.edu/texts/cahier.htm)

Historical debate Analyze the historical debate over how the French Revolution began by comparing a classic text, Georges Lefebvre's The Coming of the French Revolution with Elizabeth Eisenstein's revisionist interpretation.
Link 1 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/resource/4ac(ii).htm#Title)



Link 2 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/resource/24a(i).htm#Title)

England and the French Revolution

How was the French Revolution read by contemporaries across the English Channel?

Link 1
(http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/research/around-1800/FR/)

Art as propaganda Using the conservative English caricaturist James Gillray's anti-French cartoons and the revolutionary French painter Jacques Louis David's anti-English satirical print, show how art was employed as propaganda during the era of the French Revolution.
Link 1 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/acks/4b1(iii).htm#Title)



Link 2 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/acks/20ba(ii).htm#Title)



Link 3 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/acks/21bc(i)a.htm#Title)



Link 4 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/acks/bind155s.htm#Title)

The composition of revolutionary legislatures

Analyze changes in the social composition of legislatures from the National Assembly (1789) to the Convention (1792).

Link 1
(http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/acks/cobb109.htm#Title)

Enemies lists

Compare and contrast the Convention's Law of Suspects (1793) with the Directory's Law against Public Enemies (1796).

Link 1
(http://www.napoleonseries.org/reference/political/legislation/enemies.cfm)

Sans culottes Who were sans culottes, and what did they want?
Link 1 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/acks/redcaps.htm#Title) [Image] Sans-Culottes



Link 2 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/resource/makehas.htm#Title) [Primary] Politics of Sans-Culottes



Link 3 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/resource/19a(i).htm#Title) [Secondary]

Women and the French Revolution What roles did women play during the French Revolution? What were the effects of the revolution on French women?
Link 1 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/resource/13a(4).htm#Title) [Secondary] Women



Link 2 (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/0001/img0009.jpg) [Image] Women



Link 3 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/resource/15a(3).htm#Title) [Primary Source] Arthur Young, Travels in France



Link 4 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/suffrage/document/mascufem.htm)



Link 5 (http://www.woodberry.org/acad/hist/FRWEB/MARCH/event_march.htm)



Link 6 (http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/frenrev/acks/13bda(4).htm)



Link 7 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html) ([Primary Source] Olympe de Gouges, The Rights of Women)

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