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"A Great Ferment": Trouble Brewing in France

Texts:
  • Arthur Young): Travels in France
  • Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière: The State of the French Economy
  • Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot: Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth by M. Turgot, Comptroller General of the Finances of France,
  • Abbé Sieyes: What is the Third Estate?
  • Gwynne Lewis: The People and the French Revolution
  • The Tennis Court Oath
  • Decree Abolishing Feudalism
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man

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    The Constitutional Monarchy: Establishing a New Order

    Texts:
  • Civil Constitution of the Clergy
  • Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France

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    To the Radical Republic and Back

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    Napoleon Bonaparte

    Texts:
  • Madame de Rémusat: Remembrances of Napoleon
  • Catholic Encyclopedia: Concordat of 1801
  • The Napoleonic Civil Code
  • The Imperial Catechism
  • Napoleon Bonaparte: Account of the Situation of the Empire
  • Napoleon Bonaparte: Farewell to the Old Guard
  • The Return of Napoleon from Elba

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