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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://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/369/ )
Link 2

( http://history.hanover.edu/texts/cahier.htm )
Link 3

( http://www2.msstate.edu/~am480/dourdancahier-clergy.htm )
Link 4

( http://history.hanover.edu/texts/cahiers1.html )
Link 5

( http://www2.msstate.edu/~am480/dourdancahier-third.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://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s8032.html )

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://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/gillray/captions/image34.html )
Link 2

( http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/gillray/captions/image33.html )
Link 3

( http://www.greatcaricatures.com/articles_galleries/gillray/galleries/html/1793_0729_heroi... )
Link 4

( http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/david_j/7/704david.html )

Sans culottes

Who were sans culottes, and what did they want?



Link 1
[Image] Sans-Culottes
( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Sans-culotte.jpg/200px-Sans-culo... )
Link 2
[Primary] Politics of Sans-Culottes
( http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/sans_culottes.html )
Link 3
[Secondary]
( http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/... )

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
[Secondary] Women
( http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2003/fr_rev_wmn.html )
Link 2
[Image] Women
( http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/0001/img0009.jpg )
Link 3
[Primary Source] Arthur Young, Travels in France
( http://history.hanover.edu/texts/young.html )
Link 4

( http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/condorcet4.html )
Link 5

( http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap5a.html )
Link 6

( http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~rpekarek/fresp9.html )
Link 7
([Primary Source] Olympe de Gouges, The Rights of Women)
( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html )







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