Found 25,048 results for "France, history, revolution, 1789-1799"
The Age of Revolution
by Eric Hobsbawm
THE first thing to observe about the world of the 1780s is that it was at once much smaller and much larger than ours.
Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...
The French Revolution
by Thomas Carlyle
PRESIDENT HENAULT, remarking on royal Surnames of Honor how difficult it often is to ascertain not only why, but even wh...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Emma Orczy
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...
De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
Scaramouche
by Rafael Sabatini
HE was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
La révolution en Charente-inférieure, 1789-1799
by Charente-Maritime, France (Dept.) Archives départementales
