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by William Doyle. 237 pgs.

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Contributors:

   William Doyle

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford  

Publication Year:

  1999
Subjects:   France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Historiography
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Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799 - Vol. 1
Book by Samuel F. Scott, Barry Rothaus; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Dictionaries
...Journal of World History Reim...Consultat, mai 1789-nov embre 1799, avec des notes...Revue de la Revolution Rev...litt. de la France Revue dhistoire...spokesman for its causes even though he...Fugier, La Revolution francaise et...revolutionnaire de la France dans le monde de 1789 a 1799 , 2 vols...lEurope , 1795-1799 Paris...in the French Revolution, 1789-1793," Hist...
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Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799 - Vol. 2
Book by Samuel F. Scott, Barry Rothaus; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Dictionaries
...returned again to France after the Napoleonic coup in 1799 but took up residence in Bordeaux, shunning politics...Clermont-Tonnerre in oratorical skill. But he played his Revolutionary role with the integrity, honesty, and courage that was...Revolution des Notables; Mounier et les monar chiens , 1789 Paris, 1950 ; L. de Laborie, Jean-Joseph Mounier...de La Marck and a German regiment in the service of France from his maternal grandfather, L. dEngelbert, who had...Jardin du Roi under the name of the Museum of Natural History 10 June 1793 and confirmed the positions of twelve...works cited, Lamarck published Recherches sur les causes des principaux faits physiques 2 vols., 1794...
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The Revolution in Provincial France: Aquitaine, 1789-1799
Book by Alan Forrest; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Aquitaine (France)--History, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799
...short and fractured history -- it had been founded...was annexed to France -- it enjoyed more...every province of France, during the last...and the spring of 1789. Even after the...Lot-et-Garonne dans la Revolution Francaise , 1789-99 Agen, 1989...
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War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State: Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791-1799
Book by Howard G. Brown; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Civil-military relations--France--History--18th century, France--Armee--Management, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence, Organizational change--France--History--18th century, Public administration--France--History
...H. M. MAYR-HARTING SIR KEITH THOMAS War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791-1799 HOWARD G. BROWN CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD 1995...monographs Includes bibliographical references. 1. France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence. 2. Organizational change--France--History...
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The Spirit of Revolution in 1789
Book by Cornwell B. Rogers; Princeton University Press, 1949
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes, Public Opinion--France
...granted. His task is to recreate history, and along the broadest lines...treating of the spirit of 1789, I have had occasion to trace...on the intricate pattern of Revolutionary thought and feeling. This...democratic beginnings in the France of 1789, in the hope of better...may say that the greatest revolution of all modern history previous to the twentieth...ill-defined ones, that made the year 1789 a time of such happy political exaltation in France and allowed the mood of experimentation...important volume on the early history of the Revolution, "At the moment when the Estates...seventy-five years, the King of France was still, by right, the absolute...Convocation du 24 janvier 1789, in A. Brette, ed., Recueil...
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"Let Them Eat Cake": The Mythical Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution
Journal article by Nancy N. Barker; The Historian, Vol. 55, 1993
Subjects: France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France--Public opinion, Misogyny--History
...History," in Writing Womens History: International Perspectives...Mercure de Frane, Gazette de France, LAmi du peuple, Journal...only briefly in 1793), Revolutions de Paris, Revolutions...and Society in France, 1789-1848 (Leicester, 1987...nouveau Paris (Paris, 1799), 3:10-11. For hostile...were short-term economic causes that served the purpose...folio 5003; Mercure de France, April 1791, folios 304-308. (25) Revolutions de France et de Brabant...the French Revolution, 1789-1799 (Los Angeles, 1988), 37...The journalist got his history wrong. It was Brunhilda...
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Fifty Years of Rewriting the French Revolution: John Dunne Signposts Main Landmarks and Current Directions in the Historiographical Debate
Journal article by John Dunne; History Review, 1998
Subjects: France--Revolution, 1789-1799, History--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Revolutions--France
Fifty years of rewriting the French Revolution: John Dunne signposts main landmarks and current directions...of agreement within the academic community, not just in France but worldwide, about the causes, nature and meaning of the events of 1789 and the following decade. Ultimately these were to be...was incorrect but called for a fresh empirical, social history approach to the Revolution. New Revisionists as a whole...
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Wordsworth's Children of the Revolution
Journal article by Ann Wierda Rowland; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 41, 2001
Subjects: Children--Portrayals, depictions, etc., English literature, 1775-1837 (Romantic period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Wordsworth, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...images of the first two books of The Prelude written in 1799. In this essay I want to explore these images of children...Wordsworth implicates children in his understanding of revolutionary violence and to thus extend our understanding of how and why he associates France with childhood and youth. These questions gather particular...this wound as it effectually replaces the childs face and causes a self-splitting wound in the sailor: "through his brain...experience of the self as other, struck through by the force of history, is the experience that Wordsworth confronts and replicates...
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Revolution and the French Disease: Laetitia Matilda Hawkins's 'Letters' to Helen Maria Williams
Journal article by Steven Blakemore; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 36, 1996
Subjects: English literature, 1775-1837 (Romantic period)--Social aspects, France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Hawkins, Laeticia Matilda--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Williams, Helen Maria--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--18th century
...transformed into an "intemperate Fury" ("Women Writing Revolution: Narratives of History and Sexuality in Woll-stonecraft and Williams," in...Williams, With particular reference to her "Letters" from France, 2 vols. (London: Hookham and Carpenter, 1793). All...his prorevolutionary Letters on the Revolution of France. 12 Gary Kelly, "Revolutionary and Romantic Feminism: Women, Writing, and Cultural...15 See Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, trans. Richard Howard...
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Edmund Burke, Marie Antoinette, and the Procedure Criminelle
Journal article by Steven Blakemore, Fred Hembree; The Historian, Vol. 63, 2001
Subjects: Burke, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc., France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Social conflict--18th century, United Kingdom--18th century
...BLAKEMORE , FRED HEMBREE In the tumultuous days of 1789, a popular revolution swept through France, culminating in the storming of the Bastille and the formation...Commons in 1765, he promoted a variety of progressive causes throughout his tenure (1765-94), including opposition...Revolution and one of the great political documents in Western history. While Burkes pamphlet influenced the debate in Europe...
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A Vindication of Edmund Burke
Magazine article by Conor Cruise O'Brien; National Review, Vol. 42, December 17, 1990
Subjects: Burke, Edmund--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, France, French Revolution, 1789, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Russia, Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
...Reflections-was the most tranquil stage, in appearance, in the history of the Revolution. It was a period of constitution-making, of benevolent...this remarkable passage occurred on 18 brumaire 1799, nine years after the publication of the Reflections...Society to the French National Assembly, in November 1789, on Frances achievement of liberty. The passage runs: I flatter...There is a real continuity between the Revolution in France and the Revolution in Russia. That continuity is often denied-especially...universal liberation, supposedly inspired by the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen...the celebration was brilliantly successful. As history, it was nonsense. The edifying sentiments expressed...
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Napoleon the Kingmaker
Magazine article by Philip Mansel; History Today, Vol. 48, March 1998
Subjects: Europe--History, Monarchy--France, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Evaluation
...Yet, unlike those of 1830 and 1848, the revolution of 1789 inspired more revulsion than imitation abroad. From Naples...of organisation. Thus when Bonaparte seized power in 1799, while much of Europe had been conquered by the armies...their presence alone maintains public tranquility and causes a sensation. An Austrian later called such a review...Coalition, Paul I suggested that Bonaparte make the throne of France hereditary in his family. The Hofburg, rather than...in 1800. Napoleon never wavered on such gains of the Revolution as equality before the law, religious toleration, the...1453-1924 (Penguin 1997). He is currently working on a history of Paris between 1814 and 1848. He is editor of The Court...
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Talleyrand: The Old Fraud
Magazine article by Andrew Roberts; New Criterion, Vol. 25, April 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France (Book)--Book reviews
...ecclesiastical privilege. (It was the first of very many causes he was to betray.) Owing to a fortunate series of episcopal deaths, he was appointed Bishop of Autun in January 1789 by Louis XVI, to whom he had sworn allegiance at his...and the subject of his second betrayal). During the Revolution six months later, Talleyrand started his lifelong policy...the rising star of General Bonaparte on his return to France in 1796. "The name alone of Bonaparte is a help that...in their favor--finally forced his resignation in July 1799, but by then Bonaparte was the coming man, and contemplating...them. He employed the best chef in Europe--perhaps in history--Antonin Careme, and entertained lavishly. His luncheons...
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President or King?
Magazine article by Simon Collinson; History Today, Vol. 50, November 2000
Subjects: Elections--1800, Federal Party--Political activity, Jefferson, Thomas--Elections, Political parties--Analysis
...introduced into this discourse were enormous. The American Revolution remained the crucial defining event in the American mind...to his friend and political ally James Madison in July 1789, Jefferson, already beginning to differ from Adams on matters...principles. In 1799...Britain remained intense throughout the 1790s. Long-standing causes of estrangement dating from the War of Independence were exacerbated by the commencement of war between France and Britain in February 1793. Many Americans felt an intense...
5.
Portugal's Mad Queen
Magazine article by Jenifer Roberts; History Today, Vol. 57, December 2007
Subjects: Maria I, Queen of Portugal--Family, Maria I, Queen of Portugal--Health aspects, Maria I, Queen of Portugal--Psychological aspects, Mental disorders--Diagnosis, Mental illness--Diagnosis, Queens--Family, Queens--Health aspects, Queens--Psychological aspects, Royalty--Family, Royalty--Health aspects, Royalty--Psychological aspects
...seriousness at court. In September 1789, Maria banned the editor...called to consult upon the causes of her uneasiness and apprehensions...and it was not until July 1799 (after the long experience...Regent. Meanwhile, the French Revolution led to the outbreak of war...was under pressure from France to close his ports to British...Roberts, Glass: The Strange History of the Lyne Stephens Fortune...Saraiva, Portugal: A Companion History (Carcanet, 1997); Patrick...articles on this subject in the History Today archive and details...
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The Battle That Made Our Nation, Incontestably, the Strongest on Earth; BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR BICENTENARY - A SIX-PAGE COMMEMORATIVE SPECIAL,As the 200th Anniversary of Nelson's Victory at Trafalgar Draws near, a Leading Historian Explains How That One Day Changed Britain's Future.Review
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 26, 2005
...he and his victorious Navy had secured their place in history. That day 200 years ago was so much more than just one...the new British tactic of close blockade, adopted in 1799, had sharply limited their opportunities of gaining sea...They blame the uncleanliness of the French, and say it causes more casualties than the English. They wash the entire...ask how Britain succeeded in naval warfare, although France throughout the 18th century was the larger and wealthier...which they were sliding - and into which they fell in 1789, when financial crisis led to the French Revolution. In 18th Century Britain, each war was partly paid...


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French Revolution
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...The French Revolution, though it seemed a failure in 1799 and appeared nullified by 1815, had far-reaching results. In France the bourgeois and landowning classes emerged as the dominant...relations were consolidated by the Code Napoleon . The Revolution unified France and enhanced the power of the national state...Albert Mathiez , and Georges Lefebvre ; the diplomatic history by Albert Sorel ; the socialist interpretation of Jean...Revolutionary Origins (1944, repr. 1963); D. Sutherland, France, 1789 1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution (1986); and F...


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