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Finding Primary Sources Online
Primary sources are increasingly available online as historical societies, museums, and other organizations digitize their primary source collections. Try adding the terms below to your online search:
This exhibit provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.
French Revolution Digital Archive (Stanford University and Bibliotheque Nationale de France) The 5,126 images selected for this digital archive concentrate solely on the period from 1787 through 1799, from the years immediately preceding the outbreak of the Revolution through the emergence of Napoleon.
William Jennings Bryan, ed. The World’s Famous Orations, Continental Europe, vol. 7 (1906) For French Revolutionary speeches, see Desmoulins through Carnot
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