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Event:

French Revolution: The "September Massacres"; also called "the uprising of the Paris Commune": 12,000 political prisoners murdered following the news of the fall of Verdun. (These prisoners were ordinary criminals, priests, aristocrats, counter-revolutionaries, and servants of these people.)

Topics:

*French Revolution  

Links for French Revolution:

(Constituent Assembly) Declaration of the Rights of Man (text put on line for the Avalon Project at Yale Univ.)

Fall of the Bastille (encyclopedia entry)

The French Revolution, 1789-1792 (site for high school students)

British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution (reproduces contemporaneous British accounts of the French Revolution) (Alan Liu)

Let Them Eat Cake (hagiography by an independent scholar)

Maximilen Robespierre, Robespierre, Terror and Virtue (excerpt from Robespierre's On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy) (Paul Halsall)

The French Revolution, Moderate Stage, 1789-1792 (online lecture by an independent scholar) (Steven Kreis)

French Revolution, Radical Stage, 1792-1794 (online lecture by an independent scholar) (Steven Kreis)

 

Record Created or Last Modified By:

Shawn Mummert

Date Last Modified:

6/24/1999