France: 1789 - 1871

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Excerpts from letters, diaries, edicts, and other documents of the French Revolution.
(1789-1796; French transcriptions)
Documenting aftereffects of the Revolution on the Chroniques de France website.
(French transcriptions)
89 literary and satirical pamphlets held at Emory University.
(1789-1799; facsimiles and transcriptions)
Documents of the Revolution from the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
(1789-1802; photo facsimiles)
With over 600 documents.
A joint project of George Mason University and City University of New York.
(1789-1796 plus precursor and aftermath events; translations, image facsimiles, maps & timeline)
(Translations)
A project of the Center for History & New Media, George Mason University
and the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles for the American Historical Review.
(1789-1793; facsimile images and essays)
From Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
(1790; English transcription)
(Transcription)
Part of the Carlyle Letters Online assembled by Duke University Press.
(1812-1857; database of searchable transcriptions)

(1789; transcription of French original)
(1789; English translation)

Documents from the Avalon Project
(1791-1800; transcriptions and translations).

A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(Late 18th & early 19th centuries; transcriptions and translations)

A masterful and growing collection of online documents with search engine from the Fondation Napoléon
(French language transcriptions)

With collections of digital maps as well as documents and commentaries.
Well over 1,000 webpages of Napoleonic information
(Facsimiles and transcriptions)

A growing digital collection of monographs, serials, maps, prints, and manuscripts on the Napoleonic era.
Browse or search modes are available.
(Facsimiles and transcriptions)

Satirical drawings, cartoons, caricatures of Napoleon and his era.
A part of the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.
(1793-1815; facsimiles)
A rich collection of satires and caricature images of Napoleon.
From the Center for Digitial Initiatives, Brown University.
(Facsimiles and English commentary)

Treaties, speeches, diplomatic correspondence, etc.
(1796-1815; English translations)
(1798-1819; English translations)
The civil code that still affects present-day law.
(1804-1810; English translation)
A collection of Napoleonic documents from the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire
(1792 - 1815; facsimiles with French-language transcriptions)
French Treaties & Conventions of the Napoleonic era from the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire
(1799 - 1815; French-language transcriptions)
Browsable and searchable database of Napoleonic laws from the website Histoire du Consulat et du Premier Empire
(1798 - 1815; French-language transcriptions)
(20 April, 1814; English translation)
Regarding the death of Napoleon and the island of St. Helena
(July 30, 1821; English transcription)

Digital library of Library of Congress in cooperation with the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
A bilingual site offering digitized books, prints, maps and manuscripts on the French presence in North America.
(16th - 19th centuries; facsimiles, transcriptions, and maps).

An exhibition celebrating the 250th birthday of the Marquis de LaFayette.
With primary documents, artifacts and commentary from Cornell University.
(1757-1834; facsimiles of documents and objects)

Searchable full-text database of the Masson Papers, digitised by McGill University.
(1790 - 1820; searchable facsimiles with added transcriptions).
Provincial historical documents regarding English and French interests.
Digitised by the National Library of Canada.
(19th and 20th centuries; transcriptions).
Constitutional documents, treaties, and other primary sources regarding English and French interests in Canada.
(1760 to the present; transcriptions).

Documentary excerpts on the Restoration and the 1830 Revolution in France.
(1828-1830; French transcriptions)

Documentary excerpts on the abolition of slavery in France.
(1789-1848; French transcriptions)

A joint project of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFL Project.
(1848; photo facsimiles)
Documentary excerpts on the 1848 Revolution and the Second Republic.
(1848; French transcriptions)

A searchable database from the Northwestern University Library.
(1870-1871; photo facsimiles of portraits, political caricatures and handwritten notes)

Documentary excerpts on the the beginnings of the Third Republic.
(1871-1880; French transcriptions)

Constitutional variants reproduced on the Ministry of Culture's Archim imagebank.
(1789 - present; photo facsimiles)
- To access, click on "Consultation" -

containing names of Intendants and periods of incumbency in different intendances (French provinces).
From the University of Wisconsin.
(1661-1790; data files)

Royal monetary edicts and decrees from the mid ninth century until after the French Revolution.
Also a good source for information on the succession of French kings.
(843-1792; published transcriptions in pdf file).
Under construction in reverse chronological order: most recent years available first.

Documents from the Avalon Project
(1778-1843; transcriptions and translations).

A Brown University Library Digital Collection.
Online access to pictorial works and texts that provide a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture.
(19th century; images and French language textual facsimiles)

A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(19th century; transcriptions and translations)

Documents and images from the French-speaking world in the 19th century
Searchable database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
(French facsimiles and transcriptions)

A growing collection of documented texts.
(From ancient times through 1914; Latin, Langue d'Oc, Langue d'Oil transcriptions and translations)

The Electronic Library of Lisieux
With source texts, some archived in zip-format.
(17th - 20th centuries; French transcriptions)

Lafayette Collection
Click on digital facsimiles.
Plethora of facsimiles ranging from Laffayete's family and private life to French politics.
Images from the Maurepas Collection
Facsimiles from Maurepas collection

Photographic reproductions of constitutions, edicts, treaties, letters, photos, atlases and official seals
of relevance to French national and regional history --
available either by search engine or by thematic "dossiers."
Database with thematic and chronological searches possible.
(1789-1939; facsimile images)

Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)

100 historical maps of Paris.
(18th and 19th century; facsimiles -- GIF files)
A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities
(Facsimiles).

Historical documents and commentary on the region -- former duchy -- of Savoy.
(1100 - present; French & Latin transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries)

(Facsimiles).


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