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)
- The French Revolution: Texts & Archives
- (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)
- Napoleon Period Collection of French and English caricatures
- 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)
- Diplomatic Documents from the Napoleon Series
- 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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