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France - Andorra - Monaco
John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton
Lectures on the French Revolution (LF ed.)
Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, <i>Lectures on the French Revolution</i> is a distinguished account of the entire epochal chapter in French experience by one of the most remarkable English historians of the nineteenth century.
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Arthur Young’s Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
Arthur Young was an 18th century pioneer in the detailed observation of economic conditions in the countryside and the collection of statistical data relating to agriculture. He was extraordinarily lucky in being in France on the eve of and during the early part of the French Revolution. In his dairies he gives close observations of the social, political and economic conditions of the French countryside as it was convulsed by violent revolution.
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An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and the Effect it Has Produced in Europe
An optimistic and rationalist account of the French Revolution based upon first-hand, eyewitness experiences. It was intended to defend the Revolution against critics like Burke. Wollstonecraft explained the violent excesses of the Revolution as an over-reaction caused by the degraded character of the French people which was in turn the result of the despotism of the old regime.
Open the reader →John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton
Lectures on the French Revolution (1910 ed.)
Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, <i>Lectures on the French Revolution</i> is a distinguished account of the entire epochal chapter in French experience by one of the most remarkable English historians of the nineteenth century.
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