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Internet Modern History Sourcebook

19th Century France

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Contents

• France
  • The Restoration
  • The July Monarchy, 1831-1848
  • 1848
  • The Second Empire
  • The Franco-Prussian War and the Commune
  • The Third Republic
• French Literature

France

• WEB La Bibliotheque Electronique De Lisieux [Internet Archive backup here]
  French texts, in French. Mostly 19th century.
• WEB Legifrance: French Legal Texts [French Government]
• WEB Gallica – The BnF digital library, English entrance page [BnF]
  Gallica at the Bibliothèque nationale de France has more than 6 million digitized materials of various types: books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, cartoons, drawings, prints, posters, maps, manuscripts, antique coins, scores, theater costumes and sets, audio and video materials.
• Wikipedia: France in the Long Nineteenth Century
  Chronology and maps.
• Wikipedia: French Colonial Empire
• The Restoration
  • Wikipedia: Bourbon Restoration 1814-1830
  • Wikipedia: Paris during the Bourbon Restoration
    With excellent illustrations.
  • The Bourbon Restoration, 1814-1830: Translations of primary source documents [At PDX] [Internet Archive version here]
    The Constitutional Charter of June 4, 1814: Preamble drafted by Louis XVIII; Gabriel Bourbon-Leblanc: The ultra-royalists, the independents and the "ministériels" before the tribunal of public opinion (Paris, 1817)
  • Charles X: The July Ordinances 1830 [At PDX] [Internet Archive version here]
  • YouTube: Rossini, Il viaggio a Reims ( The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Fleur-de-lis ) [Note YouTube links are not always very stable. If this fails, simply search for the title on YouTube]
    Rossini's opera was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of French King Charles X in Reims in 1825.t its premiere, it was sung by the greatest voices of the day. Since the opera was written for a specific occasion, with a plot about European aristocrats, officers – and one poetess – en route to join in the French coronation festivities that the opera itself was composed for, Rossini never intended it to have a life beyond a few performances in Paris.
• The July Monarchy, 1831-1848
  • Documents on the July Monarchy [At PDX] [Internet Archive version here]
  • The French Constitution, 1830 [At this Site]
  • François Guizot (1787-1874): Condition of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848 [At this Site]
  • Alexander Ledru-Rollin: Speech to the Electors of Sarthe, 1841 [At this Site]
    An attack on the July Monarchy of Louis Philippe.
• 1848
  • Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): History of the Revolution of 1848 in France  [At this Site]
  • Percy B. St. John: The French Revolution in 1848 [At this Site]
• The Second Empire
  • Louis Napoleon: Excerpts from Speeches 1851 and 1852 [At PDX] [Internet Archive version here]
  • Léon Gambetta (1838-82): The Belleville Manifesto, 1869 [At this Site]
  • Wikipedia: Baron Haussman's Renovation of Paris
• The Franco-Prussian War and the Commune
  • Original and Edited Versions of the Ems Dispatch July 13, 1870 [At GHDI] + PDF version [Internet Archive version here]
  • A War Correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870 [At this Site]
  • WEB The Paris Commune - Archive and Documents [At Marxists]
  • Wikipedia: The Paris Commune
  • Chronology of the Civil War in France, 1871, [At Marxists.org]
  • First Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Franco-Prussian War, 1870, [At Marxists.org][Full Text]
  • Second Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Franco-Prussian War, 1870, [At Marxists.org][Full Text]
  • Address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Civil War in France, 1871,[At Marxists.org][Full Text]
  • John Leighton: One Day Under the Paris Commune, 1871 [At this Site]
  • Eugène Edine Pottier: The Internationale, June 1871
    The Lyrics were originally intended to be sung to the tune of "La Marseillaise" .The melody to which it is usually sung was composed in 1888 by Pierre De Geyter for the choir "La Lyre des travailleurs" of the French Worker's Party.
  • YouTube: The Internationale in French.
• The Third Republic
  • Law on Associations of 1 July 1901, in French [At Wikipedia.fr]].
  • Law on the Separation of Churches and State. 9 Dec 1905 [Wikipedia]
  • Wikipedia: Sacré-Cœur, Paris

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French Literature

• Émile Zola: Germinal, 1885 Translated by Havelock Ellis (1894), full text [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive backup here]
  See also Paul Brian's Study Guide [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]

NOTES:

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