Catherine de Medici Queen of France
List of online resources (Robert Wilde)
Catherine d’Medici, Queen of France
Short biography and bibliography (Prof Pavlac’s Women’s History Resources)
Domestic state violence: repression from the Croquants to the Commune
seminar paper by Howard G Brown
Institute of Historical Research e-seminars (1996-98, exact date unknown)
Early Modern France
Useful bibliography (primarily aimed at re-enactors) (Le Poulet Gauche)
Early Modern French Women Writers
Collection of texts by French women writers (University of Minnesota)
French Revolution
Primary sources online and other web resources (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)
The French Revolution in British Newspapers
A small but scintillating online archive of reactions to ‘Unspeakable Events’ across the Channel (Alan Liu)
French Revolution
Useful listings of resources (Stephanie Marra, WWW-VL)
The French Revolution: Apocalyptic Expectations
Focuses on the impact of the French Revolution on radical English writers (Norton Topics Online)
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
A high quality site numbering Lynn Hunt and Jack Censer among its authors; as well as articles, it includes images, texts (translated into English), maps, songs, timelines, glossary. The articles are well written, and it looks good too (CUNY/George Mason University collaboration)
French Revolution: What is the Third Estate?
An online exhibit of books, manuscripts, etc relating to the French Revolution (University of Maryland Libraries)
French Revolutionary Pamphlets
For those who can read French, digitised versions of three rare pamphlets (Mark Olsen) (Wayback)
Parlements and political crisis in France under Louis XV: The Besancon Affair, 1757-1761
article by Julian Swann (Birkbeck ePrints)
From Historical Journal, 37:4 (1994)
The Path to Royal Absolutism
From an online exhibit on French culture, tracing the political and cultural history of France from the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
Politics: Louis XV
Book extract: chapter by Julian Swann (Birkbeck College ePrints)
in: Old regime France 1648 -1788 (Oxford UP, 2001)
Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900)
digital resource relating to the history of copyright in five jurisdictions (France, Germany, Italy, the UK and US) for the period up to 1900 (DSpace@Cambridge)
Recent work on French rural history
historiographical review article by Peter Jones (U. Birmingham ePrints)
From Historical Journal, 46:4 (2003)
The Rise and Fall of Absolute Monarchy
Part of an online exhibit on French culture, covers the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to Enlightenment and Revolution (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
Social Conditions in 17th-century France
Extracts from primary sources (translated into English) (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)
A Survey of French Opera (1670-1770)
The development (and controversies) of opera in Paris in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (François R Velde)
The French Revolution at the Grassroots: A Critical Bibliography
a bibliography of scholarly work on villages, towns and rural areas during the Revolutionary period (Peter H. Amann)
The state and political culture
Book extract: chapter by Julian Swann (Birkbeck ePrints)
in Old regime France 1648 -1788 (Oxford UP, 2001)
Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris
essay by Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck ePrints)
chapter in The place of the dead: death and remembrance in late medieval and early modern Europe (Cambridge UP, 2000)
Words and deeds of madness in eighteenth-century France
Bilingual (French and English) site, containing excerpts from legal records - petitions, interviews and inquiries into individual cases - of the appointment of a guardian to look after the insane or mentally impaired (Laurent Cartayrade)
(Currently unavailable, Jan 2006)
