Introductory materials
- A Brief Introduction
- G. H. Lewes on the Gathering Storm
- Rousseau’s Le Contract Social as the “Bible of the Revolution”
- Kingsley’s Defence of Rousseau and the Philosophes
- A Victorian Assessment of the Accomplishments of the Constituent Assembly
- Famine in Paris and Mob Violence
- The French Revolution & Constitutional Monarchy
- The Isolation of Kings
- Charles Kingsley: “That purifying fire was needed”
- Against Centralization — the Example of Pre- and Post-Revolutionary France
- Timothy Mole on how the French Revolution prompted the Victorian Invention of Modernity
- Olivier Pinel's La Révolution française, a website containing a detailed chronology plus a list of orghanizations and all those executed in the Terror (in the French section of the Victorian Web)
Individuals
- Maximilien Robespierre — G. H. Lewes’s Final Judgment
- The Religion of Robespierre
- Robespierre's moral incorruptibility & the September affair
- Robespierre's changing views of royalty and the growth of his republicanism
- Robespierre’s views of universal education
- The Death of Marat and Robespierre's responsibility for the Terror
The French Revolution and Victorian Literature and Art
- Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution (homepage/sitemap)
- The French Revolution in the Popular Imagination: A Tale of Two Cities
- Images of the French Revolution from Various Editions of A Tale of Two Cities (1859-1910)
- Historical Novels about the French Revolution
Selected Online Texts and Related Resources
- Olivier Pinel's site containing a detailed chronology plus a list of all those executed in the Terror (in French)
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. HathiTrust. Accessed 19 January 2024.
- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason. Project Gutenberg. Accessed 19 January 2024.
- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man. Project Gutenberg. Accessed 19 January 2024.
Last modified 17 January 2024