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Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794. Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified recipient, 1794 May 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified recipient, 1794 May 20.

Concerning the mistaken arrest of Le Bas, contrary to the orders of the Comité.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270482223 View

David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825. Collection of documents and graphic materials related to Maximilien Robespierre : France, 1792-1794.

Title: Collection of documents and graphic materials related to Maximilien Robespierre : France, 1792-1794.

Collection consists of manuscript fragments by Robespierre and Saint-Just, 3 autograph letters signed, and an original pencil sketch of Robespierre attributed to Jacques-Louis David. Items in this collection have been described individually in six separate catalog records (MA 1059.1-6); see related records for more information.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (6 items), bound ; 36.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270655469 View

Antraigues, Emmanuel-Henri-Louis Alexandre de Launay, comte d', 1753-1812. French Revolution era pamphlets, 1789-1799 (bulk).

Title: French Revolution era pamphlets, 1789-1799 (bulk).

Essays, laws, speeches, reports, and other documents, as well as satires, songs, poems, fiction, plays, and other popular literature, concerning political, economic, and social aspects of the French Revolution period. Subject areas covered include economy and finance, revolutionary government, revolutionary culture, and the Ancien Régime. Topics covered in the area of economy and finance include agriculture, paper currency reform, customs, tolls, weights and measures, tontines, and counterfeiting. Materials on Revolutionary government deal with topics such as the monarchy, the "cahiers de doléances," privileges of the clergy and nobility, the Bastille, democracy, representation, successive constitutions, freedom of the press, the Terror, popular violence, "journées," émigrés, nonjuring clergy, the Vendée, and French government bodies such as the National Assembly, National Convention, Council of Five Hundred, and Council of Ancients. Pamphlets on revolutionary culture include materials on revolutionary martyrs, revolutionary festivals, "citoyenneté," the calendar, the issue of copyright, and popular views of Marie Antoinette. Pamphlets on the Ancien Régime cover economic topics such as agriculture, and political topics such as the monarchy, the Parlements, Catholicism, and Jansenism and Jesuits. Authors represented include the Comte d'Antraigues, Bertrand Barère, Antoine Barnave, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Lazare Carnot, Anacharsis Cloots, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Georges Jacques Danton, Jacques Louis David, Camille Desmoulins, Henri Grégoire, Jacques-René Hébert, Joseph Lakanal, Jean-Baptiste-Robert Lindet, Jean Paul Marat, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti comte de Mirabeau, Louis Marie Prudhomme, Jean-Paul Rabaut, Maximilien Robespierre, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target, and many other significant individuals.

ArchivalResource: ca. 7,500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63937251 View

Collin d'Harleville, M. (Jean François), 1755-1806. Plays of the French Revolution period, 1781-1802 (bulk 1789-1799).

Title: Plays of the French Revolution period, 1781-1802 (bulk 1789-1799).

Consists mainly of plays on political topics, many of them comedies, some of them anonymous. Topics include Jacques Necker, divorce, criticism of the government, and dramatizations of recent events such as the fall of the Bastille or the taking of Toulon from the royalists in December 1793. Some comedies include songs. Authors represented include Jean François Collin d'Harleville, Jean Louis Laya, and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois.

ArchivalResource: ca. 33 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63937233 View

Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Title: Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Correspondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1986 ADDITION: One letter from James Monroe and two from Theodore Roosevelt. 1987 ADDITION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs dealing with American and English literature, and American and French history during the era of the Revolutions. Included are letters from Erskine Caldwell, Will Durant, Howard Fast, Rachel Field, Emil Ludwig. Edwin Markham, Christopher Morley, and John Howard Payne; manuscripts of John Drinkwater, Felicia Hemans, Romain Rolland, Louis Untermeyer, and Tennessee Williams; and documents of James Duane, Joseph Hopkinson, and Sir Walter Scott. 1988 ADDITION: Correspondence and documents dealing with American and English history during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are letters from Dubo and Demante de Millot (about the French fleet in Haiti in 1780), U.S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robespierre, W.H. Seward, and Daniel Waldo; and documents of the Sultan of Borneo and James Madison. There are also photographs taken by Lee David Hamilton of Central Park and of Polaris submarines. 1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents on American history and literature, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. There are letters and some manuscripts to the editor of ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE and LYRA MYSTICA dating from the 1920s and the 1930s; letters and autographs of early 20th century Americans and New York and Connecticut colonial documents signed by Isaac Huntington, Jacob Remer, and Thomas Dongon. Also included are photographs of foreign travels in a Packard motorcar, 1903-1904, and a photographic travelogue (photographs taken by Henry C. Rem) of the first European motorcar tour by Americans in a Packard, 1907-1910. 1990 ADDITION: Documents dealing with finance and land sales in New York from 1789 to 1879. There are land deeds resulting from the dispersal of the assets of John Lamb at the end of the 1790s, mortgage bonds, insurance policies, and papers about the insurance claims of Ebenezer Stevens for shipping seized by France in 1808. There is also a letter in rebus form, written in 1734. 1992 ADDITION: Three letters from Richard Le Gallienne to Margot Holmes, his photograph signed and inscribed to her, and a Berenice Abbott photograph have been added. 1997 ADDITION: Naval commission of Richard Morice as Commander of H.M.S. Tarrier.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (5 boxes, several oversized items)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078402/ View