Antraigues, Emmanuel-Henri-Louis Alexandre de Launay, comte d', 1753-1812. French Revolution collection, 1668-1868 (bulk 1780-1820).
Title:
French Revolution collection, 1668-1868 (bulk 1780-1820).
Books, pamphlets, graphic materials, periodicals, broadsides, and manuscripts providing comprehensive documentation of the political, economic, and social aspects of the French Revolution, with substantial additional material on the "ancien régime," the Napoleonic period, and the Restoration. Included are government documents such as laws, decrees, minutes of meetings, judicial proceedings, and official correspondence; memoirs, histories, biographies, speeches, polemics, almanacs, catechisms, satires, acrostics, plays, comic operas, dialogues, poems, "vaudevilles," "calendriers," and works written in dialect; songs with and without musical notation; and engravings, etchings, and some lithographs, including portraits, caricatures, and illustrations. The collection is strongest in the areas of economy and finance, the Revolutionary government, and Revolutionary culture, with unusual strength in popular culture. Topics covered in the area of economy and finance include agriculture, with material on the physiocrats, transport and customs, food, and prices; paper currency reform, with much material on the "assignats," and some on counterfeiting; the "biens nationaux"; and taxation, including the clerical tax, seigneurial dues, aristocratic privileges, the "cahiers de doléances," and the reforms of the night of August 4, 1789. Materials on the Revolutionary government include laws and other documents from the Estates General, the National Assemblies, the National Convention, and other bodies at the national, "département," and local levels, including all the various constitutions drawn up in the course of the Revolution, as well as documents on poor relief, divorce, representation, suffrage, despotism, conspiracies, accusations, denunciations, the monarchy, and the nobility. Also included are materials on Catholicism, including the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, the "théophilanthropes," and non-juring clergy; and on political culture, including the impact of the Enlightenment, popular culture, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Bastille, martyrs and oaths, revolutionary festivals, and education. Other topics covered include political rights, including the political clubs, the Third Estate, freedom of the press, and detention; France's colonies, including the slavery question; war and foreign affairs, including material on the navy and especially the army; and events in the Vendée and Toulon, with material on royalists and emigrés. Local government materials focus especially on Paris, Toulon, and Strasbourg. Authors and correspondents include Emmanuel-Henri-Louis Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues; Gracchus Babeuf, Jean Sylvain Bailly, B. Barère, Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Joseph Antoine Joachim Cérutti, Georges Jacques Danton, Pierre-Claude-François Daunou, Jacques Louis David, Camille Desmoulins, Pierre Toussaint Durand de Maillane, Jean-Jacques Eprémesnil, Claude Fauchet, Jacques-René Hébert, the marquis de Lafayette, Joseph Lakanal, Laurent Lecointre, Pierre-Victor Malouet; Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau; the vicomte de Mirabeau, Jacques Necker, Jérôme Pétion, Louis Marie Prudhomme, Jean-Paul Rabaut, Maximilien Robespierre, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, and many lesser-known but significant individuals.
ArchivalResource:
451 linear ft.
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