This is a list of books I personally recommend (and have used) for research on the French Revolution.
Bansfield, Susan. The Rights of Man, The Reign of Terror. NY: Harper Collins, 1989.
Bernier, Oliver. Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood. NY: Anchor Books, 1989.
Bosher, J.F. The French Revolution. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988.
Brinton, Crane. A Decade of Revolution 1789-1799. NY: Harper & Row, 1934.
Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution. NY: Random House, Inc.
Cobb, Richard and Colin Jones, ed. Voices of the Revolution. Topsfield, MA: Salem House Publishers, 1988.
Davidson, Marshall. The Horizon Concise History of France. NY: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1971.
Dawson, Philip, ed. The French Revolution. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1967.
Hampson, Norman. The French Revolution. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1975.
Hew, Shirley. Cultures of the World: France. NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1992.
Hibbert, Christopher. The Days of the French Revolution. NY: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1981.
Krantz, Fredrick. History from Below. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Jordan, David P. The Revolutionary Career of Maximillian Robespierre. NY: Free Press, 1985.
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution from 1793 to 1799. Friguglietti, James and John Hall Stewart, Trans. NY: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Legrand, Jacques. Chronicle of the French Revolution. London: Chronicle Communications, Ltd., 1989.
McAree, Jess. “One Helluva Guy!” Focus April 1996: 74-77.
Otfinoski, Steven. Triumph and Terror: The French Revolution. NY: Facts on File, 1993.
Rudé, George. The Crowd in the French Revolution. NY: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Soboul, Albert. A Short History of the French Revolution 1789-1799. Symcox, Geoffrey, Trans. LA: University of California Press, 1965.
Spencer, Cornelia. The Song in the Streets: A Brief History of the French Revolution. NY: The John Day Company, 1960.
Stuller, Jay. “Cleanliness Has Only Recently Become A Virtue.” Smithsonian February 1991: 126+
Sydenham, M.J. The First French Republic 1792-1804. LA: University of California Press, 1973.
Get your own Free Home Page