The Revolution Unfolds
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1789
Decrees of 4 August 1789
Proposal concerning the colonies
(March 1790)
The Revolution and Slavery:
Excerpts from the Radical Newspaper,
Les Révolutions de Paris
(Sept.-Oct. 1790)
Clubs for the People
(Dec. 1790)
National Assembly Debate on Clubs
(Sept. 1791)
Address to the King Concerning Émigrés
Louis-Marie Prudhomme,
On the Influence of the Revolution on Women
(1791)
The Anglo-American Response
Edmund Burke,
"Reflections on the Revolution in France"
(1790, excerpts)
Thomas Paine,
The Rights of Man
(1791, excerpts)
The Terror
Women at the Cordeliers Club
(19 May 1793)
Report on Counter-Revolution in the Vendee
(Aug. 1793)
The Law of Suspects
(Sept. 1793)
The Maximum
(Sept. 1793)
Attempt to ban women's clubs
(Oct. 1793)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen in 1793
(from the Constitution of Year I, suspended in October due to war)
Camille Desmoulins,
"Revolution Devours Its Own"
(Dec. 1793)
Law of 22 Prairial, Year II
(10 June 1794)
Debate on the Law of 22 Prairial
(1794)
Maximilien Robespierre,
"On the Principles of Political Morality"
(1794, excerpts)
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Terror and Virture
(1794)