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David Hilton

Periodicals and Pamphlets of the French Revolution of 1848 - 5 views

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    "The Center for Research Libraries, the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFL Project, (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) have cooperated on a project to digitize pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848 held by CRL as a test of electronic distribution of archive material via internet.
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    Digitised pamphlets from the period of the French Revolution. From what I can tell they're all in French. C'est la vie (I probably misspelt that).
David Hilton

French Revolution Pamphlets - 15 views

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    The Ball State University Libraries Digital Media Repository Collections in Indiana (USA) offers a French Revolution series of pamphlets which is "ranging from 1779 to 1815. Although the French Revolution happened in the decade ranging from 1789 to 1799, this collection of pamphlets documents the time leading up to the revolution through the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).
anonymous

The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme - 3 views

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    Educational Materials Please do not hesitate to request information material such as: - Study Guide "The Last Flight of Petr Ginz" (available in English, French and Spanish) - Women and the Holocaust educational DVD and study guide (available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese (subtitles)) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume I (available in all UN official languages) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume II (available in English) - Footprints for Hope educational video DVD (available in all UN official languages (subtitles)) - Posters (available in English, French, Spanish and Russian) - Commemorative DVD (highlighting the first universal observance of the International Day of Commemoration on memory of the victims of the holocaust
Justen Eason

The French Revolution: "Those who have and those who have not" - 4 views

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    meant for a 5th grade room, but the simulation and use of Tale of Two cities could be adapted for an older classroom...
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    French Revolution Lesson Plan: "Those who have and those who have not"
Justen Eason

French Revolution - 8 views

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    History of the French Revolution
Justen Eason

Europe in Retropsect: The French Revolution - Phases of the Revolution - 5 views

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    Information on the ideology of the French Revolution.
Justen Eason

The French Revolution & Napoleon Lesson Plans - 19 views

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    French Revolution
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    Great vast wonderful links, and fabulous free lesson plans - thank you so much for sharing them!
Bob Maloy

Imaging the French Revolution: Depictions of the French Revolutionary Crowd - 20 views

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    A digital history site that includes images and historical essays on crowds and crowd violence during the French Revolution, developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
Bob Maloy

1759: From the Warpath to the Plains of Abraham - 4 views

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    A game from the Virtual Museum of Canada, explores the French and Indian War from the standpoint of British, French, Canadian and Native American perspectives.
Justen Eason

PBS - Napoleon: Politics in Napoleon's Time - 6 views

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    French Revolution Content
David Hilton

Public Databases | The ARTFL Project - 2 views

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    Collections of French language resources and French sources.
Aaron Shaw

Popular: Did Marie-Antoinette really say "Let them eat cake"? - 10 views

  • in fact, Marie-Antoinette was a generous patron of charity and other members of the royal family were often embarrassed or irritated by her habit of bursting into tears when she heard of the plight of the suffering poor. There's also a problem with dates. During Louis the Sixteenth's time as king, there was only one case of bread shortages in Paris and that was shortly after his coronation. Marie-Antoinette was eighteen at the time and when she heard about the people's unhappiness at the food situation, she wrote a letter about it back to her mother in Austria, in which she said, "We are more obliged than ever to work for the people's happiness. The King seems to understand this truth; as for myself, I know that in my whole life (even if I live for a hundred years) I shall never forget". Marie-Antoinette's personality therefore seems to have been the exact opposite of someone who would joke about the starving poor.
  • The story of a princess joking "let them eat cake" had actually been told many years before Marie-Antoinette ever arrived in France, as a young princess of fourteen in 1770. Her brother-in-law, the Count of Provence, who hated her, later said that he heard the story as a child, long before his brother ever married Marie-Antoinette. The count claimed that the version he heard was that the woman who made the comment had been his great-great-great grandmother, Maria-Teresa of Spain, who advised peasants to eat pie crust (or brioche) during bread shortages. A French socialite, the Countess of Boigne, said she'd heard that it had been Louis the Sixteenth's bitter aunt, Princess Victoria, and the great philosopher, Rousseau, wrote that he had heard the "let them eat cake" story about an anonymous great princess. Rousseau wrote this story in 1737 - eighteen years before Marie-Antoinette was even born!
    • Aaron Shaw
       
      This is quite interesting. Many of my AP Euro students enjoy thinking it was the queen. This will give them something to "chew" on, and allow for a teachable moment. As another great Philosophe suggested we should accept nothing as truth except our own existance.
  • Others think that because the French Revolution was able to dress itself up as the force that brought freedom and equality to Europe, it had to justify its many acts of violence and terror. Executing Marie-Antoinette at the age of thirty-seven and leaving her two children as shivering, heart-broken orphans in the terrifying Temple prison, suggested that the Revolution was a lot more complicated than its supporters like to claim. However, if Marie-Antoinette is painted as stupid, deluded, out-of-touch, spoiled and selfish, then we're likely to feel a lot less pity when it comes to studying her death. If that was the republicans' intention, then they did a very good job. Two hundred years later and the poor woman is still stuck with a terrible reputation, and a catchphrase, that she certainly doesn't deserve.
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    As a student and teacher of, among other things, propaganda and censorship, I think this is a great example for students to play with in thinking about how 'truth' gets established, politically and historically. In discussing nationalism I often talk about the importance of political myth in establishing identities, and here is a powerful example of a myth that became hegemonic.
International School of Central Switzerland

Carte interactive des lieux d'histoire de France - La Maison de l'histoire de France - 3 views

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    CARTE INTERACTIVE DES LIEUX D'HISTOIRE ET DE MÉMOIRE - prehistory, antiquity, mittle ages, modern times, contemporary history.  In French
HistoryGrl14 .

Internet History Sourcebooks - 11 views

  • virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible
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    Robespierre's discussion on the use of Terror in the French Revolution. Gives a little background, then parts of his speech
Daniel Bernsen

Constitution de la Corse - Wikisource - 0 views

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    The first modern, democratic Constitution (1755) in French translation
David Hilton

Digital Scriptorium - 0 views

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    Another site with scanned images of manuscripts, most of them I think in Latin or medieval French or Italian or Old English. OK, I didn't check. They look cool, though.
Deven Black

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 - 0 views

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    A rich interactive website which presents info on Raid on Deerfield from different viewpoints: British; French; Mohawk; Huron; and Wobanaki.
David Hilton

EOS (Electronic Open Stacks) - 3 views

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    An extensive collection of images on US, French & Indian history along with Classical music.
spoutnik ogik

Great archeological sites - 11 views

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    a map-collection of great archeological sites in France. Interactive. Published by french government
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