Prologue to Revolution: Life and Thought before 1789

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier	Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

• Life in the Ancien Regime: Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, Madame de Pompadour, Julie de Lespinasse, Voltaire
• Enlightenment: You will find a lot of sources on the Sourcebook page.
• Balloons: Wikipedia article, Engravings of Pilatre's balloon launch and crash, balloon history from the BBC
• Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI: Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, The Versailles Site

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The French Revolution and Napoleon

The Bastille, July 14, 1789	Emperor Napoleon

• Liberty Equality and Fraternity a great site with wonderful sources.
• Britannia, Europe in Retrospect a well researched chapter on the French Revolution
• Chronology of the French Revolution a basic chronology 1789-1795
• The History Guide a chapter on the French Revolution
• Revolution and After, Tragedies and Terror
• Modern History Sourcebook page on the French Revolution, look here for sample cahiers and for the Declaration of the Rights of Man

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Revolutions in Life and Thought: Industrialization, the Isms, and Art

• BBC History: The Industrial Revolution
• Spartacus Schoolnet on the Industrial Revolution
• The Modern History Sourcebook on Industrialization
• Examine and evaluate the 1833 Factory Act
• Power, Politics and Protest: The Growth of Political Rights in 19th Century Britain (includes a section on Peterloo)
• Misconceptions, Confusions, and Conflicts regarding Socialism, Communism and Capitalism
• Modern History Sourcebook on Romanticism

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The Crushing of Revolution: Vienna and its Aftermath 1815-1848

Klemens von Metternich	The Congress of Vienna

• Modern History Sourcebook, 1848
• The France of Victor Hugo

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Final Exam

• Review Sheet from 2008