25 Aug—Introduction: Discontent, Optimism, Family, and Revolution
Unit 1:
Europe in the century before the Revolution
(As we study the
background of the Revolution, be reading the short book by
William Doyle, A Short Introduction to the French
Revolution. Please be done with this reading by Friday,
October 1. I would take it in short bursts. Plan ahead.)
27 Aug—Kings and Battles, From the Thirty
Years War to the Seven Years War
Reading:
Watch this cool history graphic about the Habsburg Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tlWHDYKej0
and read this
brief info sheet on the Habsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire
which I use for History 143
Also, read two sections from the Wikipedia
entry on the Glorious Revolution: The Intro and the section
at the end entitled "Impact"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution#Assessment_and_historiography
30 Aug—Absolutism--Two Models: France and
England
Sep 1—More on Europe and the World:
Peasants, Kings, and War
Read Wikipedia on The Seven Years War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years'_War
Read the Wikipedia article on George III of the UK--just the
"Intro"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III
Sep 3—Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Society and
Culture
Tobacco, Coffee, Sugar, and Power and
Read Robert Darnton's classic essay "The Great
Cat Massacre." It is "Chapter 2 The Workers Revolt..."within his
book of essays, the pdf below. That is to say, just read chapter
2:
The Great Cat Massacre and Other
Essays
(pdf--give it a minute to load)
Sep 6—The Enlightenment
From Montesquieu, On the Spirit of the Laws,
1748
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/montesquieu-spirit.asp
From Condorcet, The Future Progress of the
Human Mind:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/condorcet-progress.asp
Short bio of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot:
https://oll.libertyfund.org/person/anne-robert-jacques-turgot
From Italian Enlightenment thinker, Cesare
Beccaria On Crime and Punishment, 1764:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/18beccaria.asp
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/014107680710000609
Sep 8—Rousseau
Read:
from The Social Contract, excerpts, only to and not
including Chapter III: Slavery
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/rousseau-contract2.asp
and this short essay on Rousseau and his comments on man being
born free.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/11/rousseau-man-born-free-social-contract
This is a good blog entry on Rousseau's ideas about motherhood and
nursing infants:
https://www.invitinghistory.com/2014/06/wet-nurses-and-breastfeeding-in-17th.html
Sep 10--The American Revolution:
Liberty and War
Four Documents on Lockean thought:
See this handout from the Bill of Rights Foundation, a study
comparing Locke's Second Treatise (1687) and the Declaration of
Independence:
https://resources.billofrightsinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/BAA-ELL-001-HandoutF.pdf
Virginia Declaration of Rights: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/virginia-declaration-of-rights
(read of it if you like, but you only have to read the first three
sections. Please read carefully.
Rights of Man of the Citizen:
https://constitutionnet.org/sites/default/files/declaration_of_the_rights_of_man_1789.pdf
Read Lynn Miller's short essay on the
relationship between George Washington and Lafayette
http://francerevisited.com/2009/08/my-dear-general-the-relationship-between-lafayette-and-washington/
Sep 13--Writing instructions
15 Sep—France on the Eve of the
Revolution
Begin to look over this chronology of the French Revolution which
I made for Hist 143:
Hist
143 Overview of the French Revolution
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Louise
Vigée-Lebrun
http://www.batguano.com/vlblsmemoirs.html
Please read from the beginning through Chapter 6)
17 Sep--Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and
Politics
And this piece I wrote some years ago for presentation at a
conference:
about the Duke of Orleans, who changed his name to Philippe Egalité (Philip Equality)
Unit 2—The French Revolution, From Outbreak to Napoleon
20 Sep—Estates General, Bastille, and the
Work of the Early Revolution: From Locke to Rousseau
From the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity website:
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/monarchy-falls
22 Sep—From Constitutional Monarchy to a Nation at War
Read the preface and chapter one of Lynn Hunt's great 2013
book, The Family Romance of the French Revolution:
The levée en masse:
24 Sep—The Terror: One Big Happy Family
About the
Guillotine
ppt without sound. Give it a moment to load.
Robespierre on state terror:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/robespierre-terror.asp
Anglo-Irish thinker Edmund Burke on Marie
Antoinette's execution:
https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/edmund-burke-execution-of-marie-antoinette-1793/
Also, read Wikipedia on the French Republican
Calendar introduced in 1792/3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
The violent war against Christianity:
https://www.iwp.edu/articles/2018/01/12/the-dechristianization-of-france-during-the-french-revolution/
Wikipedia on the dechristianization policies of the Revolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_during_the_French_Revolution
Wikipedia on the Cult of the Supreme Being
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being
29 Sep—French Opposition to the Revolution: The Vendée
Alpha History on the Vendee Revolt:
https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/vendee-uprising/
1 Oct—The Thermidor Uprising and the Directory
4 Oct—Beginning of Class: Objective Quiz I
After Quiz:
Foreign Responses to the French Revolution: London, Vienna, St.
Petersburg
Read this good summary
of Lafayette's life from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation:
https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/marquis-de-lafayette
We will look at this map in class, but peruse it briefly before
class:
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/8
6 Oct—Women in the Revolution I
Read Olympe des Gouges, Declaration
of the Rights of Women
Read A Vindication of the Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft
8 Oct—No class—Fall Break Day
Friday Oct. 5 at 5:00 pm, documentary
exercise is due via Turnitin
11 Oct—Exporting the Revolution: Haiti
Readings on the Haitian Revolution:
from Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/slavery-and-the-haitian-revolu
(please read the whole page and look at at
least six of the graphics and read at least six of the text links
to gain important insights into the Haitian Revolution as well as
Revolutionary/Napoleonic attitudes toward slavery and more.)
13 Oct—Exporting the Revolution: Poland and
Ireland
15 Oct—Objective Quiz II on the French
Revolution from 1794 to 1799
After the Quiz:
The United States and the French Revolution
18 Oct—Women and the Revolution II
http://www.batguano.com/vlblsmemoirs.html
Please read from Chapter 7 to the end)
And for class, we will go through this ppt
(without sound) pertaining to the family of Lafayette:
Mme.
Lafayette and Picpus
20 Oct—"Bliss was it in that dawn...” Wordsworth, Family, Romanticism, and the Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth
22 Oct—
Try to get the Intro and chapter 1 of the
Paul Johnson Napoleon biography read by today, though we will
not do much with it in class.
Unit 3: Napoleon
25 Oct—From Classicism to Romanticism:
David, Goethe, Beethoven, and Others
no reading
27 Oct—Napoleon Comes to Power Finish Intro and Chapter 1
of the Paul Johnson biography of Napoleon
and read
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/366
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/napoleonic-experience
1 Nov—Buonaparte Family Values
Read Chapter 2 of Paul Johnson, Napoleon: A Life
and
the Concordat with the Catholic Church
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/363
29 Oct—The Napoleonic Wars: From Italy to Egypt and Back
Reading: Chapter 3 of
https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty--equality--fraternity/item/276
And finally, some speeches of Napoleon to
his troops, very early in his career (1796)
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/nap1796.html
3 Nov—Class Discussion
Movie: Master and Commander (2003)
And in general, Britain and the Napoleonic Wars
5 Nov—Russia and Austria: Alexander I and Metternich
8 Nov—Napoleon: State And Empire
Read Chapter 4 of Paul Johnson's bio, Napoleon:
A Life
Also, read Wikipedia on the Napoleonic Code,
the codification of laws introduced by Napoleon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Code
Also, read this brief "catechism" of allegiance
to Napoleon for children:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1806catechism-napoleon.asp
(By Monday Nov. 8, watch one of these movies based on Jane
Austen novels:
Emma (1996) with Gwyneth Paltrow
Pride and Prejudice (2005) with Keira Knightley
10 Nov—Jane Austen and more.
Class Discussion of Jane Austen’s Persuasion (bring your
book to class). Reading quiz x 4.
12 Nov—Warfare: From Austerlitz to the Russian Invasion:
Highlighting Wellington and the Spanish Ulcer
Readings:
Listen to this moving version of the eighteenth century folk song, about enlisting in the British Army, which fought many times in Flanders, apart from the 1793 campaign involving Welsley/Wellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfdLJTvwBMc
Account of Charles O'Malley on the British Army's crossing of the
Douro River in northern Portugal:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1809wellington.asp
Wikipedia on Goya's The Disasters of War
series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disasters_of_War
15 Nov--From the Peninsular War to the
Russian Invasion
Read Paul Johnson's Napoleon bio, Chapter 5
Also, before class, review readings from Nov. 12.
17 Nov—The Hundred Days and Waterloo
Read Patrick Lynch's essay on this subject at History Collection:
https://historycollection.com/napoleons-hundred-days-legendary-french-commander-met-waterloo/2/
And read Chapter 6 of Paul Johnson's bio of Napoleon.
19 Nov—No Class
Thanksgiving Break
29 Nov—The Vienna Congress:
Settlement and Peace
Read Chapter 7 of the Paul Johnson bio of Napoleon.
1 Dec—Restoration Europe...And the World
no reading
3 Dec—The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Legacy
no reading