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Lyons, Martyn. Napoléon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, pp. 1-43, 94-300.
Mason, Laura, and Tracy Rizzo, eds. The French Revolution: A Document Collection. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999, pp. 1-156, 167-208, 214-243, 310-327, 340-347.
Popkin, Jeremy D. A Short History of the French Revolution. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002, pp. 1-108.
Ravel, Jeffrey S. The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999, pp. 1-66, 133-227.

Additional Readings

Amalvi, Christian. "Bastille Day: From Dies Irae to Holiday." In Realms of Memory. Under the direction of Pierre Nora. Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998, pp. 117-59.
Dayan, Joan. Haiti, History, and the Gods. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp. 143-186.
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb. Addresses to the German Nation. Translated by R.F. Jones and G.H. Turnbull. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Forrest, Alan. "The Local Politics of Repression." In The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. Vol. 4: The Terror. Edited by Keith Michael Baker. Oxford: Pergamon, 1994, pp. 81-98.
Furet, François. "Terror." In A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Edited by François Furet and Mona Ozouf. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 137-150.
Furet, François. "Napoléon Bonaparte." In A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Edited by François Furet and Mona Ozouf. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 273-286.
Hunt, Lynn. "Male Virtue and Republican Motherhood." In The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. Vol. 4: The Terror. Edited by Keith Michael Baker. Oxford: Pergamon, 1994, pp. 195-208.
Kaplan, Steven. Farewell Revolution. Disputed Legacies, 1789-1989. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 1-12, 302-313.
Keegan, John. The Face of Battle. New York: Viking Press, 1976, pp. 117-203.
Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution. Vol. 2. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964, pp. 425-56.
Tackett, Timothy. "The Constituent Assembly and the Terror." In The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. Vol. 4: The Terror. Edited by Keith Michael Baker. Oxford: Pergamon, 1994, pp. 39-54.
Walzer, Michael. Regicide and Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992, pp. 69-89, 219-36.

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