Marxists Internet Archive: History Archive: France: French Revolution
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The French Revolution
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Principal Documents of the French Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789.
Decree on the Republican Calendar and
Babeuf’s Introduction to the Calendar, 1793
The Permanent Guillotine, revolutionary song 1792
The Marsellaise and
Patriotic Song for the Inauguration of the Busts of Marat and Lepeletier, 1793
Address of the Brave Sans-Culottes to the National Convention, November 1792
Decree of the National Convention on the Jacobins, 1793.
Report On the Incarcerated, Saint-Just 1793.
Le Vieux Cordelier, Camille Desmoulins 1793.
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The Archives of Writers of the French Revolution
Jean Meslier, 1729.
Julien La Mettrie, 1748.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1753-1762.
Diderot, 1760-1769.
Holbach, 1764-1769.
Anacharsis Cloots, 1792-3.
Joseph Chalier, 1792.
Jean-Paul Marat, 1789-93.
Jacques Hébert, 1790-1793.
Jacques Roux, 1793.
Robespierre, 1793-4.
Babeuf, 1796
Sylvain Maréchal, 1790-1799.
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See also: Revolutionary France Subject Archive
Includes analysis of French History and other writings such as philosophy and political economy.
French Materialism and Communism, Marx 1845
Marx's analysis of pre-Revolutionary French philosophy.
By E. Belfort Bax
Short History of the French Revolution for Socialists, 1890
Jean-Paul Marat. The People's Friend, 1900.Biographies
François Voltaire (1694-1778)
Julien La Mettrie, (1709-1751)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778)
Denis Diderot, (1713-1784)
Holbach, (1723-1789)
Jean-Paul Marat, (1743-1793)
Marquis de Marie Jean Condorcet, (1743-1794)
Joseph Chalier (1747-1793)
Maximillien Robespierre, (1758-1794)
Georges Jacques Danton, (1759-1794)
Gracchus Babeuf, (1760-1797)
Sylvain Maréchal, (1750-1803)