Primary Sources in Western European History

Guide to primary sources on the web from Fordham University.

Transcribed text of French Revolution pamphlets from Emory University. In French.

Translated text of documents from the French Revolution.

Access to more than 5,000 "Napoleonic" documents in the widest sense of the term (books, articles, engravings, etc), either scanned or transcribed in their entirety and available on the web, which are related to the First or Second Empires or published on those periods.

Pamphlets produced from 1779 to 1815. This collection of pamphlets documents the time leading up to the revolution through the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815).

Digital library of the Bibliotheque nationale de France, with over 2 million online documents.

Provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.

Documents international relations between France the the United States.

Portraits, images, texts, maps, songs, and other sources from 1799-1815.

Digital collection of pre-1850 and contemporary prints.

Showcases 83 satirical prints, or caricatures, from the Napoleonic Period, all giving political commentary on events of the period.

Digital collection of print caricatures and satires.

Digital images of political cartoons from the period of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars. A selection of 1400 prints has been made, of both British and Continental European publications, focusing on changing representations of Napoleon and on British fears of invasion during the period 1793-1805.

Guide to digital primary source collection about French history.