French history and culture in Haverford Special Collections (HC)

Translation of title: "Child of the Revolution: or, A few scenes from a great drama." Written by M. Saint-Alphonse in 1819, this work of fiction is comprised of four volumes.

Written in 1796 by Helen Maria Williams, this book discusses the politics of the French Revolution.

Translation of title: "Letter from an American Quaker to a French republican, on the grand affair of France and the entire world." Written by Benjamin P. in 1792 as a sort of discussion of the progression and reasoning for the French Revolution.

Translation of title: "Memoir of a witness of the Revolution, or Journal of the facts that took place under our eyes, and that prepared and fixed the French Constitution: posthumous work." This book features letters and discussion by Jean Sylvain Bailly regarding the French Revolution.

"defence of the French Revolution and its English admirers, against the accusations of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke : including some strictures on the late production of Mons. de Calonne"
By James Mackintosh. 1792.
4th edition, with additions.

By Jacques Necker.
Discusses constitutional law and executive power.

By Jean Jacques Calet.
London : Printed by W. Browne and J. Warren, 22, Poppins Court, and sold for the author, by C. Stalker, Stationers-Court, Ludgate-Street ; J. Walter, Piccadilly ; and all the Booksellers in town and country, 1789.

Faits aux élèves de l'Ecole de Mars, depuis le 5 fructidor jusqu'au 13 vendémiaire, an troisième de la Rèpublique.
By the Committee on Public Safety.
Paris, 1792

Louis-Pierre Manuel.
"et particuliérement du comte de Paradès, chargé par le gouvernement d'un expédition secrette sur Plimouth, &c. &c. de Monsieur Linguet, &c. & c ."
A Paris: Chez Desenne … 1790.

Published in 1847.

Translation of title: "Christian counsel, according to the spirit of charity and gentleness: recommended by a feeling of fraternal love." A 1794 French translation of an essay by Richard Ashby regarding the imprisonment and mistreatment of prisoners from the French Revolution.

Translation of title: "Historical and critical study of Quakerism." Written by Édouard Lods in 1857, this work discusses Quaker theology and was written under the College of Protestant Theology of Strasbourg as a senior thesis project.

Written by the French Society of Friends.

Translation of title: "Journal of a Quaker from our time (1893-1962): The life behind oneself." Written by Henry van Elten and published in 1964, this work deals with Quakerism and the issue of imprisonment.

Translation of title: "The French Quakers: a historic study." This book was written in 1898 by Edmond Jaulmes and discusses the history of Quakerism throughout France.

Written between 1843 and 1849. Entries describe family news, Protestant and Catholic beliefs, and her work at a Friend's school in France.

Issued by the French Minister of the Interior, this topographical map from 1895 consists of 8 separate maps of various regions in France.

Translation of title: "Street map for car drivers and bicyclists- around Paris, northeast section." Mounted on cloth and published in 1917.

Translation of title: "Chateaux in the Loire Valley from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries: drawn according to nature and lithographs." Published in two volumes in 1861, this work by Victor Petit deals with Renaissance architecture of the castles, or chateaux, of the Loire Valley in France.

Translation of title: "Children's Encyclopedia, or new elementary summary of science and the arts." Compiled by Jacques-Henri Tardieu, this book was published in 1802 and presents a basic encyclopedia of the sciences and the arts for young children, presented in two volumes with illustrations and maps.

Published in 2003 and contains 39 photographs by Eugène Atget of various trees in the park at Saint-Cloud in Paris.

This book is a unique collection of photography by Paul Strand with commentary and notes by Claude Roy. The photographs primarily feature the French countryside. Published in 1952.

Written as a presentation of French feminine style throughout time, this book was written by Jean Baptisted Marie Augustin Challamel and was published in 1882. There are illustrations included.

Translation of title: "Civil laws in their natural order." This work was written by Jean Domat and published in 1694. It discusses civil and administrative laws in France and general sociopolitical theory.

Translation of title: "Paris through the ages: successive aspects of the monuments and historic neighborhoods of Paris, since the 13th century until modern day." Written by Théodore Hoffbauer in 1875, this book was written in two volumes and has illustrations relating to Parisian architecture and history.

Written in 1803 by Louis Pierre Baltard, this work discusses the architecture of various prominent monuments in Paris.

Translation of title: "A century of feminine passions, 1794-1894: four hundred outfits reproduced in color based on authentic documents." Contains illustrations of French fashions from 1794-1894.

A Paris : Chez Jean Mariette, 1713.
The theory and practice of gardening, including many illustrations.