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HIS 311 The Era of the French Revolution

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Essays on Primary Sources

Sexual Politics and Public Order in Late Eighteenth-Century France: The Mémoires Secrets and the Correspondance Secrète – an essay on the political culture role of “secret memoirs”

The Longest-Enduring Pompadour Hoax: Senac de Meilhan and the Journal de Madame du Hausset – an essay contesting the authenticity of this primary source which is one of the ones made available her

Recent Memoirs of the French Directory – an essay on the reasons for the amount of time it took for the Memoirs of Barras, which is one of the sources available here, to finally be published, from the death of Barras in 1829 to their publication in 1896.