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The French Revolution and human rights

a brief documentary history
1996
Presents forty documents on human rights and citizenship written before and during the French Revolution.

A Vindication of the rights of men

1996
Eighteenth-century author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft challenges Edmund Burke's argument published in his "Reflections on the Revolution in France" where he supported hereditary succession, the alliance of church and state in order to maintain social order, and the notion that only men of property be in ultimate authority.

The glorious hussar

the best of the exploits and adventures of the Brigadier Gerard
1961
An account of the exploits of Etienne Gerard, officer of one of France's crack cavalry regiments during the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

A tale of two cities

1985
Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

The Silver Blade

2010
As the Revolution descends into the ferocious Reign of Terror, Yann, now an extraordinary practioner of magic, uses his skills to confound his enemies and help spirit refugees out of France, but the question of his true identity and the kidnapping of his true love, Sido, expose him to dangers that threaten to destroy him.

A tale of two cities

1949
Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

The coming of the French revolution

1988
A reprint of the 1947 text which examines the beginnings of the French Revolution, analyzing the composition and action of various social classes, and looking at how they combined, under the leadership of the aristocracy, to overthrow the Bourbon regime.

A tale of two cities

1992
The classic tale of a young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

Rights of man ; and, Common sense

1994
These two pamphlets are recognized as classic arguments in defense of the individuals's right to assert their freedom in the face of tyranny.

The red necklace

a story of the French Revolution
2008
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.

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