1789-1799, revolution

Presents forty documents on human rights and citizenship written before and during the French Revolution.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.