French History, Politics, and Law
Special Collections holds French Revolutionary tracts as well as a large collection centering around the intersection between the history of French political institutions and the development of French law, but also includes many works on French and European history more generally. The majority of the collection dates from the 19th century, but it includes over 200 items from the 13th to 18th centuries.
How to Use the Collection
With a few exceptions, the collections can be accessed and requested through the library catalog. Finding aids for individual collections are linked on this website. Materials are available for use in the Special Collections Reading Room (room 401) during regular hours. Materials do not circulate.
Finding Aids for French History, Politics, and Law
Jacques Flach Collection.
Biographical Sketch GeoffroiJacques Flach(1846-1919) was born in Strasbourg, France, the capital of the Alsace region, on February 16, 1846. His…
Rare Books
The Rare Books Collection is the default designation for materials in Special Collections that are acquired as individual items. Like Special…
Related Exhibits
Selected Items
Encyclopédie. Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication.
11 volumes : illustrations (part double, part folded), charts ; 38 cm
Contents: Première section: Verrerie en bois, ou Petitie verrerie a…
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, In Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution
"In this powerful political treatise, Edmund Burke defends the arguments he made in his earlier work, Reflections on the Revolution in France,…
Letter of the Right Reverend Bishop of Leon
"Published in 1793, during one of the most turbulent years of the French Revolution, this letter by the Right Reverend Bishop of Léon—Jean-François de…
Académie des sciences (France) Mémoires “Observations des différents effets que produisent sur les végétaux les grandes gelées d'hiver et les petites gelées du printemps.”
Vols. for 1816- numbered also as 2. sér., t. 1-(varies, lacking on some vols.)
Some volumes published out of chronological order.
Includes…
Interesting Occurrences at the Temple during the Confinement of King Louis XVI
"Written by Jean-René de Cléry, the valet who served King Louis XVI during his imprisonment in the Temple, Interesting Occurrences at the Temple…
Système Social. : Ou Principes naturels de la morale et de la politique / Avec un examen de l'influence du gouvernement sur les moeurs.
3 volumes in 1. ; 21 cm
Reprint of London [i.e. Amsterdam] 1773 ed.