Bibliography

Below are works I’ve consulted so far while writing The Siècle. Note that this is not a complete list of works I intend to consult or that I own, only those that I have read so far. This will be updated as my research continues.

Nonfiction (principal secondary sources)

• Austin, Paul Britten. 1815: The Return of Napoleon. Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2002.
• Beck, Thomas D. French Legislators 1800-1834: A Study in Quantitative History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
• Bierman, John. Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
• Blanchard, Raoul and Millicent Todd. Geography of France. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1919.
• Boucheron, Patrick, and Stéphane Gerson, eds. France in the World: A New Global History. New York: Other Press, 2019.
• Brown, Frederick. For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
• Butterworth, Alex. The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists & Secret Agents. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
• Campbell, Peter. French Electoral Systems and Elections 1789-1957. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1958.
• Caramani, Daniele. Elections in Western Europe since 1815: Electoral Results by Constituencies. London: Macmillan Reference Ltd., 2000.
• Carlisle, Robert B. The Proffered Crown: Saint-Simonianism and the Doctrine of Hope. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
• Caron, François. An Economic History of Modern France. Translated by Barbara Bray. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
• Collins, Irene. The Government and the Newspaper Press in France, 1814-1881. London: Oxford University Press, 1959.
• Corbin, Alain. The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
• Davidson, Denise Z. France After Revolution: Urban Life, Gender and the New Social Order. Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2007.
• De Bertier de Sauvigny, Guillaume. The Bourbon Restoration. Translated by Lynn M. Case. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966.
• Evans, Richard J. The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914. New York: Penguin Books, 2016.
• Haynes, Christine. Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France After Napoleon. Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2018.
• Hazareesingh, Sudhir. The Legend of Napoleon. London: Granta Books, 2004.
• Jardin, André, and André-Jean Tudesq. Restoration & Reaction, 1815-1848. Translated by Elborg Forster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
• Mansel, Philip. The Court of France: 1789-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Mansel, Philip. Louis XVIII. Rev. ed. Phoenix Mill: Sutton, 1999.
• Mansel, Philip. Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814-1852. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
• May, Arthur. The Age of Metternich. Holt, 1933.
• McPhee, Peter. A Social History of France: 1789-1914. 2nd ed. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• Morton, James. The First Detective: The Life and Revolutionary Times of Vidocq: Criminal, Spy, and Private Eye. New York: The Overlook Press, 2011.
• Neely, Sylvia. Lafayette and the Liberal Ideal, 1814-1824: Politics and Conspiracy in an Age of Reaction. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
• Price, Munro. The Perilous Crown: France between Revolutions. London: Macmillan, 2007.
• Post, John Dexter. The Last Great Subsistence Crisis in the Western World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
• Rapport, Mike. 1848: Year of Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
• Rémond, René. The Right Wing in France: From 1815 to de Gaulle. 2nd American ed. Translated by James M. Laux. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969.
• Robb, Graham. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.
• Roberts, Andrew. Napoleon: A Life. New York: Viking Penguin, 2014.
• Skuy, David. Assassination, Politics and Miracles: France and the Royalist Reaction of 1820. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.
• Spang, Rebecca L. The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2000.
• Tombs, Robert. France 1814-1914. Longman History of France. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996.
• Weber, Eugen. Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976.
• Weiner, Margery. The French Exiles: 1789-1815. London: John Murray, 1960.
• Zamoyski, Adam. Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848. New York: Basic Books, 2015.

Nonfiction (indirect sources)

• Macdonald, James. A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
• Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.

Almanacs and other statistical compilations

• De La Tynna, J. and S. Bottin. Almanach du Commerce de Paris, des Départemens de la France, et des Principales Villes du Monde. Paris: L’Imprimerie de J. Smith, 1820.
• De Saint-Julien, A. and G. Bienaymé. Histoire des droits d’entrée & d’octroi à Paris. Paris: Société d’Imprimerie et Librairie administrative et des Chemins de fer, 1887.
• Hugo, Abel. France Pittoresque […]. Vols. 1, 2 and 3. Paris: Imprimerie et Fonderie de Rignoux et ce, 1835.
• MacGregor, John. Commercial Statistics: A Digest of the Productive Resources, Commercial Legislation, Customs Tariffs […] of All Nations.. Vol. 1. London: Charles Knight & Co., Ludgate Street, 1844.
• Mitchell, B.R., ed. European Historical Statistics: 1750-1975. 2nd Rev. Ed. London: The MacMillan Press Ltd, 1981.
• Recherches statistiques sur la ville de Paris et le département de la Seine […].. Paris: L’Imprimerie Royale, 1823.

Primary sources

• Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite. Memorial […] to His Most Christian Majesty, Louis XVIII […]. Translated by Lewis Goldsmith.
• De Chateaubriand, François-René. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb. Translated by Robert Baldick. London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1961. Reprint, London: Penguin Classics, 2014.
• Wellesley, Arthur. Supplementary Dispatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshall Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.G. Edited by Arthur Richard Wellesley. Vol. 10. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1863.

Fiction

• De Balzac, Honoré. Père Goriot. Translated by Burton Raffel. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.
• De Vigny, Alfred. Servitude et grandeur militaires [Recollections of Military Servitude]. In Lights and Shades of Military Life. Edited by Charles James Napier. Translated by Frederic Shoberl. London: H. Colburn, 1840.
• Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Translated by Norman Denny. London: Penguin Books, 1982.
• Stendhal. The Red and the Black. Translated by Horace B. Samuel. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005.

Journal articles

• Bignon, Vincent, Eve Caroli and Roberto Galbiati. “Stealing to Survive: Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France.” The Economic Journal 127, no. 599 (February 2017): 19-49. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2012989.
• De Boer, Jelle Zeilinga, and Donald Theodore Sanders. “The Eruption of Tambora in 1815 and ‘the Year without a Summer.’” In Volcanoes in Human History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
• Engerman, Stanley L., and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. “The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World.” The Journal of Economic History, 65, no. 4 (December 2005).
• Friendly, Michael. “A.-M. Guerry’s Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis.” Statistical Science 22, no. 3 (2007): 368-99. DOI: 10.1214/07-STS241.
• Leuchter, Tyler. “Solidarity, Liability, and the New Regime of Corporate Property in Post-Revolutionary France.” La Révolution française, 15 (2018).
• Lewis, Gwynn. “The White Terror of 1815 in the Department of the Gard: Counter-Revolution, Continuity and the Individual.” Past & Present, no. 58 (Feb. 1973).
• Palsky, Gilles. “Connections and exchanges in European thematic cartography: The case of 19th century choropleth maps.” Belgeo [Online] 3-4 (2008): 413-426. DOI : http://doi.org/10.4000/belgeo.11893.
• Phillips, John A., and Charles Wetherell. “The Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Political Modernization of England.” The American Historical Review, 100, no. 2 (April 1995).
• Ratcliffe, Donald. “The Right to Vote and the Rise of Democracy, 1787—1828.” Journal of the Early Republic, 33, no. 2 (Summer 2013).
• Steinfeld, Robert J. . “Property and Suffrage in the Early American Republic.” Stanford Law Review, 41, no. 2 (January 1989).
• Quynn, Dorothy Mackay. “Destination: America: Marshal Ney’s Attempt to Escape.” French Historical Studies 2, no. 2 (Autumn, 1961): 232-241. DOI: 10.2307/286096.
• Thompson, Victoria E. “The Creation, Destruction and Recreation of Henri IV: Seeing Popular Sovereignty in the Statue of a King.” History and Memory, 24, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2012).

Data and mapping

• Bethe, Anne-Laura, and Paul Rouet. Vasserot data. Analyse diachronique de l’espace urbain Parisien: approche Geomatique. 2010 and 2013.
• DIVA-GIS. France elevation (country mask).
• Ellis, E.C., K.K. Goldewijk, S. Siebert, D. Lightman, and N. Ramankutty. 2013. Historic Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, 1800. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Accessed June 23, 2018.
• Patterson, Tom, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, et al. Natural Earth. Accessed June 23, 2018.
• Piketty, Thomas, and Gabriel Zucman. Piketty-Zucman Wealth-Income Data Set. Accessed June 24, 2018.

Reference works

• Black, Jeremy, ed. DK World History Atlas. 2nd ed. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2005.
• The Chicago Manual of Style. 17th ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
• HarperCollins Robert French College Dictionary. 4th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.

Single-episode sources

Episode 11: The Year Without A Summer

• Arago, François, and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, eds. Annales de chimie et de physique. Vol. 1-3. Paris: Crochard, 1816.
• Ministère de l’Intérieur. Circulaires, instructions et autre actes ´manés du minstère de l’intérieur de 1797 à 1821 inclusivement. 2nd ed. Vol 3. Paris, 1823.
• De Boer, Jelle Zeilinga, and Donald Theodore Sanders. “The Eruption of Tambora in 1815 and ‘the Year without a Summer.’” In Volcanoes in Human History, 138-156. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
• Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste, and Fabien Locher. Les révoltes du ciel. Une autre histoire du changement climatique. Le Seuil, forthcoming.
• Raffles, Sophia. Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c., particularly in the government of Java 1811–1816, and of Bencoolen and its dependencies 1817–1824: with details of the commerce and resources of the eastern archipelago, and selections from his correspondence. London: John Murray, 1830.
• Rocco, Stevie. “Benjamin Franklin: Politician, Inventor, Climatologist.” Penn State Freshman Seminar in Earth and Mineral Sciences. Accessed July 10, 2019.
• Skeen, C. Edward. “‘The Year without a Summer’: A Historical View.” Journal of the Early Republic, 1, no. 1 (Spring, 1981): 51-67. DOI: DOI: 10.2307/3122774.
• Winchester, Simon. Krakatoa: The Day the World Explored, August 27, 1883. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.

Episode 13: Bourbons, Neat

• Dickerman, Edmund H. “The Conversion of Henry IV: ‘Paris Is Well Worth a Mass’ in Psychological Perspective.” The Catholic Historical Review 63, no. 1 (1977): 1-13.

Episode 14: Slipped on the Blood

• Arago, François, and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, eds. Annales de chimie et de physique. Vol. 13. Paris: Crochard, 1820.
• Procès de Louis-Pierre Louvel, assassin de S. A. R. monseigneur le duc de Berri […]. Paris: Delarue, 1820.

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