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.
Beach, Vincent W. Charles X of France: His Life and Times. Boulder, Colo.: Pruett Publishing Company, 1971.
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.
Blumenthal, Henry. France and the United States: Their Diplomatic Relations, 1789-1914. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1972.
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.
Bury, J.P.T. and R.P. Tombs. Thiers, 1797-1877: A Political Life. Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1986.
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.
Craiutu, Aurelian. Liberalism Under Siege: The political Thought of the French Doctrinaires. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003.
Cubitt, Geoffrey. The Jesuit Myth: Conspiracy Theory and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
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.
Duncan, Mike. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution. New York: Public Affairs, 2021.
Dwyer, Philip. Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection, 1815-1840. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
Evans, Richard J. The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914. New York: Penguin Books, 2016.
Goldstein, Robert Justin. Censorship of Political Caricature in Nineteenth-Century France. Kent, Ohio, and London: The Kent State University Press, 1990.
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.
Hazareesingh, Sudhir. The Saint-Napoleon. Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Jardin, André, and André-Jean Tudesq. Restoration & Reaction, 1815-1848. Translated by Elborg Forster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Kroen, Sheryl. Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Kselman, Thomas. Conscience and Conversion: Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018.
Kselman, Thomas. Death and the Afterlife in Modern France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
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.
McMahon, Darrin M. Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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.
Muhlstein, Anka. Baron James: The Rise of the French Rothschilds. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.
Nagel, Susan. Marie Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.
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.
Robb, Graham. Victor Hugo: A Biography. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
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.
Spitzer, Alan B. The French Generation of 1820. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Spitzer, Alan B. Old Hatreds and Young Hopes: The French Carbonari Against the Bourbon Restoration. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.
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. Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871. London: Phoenix Press, 1999.
Zamoyski, Adam. Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848. New York: Basic Books, 2015.
Zamoyski, Adam. Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna. London: Harper Perennial, 2007.

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.
Thiers, Adolphe. The Pyrenees and the South of France, During the Months of November and December 1822. Translator unknown. London: Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter, 1823.
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.
Hugo, Victory. Les Misérables. Translated by Christine Donougher. Penguin Classics, 2013. Kindle.
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).
Oosterlinck, Kim, Loredana Ureche-Rangau and Jacques-Marie Vaslin. “Aristocratic Privilege: Exploiting ‘Good’ Institutions.” Discussion paper, Centre for Economic Policy Research. London: October 22, 2019.
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 18: The Road to Trocadero

De Chateaubriand, François-René. Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe, Tome IV. Project Gutenberg, 1975.
Oosterlinck, Kim, Loredana Ureche-Rangau, and Jacques-Marie Vaslin. “Waterloo: a Godsend for French Public Finances?.” Draft paper, Nov. 2013.

Episode 19: France and the Monroe Doctrine

De Chateaubriand, François-René. The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Vol. 4 (of 6). Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, and London: Freemantle and Company. Project Gutenberg, 2017.
Gallatin, Albert. The Writings of Albert Gallatin, vol. 2. Ed. Henry Adams. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1879.
Perkins, Dexter. “Europe, Spanish America, and the Monroe Doctrine.” The American Historical Review, vol. 27, no. 2. Jan. 1922.
Ward, Adolphus William and George Peabody Gooch. The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, 1783-1919, Vol. II: 1815-1866. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1923

Episode 20: The Death of Napoleon

Smart, John. “Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon at Torbay.” In Clement Shorter, Napoleon and his Fellow Travellers. London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1908.

Episode 21: The Afterlife of Napoleon

Rowland, John Thomas. Lecture on Beranger, the French Lyric Poet…. Drogheda: A. McDougall, 1858.

Episode 22: French Press

Cragin, Thomas. Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830-1900. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 2006.

Supplemental 8: Bastille Day

Holroyd, Richard. “The Bourbon Army, 1815-1830.” The Historical Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3 (September 1971).

Supplemental 9: Thiers in Spain

Brockett, L.P. The year of battles: a history of the Franco-German war of 1870-‘71. Embracing also Paris under the Commune; or, The red rebellion of 1871. A second reign of terror, murder, and madness.. New York: H.S. Goodspeed & Co., 1871.
Cross, Gary. “Vacations for All: The Leisure Question in the Era of the Popular Front.” Journal of Contemporary History 24, no. 4 (1989).
The London and Paris Observer: Or Weekly Chronicle of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, vol. 3 (Jan. 21, 1827).

Episode 23: Charbonnerie

Henry, Louis and Yves Blayo. “La population de la France de 1740 à 1860.” Population 30, no. 1 (1975).
“Age pyramid 2020 – France and metropolitan France.” INSEE, 2020.

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Episode 25: The King is Dead

Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, to George Canning. Paris, December 12, 1822. In Despatches, Correspondence and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.G.. Ed. Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington. Vol. 1. London: John Murray, 1867.

Supplemental 10: Et cetera, Wellington

Charles James, A collection of the charges, opinions, and sentences of general Courts Martial […] (London: T. Egerton, 1820).
Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.G. Ed. Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington. Vols. 9-12. London: John Murray, 1864.
Despatches, Correspondence and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.G.. Ed. Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington. Vols. 1-2. London: John Murray, 1867.

Episode 27: Mission From God

Lyons, Martyn. “Fires of Expiation: Book-Burnings and Catholic Missions in Restoration France.” French History, vol. 10, no. 2 (June 1996): 240–266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/10.2.240
Riasanovsky, Maria Nicole. “The Trumpets of Jericho: Domestic Missions and Religious Revival in France, 1814-1830.” 2 vols., PhD diss. Princeton University, 2001.
“To George Washington from Lafayette, 11 May 1785.” Founders Online, National Archives. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington. Confederation Series, vol. 2, 18 July 1784 – 18 May 1785, ed. W. W. Abbot (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992), pp. 550–551.]

Supplemental 11: The Year 1817

Biré, Edmond. Victor Hugo avant 1830. Paris: Jules Gervais, 1883.
Hall, John Richard. The Bourbon Restoration. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909.
O’Connell, David. “Ourika: Black Face, White Mask.” The French Review. Special Issue 47, no. 6 (1974): 47–56.

Episode 28: Charles in Charge

Bloch, Marc. The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France. Translated by J.E. Anderson. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2020.
Hartman, Mary S. “The Sacrilege Law of 1825 in France: A Study in Anticlericalism and Mythmaking.” The Journal of Modern History. Vol. 44, No. 1 (Mar. 1972).
Johnson, Janet. “A Lost Masterpiece Recovered.” Liner notes for Rossini: Il Viaggio a Reims. Gioacchino Rossini et al. Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon, 1985.
Johnson, Janet. “Synopsis.” Liner notes for Rossini: Il Viaggio a Reims. Gioacchino Rossini et al. Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon, 1985.
Osborne, Richard. Rossini. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Walton, Benjamin. “‘Quelque peu théâtral’: The Operatic Coronation of Charles X.” 19th-Century Music. Vol. 26, No. 1 (Summer 2002).