Des Lettres de cachet et des prisons d'état by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau: “In Literature, he has written on _Despotism_, on _Lettres-de-Cachet;_ Erotics Sapphic-Werterean”
Le Diable Amoureux by Jacques Cazotte: “Why, O Cazotte, wouldst thou quit romancing, and _Diable Amoureux_, for such reality as this?”
Common Sense by Thomas Paine: “Her Paine: rebellious Staymaker; unkempt; who feels that he, a single Needleman, did by his 'Common Sense' Pamphlet, free America;--that he can and will free all this World; perhaps even the other.”
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “has not Jean Jacques promulgated his new Evangel of a _Contrat Social;_ explaining the whole mystery of Government, and how it is _contracted_ and bargained for”
Le Souper de Beaucaire by Napoleon Bonaparte: “publishes his _Supper of Beaucaire_, a Dialogue which has become curious.”
Books that mention The French Revolution: A History (7)
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott: “One bright morning, as Rose sat down to begin a fat volume entitled "History of the French Revolution," expecting to come to great grief over the long names, Mac, who was lumbering about the room like a blind bear, stopped her by asking abruptly,”
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope: “Let me see: I was told to read Carlyle's History of the French Revolution, and I think I'll begin now."”
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett: “It was a book about the French Revolution, and she was soon lost in a harrowing picture of the prisoners in the Bastille--men who had spent so many years in dungeons that when they were dragged out by those who rescued them, their long, gray hair and beards almost hid their faces, and they had…”
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “For the session on the French Revolution, Will read Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution, a History.”
The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy: “Meanwhile he wavered between purchasing a book called Market Hayborough, which he had read and would certainly enjoy a second time, and Carlyle's French Revolution, which he had not read and was doubtful of enjoying; he felt that he ought to buy the latter, but he did not relish giving up the former.”
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf: “we do know what Carlyle went through when he wrote the FRENCH REVOLUTION”
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl by Yoné Noguchi: “Great Carlyle wrote his “French Revolution” twice. I wish I had been given a slice of his persistency.”