Spotlight Exhibit Series

	Detail from "Affranchis des Colonies." In Ponce, Nicolas. Recueil de vues des lieux principaux de la colonie françoise de Saint-Domingue. Paris, 1791. Newberry Library + sc1395

Revolutionary France and Haiti, 1787–1804
February 10 – March 13, 2007

This overview of the French and Haitian Revolutions was inspired by "Revolution and the Making of Identities: France and Haiti, 1787-1804" a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for University Faculty held at the Newberry in 2006.

Exhibit text and select images from the items displayed are available as a Spotlight Web Exhibit.

Object List

§ The Revolution in France

Extrait des procès-verbaux/de l'Assemblée nationale; des 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 août & premier octobre 1789; déclaration des droits de l'homme en société.  France: Assemblée nationale constituante, 1789.
Newberry Library Case FRC 836         

Peace-republicans' manual.  New York:  J. Tiebout & Sons, 1817.
Newberry Library Case J 5393 .418       

Réflexions d'une dame: sur les droits de l'homme.  Paris. 1792.
Newberry Library Case FRC 7531

La Feuille Villageoise.  Paris: Chez Desenne, 1790-  .
Newberry Library FRC 5 .469 vol. 1                  

Rabut, J.P.  Précis Historique de la Révolution Française.  Paris, 1813.
Newberry Library F 393 .73      

L'ami du People et L'ami du Roi.
Newberry Library Case FRC 469

§ The French in Haiti

Veüe et perspective du Cap François leué en 1723.
Newberry Library Ayer MS 30 sheet 70

Le Code noir, ou Recueil des reglemens rendus jusqu'à présent.  Paris: Chez Prault, 1767.
Newberry Library Case K 339 .3205       

[Papers concerning claims made by the heirs of Elie Allard for the payment of indemnities for property in the former French colony of Saint Domingue, 1785-1844].
Newberry Library Ayer MS 1821

Ponce, Nicolas.  Recueil de vues des lieux principaux de la colonie françoise de Saint-Domingue, gravées par les soins de M. Ponce ... Paris: M. Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. Ponce, M. Phelipeau, 1791.
Newberry Library + sc1395

Descourtilz, Michel Étienne.   Voyages d'un naturaliste.  Paris, 1809.
Newberry Library Ayer 958.5 .H21 D44 1809 vol. 2 and vol. 3.

Resources

• French Revolution Collection (FRC)
  The French Revolution Collection was acquired between 1957 and 1961 from Michel Bernstein, a bookdealer in Paris. It includes more than 35,000 pamphlets and 180 periodicals published between 1780 and 1810. The collection is considered to be the one of the largest of its kind outside of Paris.
  
  Other related collections materials include: Jansenist Collection, French Laws on Censorship (part of the John M. Wing Collection), Trial and execution of Louis XVI (Newberry Library Case Wing DC137.08. F73), and Saint-Sulpice Collection/Recueil de pieces historiques (Newberry Library sc2762).
  
  
• NEH seminar description and reading list
  The five-week seminar was directed by Professor Jeremy Popkin (History Department, University of Kentucky)at the Newberry in 2006.

This Spotlight Exhibit was inspired and funded in part by "Revolution and the Making of Identities: France and Haiti, 1787-1804" a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar held at the Library in 2006. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the NEH.