Class Schedule: Week 2

Tuesday, January 21

Food for Thought
Topic of Discussion:
The Origins and Commencement of the French Revolution
Readings:
Primary Source: Excerpts from Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (1788)
Primary Source: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
Wright, pp. 33-49
Web Gallery:
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii (1784)

Thursday, January 23

Food for Thought
Topic of Discussion:
From the Liberal to the Radical Revolution
Readings:
Primary Source: Excerpt from Pierre Vergniaud, Speech to the Constituent Assembly, (1792)
Primary Source: Maximilien Robespierre, "Republic of Virtue" Speech (1794)
Wright, pp. 49-62
 

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