Recommended Reading

FICTION

For the King by Catherine Delors

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Becoming Marie Antoinette; Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow; Confessions of Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

The Wardrobe Mistress by Meghan Masterson

Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran

Where the Light Falls by Allison and Owen Pataki

City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy

Enchantée by Gita Trelease

Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb

NONFICTION

Ballard, Richard. A New Dictionary of the French Revolution.

Benard, Joseph A. The French Stage and the French People: Memoirs of M. Fleury, translated from French by Theodore E. Hook.

Cadbury, Deborah. The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA.

Dunn, Susan. Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light.

Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and their French Revolution.

Hufton, Olwen H. Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution.

Kale, Steven D. French Salons: High Society and Political Stability.

Lamartine, Alphonse de. History of the Girondists: or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution.

Landes, Joan B. Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution.

Lenotre, G. A Gascon Royalist in Revolutionary Paris: The Baron de Batz, 1792–1795, translated from French by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell.

Life and Letters of Madame Élisabeth de France, Sister of Louis XVI.

Melzer, Sara E., and Leslie W. Rabine. Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution.

The Memoirs of Madame Roland: A Heroine of the French Revolution, edited and translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh.

Moore, Lucy. Liberty: Women and the French Revolution.

Proctor, Candace. Women, Equality and the French Revolution.

Reynolds, Sian. Marriage and Revolution: Monsieur and Madame Roland.

Schama, Simon. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution.

Tackett, Timothy. When the King Took Flight.

Towle, Sarah. Beware Madame la Guillotine.

Van Alstine, Jeanette. Charlotte Corday.

Yalom, Marilyn. Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women’s Memory.

Yalom, Marilyn. Compelled to Witness: Women’s Memoirs of the French Revolution.