LibGuides: Primary Sources: France: American Revolution

Online Sources: France

Treaty of Alliance with France
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February 6, 1778

Book Sources: France

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A French Volunteer of the War of Independence by Charles Albert Móre
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

(the chevalier de Pontgiband) tr. and ed. by Robert B. Douglas.
Despatches and Instructions of Conrad Alexandre Gérard, 1778-1780 by Conrad Alexandre Gérard et al.
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

Correspondence of the first French minister to the United States with the Comte de Vergennes, with an historical introduction and notes by John J. Meng.
Franklin in France by Edward Everett Hale
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library

from Original Documents, most of which are now published for the First Time
My Campaigns in America by William de Deux-Ponts
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

A Journal kept by Count William de Deux-Ponts, 1780-81
Translated from the French manuscript, with an introduction and notes, by Samuel Abbott Green.
The Operations of the French Fleet under the Count de Grasse
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library

in 1781-2, as Described in Two Contemporaneous Journals
The Operations of the French Fleet under the Count de Grasse in 1781-1782 by John Gilmary Shea
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

As described in two contemporaneous journals.
Edited by John Dawson Gilmary Shea.
The second journal was written "by a friendly hand, if not his [de Grasse's] own." cf. p. 21.
The name "Chevalier de Goussencourt," under which the first journal was issued, appears to be a pseudonym. cf. Pref.
New Materials for the History of the American Revolution by John Durand
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

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