Honors Proposal

Paris during the French Revolution - 1789-1799

       I chose Paris during 1789 to 1799 mainly because my teacher last year, Sarah recommended to me that I read "A Tale of Two Cities", which is about lower class citizens in Paris revolting against the French aristocracy, but I never got around to it. I wanted to read it because Sarah told me it was a really well written and good book and I trust her opinion. She recommended it to me because she wanted me to start reading more challenging and more thought provoking books than the ones I was reading. She couldn't say enough good things about it and she just convinced me to read it, but I never had time last year. I also don't know too much about the French Revolution or what it was like in Paris during that time so I thought it would be a perfect fit for me so that I could learn about a piece of history that I was never taught and at the same time read a book that I have been wanting to read.
       So, I already picked "A Tale of Two Cities", which left me with only three more novels to pick that depicted Pairs between the years of 1789 and 1799.  The first one I chose after "Two Cities" was "Ninety-Three" by Victor Hugo. This book is about the revolutionaries who are trying to change the government of France and the counter revolutionaries, who are trying to put France back the way it was before the revolution. My third book is "The Golden Hour" which is a modern book that will show an outsiders perspective on the French Revolution, as a young boy time travels to that time period and is thrown into the middle of the Revolution. My fourth and final novel is "The Gods are Athirst" by Anatole France, which depicts the Rain of Terror portion of the French Revolution. The novel follows a young Parisian painter who becomes a juror on the Revolutionary Tribunal.
      The other resources I will be using to learn more about my city and decade are these two webs: http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/history/assets/french_revolution.gif and http://www.thecorner.org/forum/messages/14/210.gif, these online resources: http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/revolution.htm, http://www.parisrama.com/english%20version/pages_history/revolution.htm, and http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/frenchrev.

List of authors and such: http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Fcollection=66&Itemid=27, http://history-world.org/french_revolution.htm