Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for July, 2009

• New digital collection in French history
  Posted July 22, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  One of Special Collection’s best resources in early modern history is our French Political Pamphlets collection.  It consists of over 2,100 short works printed in France between 1550 and 1650.  These pamphlets describe and react to the social, political, religious and economic issues and events of the period, including France’s Wars of Religion, the Edict [...]

• Bastille Day
  Posted July 14, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Bastille Day is France’s national holiday, which commemorates the storming of the Bastille fortress by the citizens of Paris on July 14, 1789. The storming of the Bastille was the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution and the rebellion of common citizens against the nobility. Special Collections has a few first-hand accounts of the storming [...]