Project History
This site with more than 600 primary documents grew out of a collaboration of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project at City University of New York, supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The site had originally been conceived as a CD-ROM with a print book to accompany it. The website now replaces the CD-ROM. The print book is still available from Penn State University Press but many other general books on the French Revolution and Napoleon have appeared since its publication, including one by the original two authors, Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt.
2019 Update
Produced by: Stephen Robertson
Associate Producers: Jack R. Censer, Lynn Hunt, Bryan Banks, Cindy Ermus
Lead Designer and Developer: Kim Nguyen
2018 Update
Produced by: Sean Takats
Migration Editor: Amanda Morton
Thanks to the support of the Louise and Rudolf Fishel Fellowship.
1998 Launch
Editors and principal authors: Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt
Produced by: Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown, Roy Rosenzweig
Associate Producers: Jack R. Censer, Lynn Hunt
Executive Producers: Stephen Brier, Joshua Brown, Roy Rosenzweig
Multimedia Production: Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown
Associate Editors: Gregory Brown and Jeff Horn
"How to Read Images" by Philippe Bordes
"Songs of the Revolution" by Laura Mason
Designers: Joshua Brown and Fernando Azevedo
Graphics and Art Work: Fernando Azevedo, Joshua Brown, Andrea Ades Vásquez
Database development: Elena Razlogova
Web Programming: Jennifer Min, Burç Acar, Christopher Hefner, Elena Razlogova, Peter Strong
Translations: Thomas Morgan, Lee Ann Ghajar, Emanuelle M. Mosinski
Copyediting: Vicky Macintyre, Susie LeBlanc
Research and Technical Assistance: Jessica Finnefrock, Peter Strong, Gideon Brown, Elena Razlogova, TuVinh Vuong, Alan Gevinson, Julie Carpenter, Deborah Gómez, Lynne Zegeer, Cathie Boivin, Claire Taylor, Elizabeth Harden, Chris Moore, Louise Vis, Nathan Hamilton, Joseph Rinehart, Erin Miller, Tom McMurrer, Sanchia Spence, Steve Paxton, Jennifer Sessions, Michael Laine, Dan Maxwell, Troy LaChance
Music: "Te Deum," "Air des Marseillais," "Hymne du 21 Janvier," "Hymne du IX Thermidor," "Hymne pour la Fete des Epoux," "Chant pour la Fete de la Vieillese," "Hymne Funebre," "Chant Patriotique," Margaret Redcay
Robert Walzel, Flute
Richard Meek, Clarinet
John Stinespring, Bassoon
The music was taken from Constant Pierre, Musique des fêtes et ceremonies de la Révolution Française (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1899). It was arranged for woodwind ensemble and basso-cantante soloist (William Hartwell) by the musicians themselves.
"La Carmagnole," "Çaira," "Le Reveil du Peuple," "O Richard, O mon Roi," and "La Marseillaise" coordinated by James H. Johnson
Dana Whiteside, Baritone
James H. Johnson, Piano
Additional vocals by: Deborah Gitin, Jonathan Hiam, Jared Johnson, David Mooney, Sarah H. Murray, Geoffrey Wieting, Liza Wirtz, Robert Wright
Producer: Barry Marshall
Piano Selections performed by James H. Johnson
"La Marseillaise," Arrangé pour le Forte Piano Par le Citoyen C. Balbastre Aux braves defenseurs de la Republique francaise L'an 1792 1er de la Republique "Çaira," le Citoyen C. Balbastre "La Mort de Louis Seize," (selections) F. D. Mouchy "Les Souffrances de la Reine de France," (selections) Jan Ladislav Dussek Consultants: Beverly Blois, Philippe Bordes, Kathe Naughton
Thanks To: Mercer Street Sound, NYC, and Sound Techniques, Boston Major Funding: The National Endowment for the Humanities, an Independent Federal Agency; The Florence Gould Foundation