For this period we have, as may be seen from the following list of books, very few memoirs, only a limited number of newspapers, and no books which show us in detail the inside work of the big and little political events of the day.
The rôle which the Batavian Republic played was so little flattering that the chief participants in the drama of national decadence preferred not to chronicle their own adventures between the years 1795 and 1815 and expose their private conduct to the public judgment of their children and grandchildren.
THE BATAVIAN REPUBLIC
Van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek, the only source of information for the lives of many of the men of this period.
Appelius, J.H., de staatsomwenteling van 1795 in haren aard, loop en gevolgen beschouwd. Leiden, 1801.
D'Auzon de Boisminart W.P., Gedenkschriften, 1788-1840. The Hague, 1841-1843.
Bas, F. de, De overgave van de Bataafsche vloot in 1795. Utrecht, 1884.
Berkhey, J. le Francq van, de Bataafsche menschelykheid enz. Leiden, 1801.
Beynen, G.J.W. Koolemans, Het Terugtrekken van Daendels in 1799 uit de Zype naar de Schermer. Leiden, 1898.
Blok, P.J., Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche volk. The new standard history in eight volumes. Translated into English. The part treating of the last hundred years of the Dutch Republic has not been translated as fully as the earlier history.