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French history, philosophy, literature, and language

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Memoirs and Historical Chronices of the Courts of Europe: MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV, OF MADAME DE POMPADOUR Of the Court of Louis XV, and OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI Queen of France, Wife of Henri II
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, Written by Herself, Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre (3 volumes in one file)
Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, Written by Himself, Being Historic Court Memoirs of the Great Events during the Minority of Louis XIV. and the Administration of Cardinal Mazarin. (4 volumes in one file)
Memoirs of Madame La Marquise de Montespan Written by Herself, Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV (7 volumes in one file)
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV and of the Regency, Being the Secret Memoirs of the Mother of the Regent, Madame Elizabeth-Charlotte of Bavaria, Duchesse d'Orleans (4 volumes in one file)
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by the Duck of Saint-Simon (15 volumes in one file)
Memoirs of Louis XV and XVI Being Secret Memoirs of Madame du Hausset, Lady's Maid to Madame

Memoirs of Marie Antoinette by Madame Campan, first lady in waiting to the queen (7 volumes in one file)
Discours sur la Necessite et les Moyens de Detruire l'Esclavage dans les Colonies by M. de Ladebat, 1788
Lettre a Louis XIV by Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of Fance by Charles Duke Yonge, 1876
Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de l'Enclos
Relation Originale de Jacque Cartier
Trois Heros de la Colonie de Montreal by P. Dupuy
Les Francais en Amerique Pendant la Guerre de l'Independance des Etats-Unis by Thomas Balch

in French with accents
in French without accents

Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1, The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5

French Revolution

History of the French Revolution by F.A.M. Mignet
Les Grands Orateurs de la Revolution by Francois-Alphonse Aulard
A Residence in France 1792-1795
Thermidor
The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3

Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2, The French Revolution Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893)

Book 1
Book 2
Book 3

Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 3, The French Revolution Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893)

Book 1
Book 2
Book 3

Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 4, The French Revolution Volume 3 by Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893)

Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5

Memoires de Mme la Marquise de la Rochejaquelin, 1811
Memoires Secrets by Claude Fournier

in French with accents
in French without accents

Histoire de la Revolution Francaise by M.A. Thiers
volume 1

in French with accents
in French without accents

volume 2

in French with accents
in French without accents

volume 3

in French with accents
in French without accents

volume 4

in French with accents
in French without accents

volume 5

in French with accents
in French without accents

volume 6
volume 7
volume 8
volume 9
volume 10

Napoleon

Boy Life of Napoleon by Eugenie Foa
The Court of the Empress Josephine by Imbert de Saint-Amand, translated by Thomas Perry
Folk Tales of Napoleon translated by George Kennan
Life of Napoleon by John Rose

volume 1
volume 2

The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle
Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud by Stewarton (7 volumes in one file)
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, his private secretary, edited by R.W. Phipps (16 volumes, 2.8 Mbytes, in a single file)
Napoleon Bonaparte by John Abbott
Napoleon's Campaign in Russia 1812 (medical perspective) by Dr. A. Rose
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon by Constant, Premier Valet de Chambre, translated by Walter Clark (12 volumes, 1.7 Mbytes in a single file)
Oeuvres de Napoleon Bonaparte

volume 1
volume 2
volume 3
volume 4
volume 5

Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5, The Modern Regime/Napoleon Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893)

Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6

19th Century up to WWI

Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior 1834 to 1859, volume 2
Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, 1864
La Derniere Lettre Ecrite par des Soldats francais Tombes au Champ d'Honneur 1914-1918

in French with accents
in French without accents

En Ballon Pendant le Siege de Paris by Gaston Tissander
Bulletin de Lille, Jan. 2, 1916 (published by "l'Authorite Allemande")
Filleules de Rubens: Histoire Flammande
France in the 19th Century 1830-1890 by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
Memoirs of Prince de Joinville (translated by Lady Mary Cord)
Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de mon temps, 1858

volume 1
volume 2
volume 3
volume 4

My Days of Adventure: the Fall of France 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Paris Under the Commune by John Leighton
La Presse Clandestine dans la Belgique Occupee by jean Massart
Recits d'un Soldat by Amedee Achard, 1871
Socialism in Danger
La Veille d'Armes by Claude Farriere and Lucien Nepoty
The White Road to Verdun by Kathleen Burke

French Philosophy, Science, and Social Science

Frederick Bastiat

What is Free Trade? by Emile Wlater, an adapation of "Sophismes Economiques" by Bastiat

Danton (1759-1794)

Discours Civiques

in French with accents
in French without accents

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
Discours de la Methode
Principles of Philosophy

Emile Faguet (1847–1916)

Initiation into Literature, translated by Sir Home Gordon
Initiation into Philosophy
Etudes Litteraires: Dix-Huitieme Siecle

Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789)

Good Sense without God (1772)

Le P. Didon

Influence Morale des Sport athletiques

Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)

The Crowd: a Study of the Popular Mind
The Psychology of Revolution

Lucien Poincare

The New Physics and Its Evolution, 1909

Joseph-Pierre Proudhon (1809-1865)

The System of Evolution of Capitalism, System of Economical Contradictions or, the Philosophy of Misery
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Confessions, in English
A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
Emile, in English
about Rousseau

Rousseau by John Morley, volume 1

Travel in France and by the French

A Bibliographic, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, volume 1, by Rev. Thomas Dibdon, 1829
La Bretagne by Eugene Loudun
S. Baring-Gould

In Troubadour-Land: a Ramble in Provence and Languedoc

M. Bethan-Edwards

Holidays in Eastern France
In the Heart of the Vosges
The Roof of France

En Kabylie: Voyage d'une Parisienne au Durjura by J. Vilbort, 1875
Paris as It Was and Is, Letters of an English Traveler 1801-1802
Account of a Tour in Normandy by Dawson Turner

volume 1
volume 2

After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W.E. Frye
Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary King Waddington
Ice Caves of France and Switzerland by Rev. G.F. Browne
A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix, 1890
Voyages en France pendant les Annees 1787, 1788, 1789 by Arthur Young

French Literature

Medieval and Renaissance French Literature

Ballads and Lyrics of Old France: with Other Poems, translated to English by Andrew Lang includes:

Charles d'Orlean
Francois Villon
Joachim du Bellay
Remy Belleau
Pierre Ronsard
Jacques Tahureau
Jean Passerat
also, 19th century poets Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Gerard de Nerval, and Henri Murger

Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes, in English

Erec et Enide
Cliges
Yvain
Lancelot

French Medieval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
High History of the Holy Graal, anonymous continuation of an unfinished romance by Chretien DeTroyes, in English
Le Romanz de l'estoire dou Graal by Robert de Boron

with accents
without accents

The Song of Roland, anonymous, in English
Poesies du Troubadour Peire Raimon de Toulouse by Joseph Anglade
The Sweet and Touching Tale of Fleur and Blanchefleur
Historia Calamitatum, the Story of my Misfortunes by Peter Abelard, translated by Henry Adam Bellows
Francois Villon (1431-1463?) Oeuvres Completes
Poesies de Charles d'Orleans
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

Translations to French

Les Quatre Livres de Statagemes by Sextus Julius Frontin, translated to French by M. Ch. Bailly
Poesies 1748-1783 by Friedrich Klopstock, translated to French by Gerard de Nerval, 1830
Traite de la Verite de la Religion Chretienne by Grotius, translated from Latin to French by P. Le Jeane
Homer in French translation

Iliade translated by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de L'Isle
Odyssee translated by Charles-Rene-Marie Leconte de L'Isle

William Shakespeare in French, translated by M. Guizot

Antoine et Cleopatre
Beaucoup de bruit pour rien (Much Ado About Nothing)
Comedie des Meprises (Comedy of Errors)
Corolian
Le Jour des rois ou Ce Que Vous Voudrez (As You Like It)
Jules Cesar
Macbeth
Timon d'Athenes

Anthologies and Magazines

French Lyrics selected and edited by Arthur Canfield
L'Illustration, Sat. August 1, 1914
International Short Stories -- French, edited by Francis Reynolds

General

Landmarks in French Literature by Lytton Strachey
Quelques Ecrivains francais by Emile Hermequin

in French with accents
in French without accents

Edmond About (1828-1885)

L'Homme a l'Oreille Cassee, 1862
The Roman Question, 1859

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

Alcools (1898-1912)

Alain-Fournier (1886-1914)

Le Grand Meaulnes

in French with accents
in French without accents

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

Adieu, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Albert Savarus, translated to English by Ellen Mariage
The Alkahest, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Analytical Studies
Another Study of Woman, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket, translated to English by Clara Bell
The Atheist's Mass, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
The Ball at Sceaux, translated to English by Clara Bell
Beatrix, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Brotherhood of Consolation, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Bureaucracy, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Catherine de Medici, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Celibates
The Chouans, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Christ in Flanders, translated to English by Ellen Marriage, short story
The Collection of Antiquities, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
Colonel Chabert, translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
The Commission in Lunacy, translated to English by Clara Bell
Contes Bruns

in French with accents
in French without accents

The Country Doctor, translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
Cousin Betty, translated to English by James Waring
Cousin Pons, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
A Daughter of Eve, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Deputy of Arcis, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Deserted Woman, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
A Distinguished Provincial in Paris (= Lost Illusions Part 2), translated to English by Ellen Marriage
Domestic Peace, translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
A Drama on the Seashore, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
Droll Stories, in English

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3

The Duchesse de Langeais, in English
The Elixir of Life, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring, short story
An Episode under the Terror, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
Eugenie Grandet, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Eugenie Grandet, in French
Eve and David, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
The Exiles, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
Facino Cane, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
Farewell, in English
Father Goriot, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
Ferragus, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Firm of Nucingen, translated to English by James Waring
Gambarra, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
The Girl with the Golden Eyes, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
Gobseck, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
La Grande Breteche (sequel to Another Study of Woman), translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, short story
Gaudissart II, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
La Grenadiere, translated to English by Ellen Marriage, short story
The Hated Son, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Hidden Masterpiece, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
An Historical Mystery, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Honorine, translated to English by Clara Bell
The Illustrious Gaudissart, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Jealousies of a Country Town
Juana, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Lesser Bourgoisie by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Letters of Two Brides, translated to English by R.S. Scott
The Lily of the Valley, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Lost Illusians
Louis Lambert, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
Madame Firmiani, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
The Magic Skin, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
Maitre Cornelius, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
A Man of Business, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
The Marriage Contract, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Massimilla Doni, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
Melmoth Reconciled, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
Mercadet (play), in English
The Message, translated to English by Ellen Marriage, short story
Modeste Mignon, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Muse of the Department, translated to English by James Waring
An Old Maid, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley and Clara Bell
Napoleon of the People
Pamela Giraud in English
Parisians in the Country
A Passion in the Desert, translated to English by Ernest Dawson, short story
Paz, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Petty Troubles of Married Life, in English

Part 1
Part 2

The Physiology of Marriage, in English

part 1
part 2

Pierre Grassou, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
Pierrette, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Poor Relations
A Prince of Bohemia, translated to English by Clara Bell
The Purse, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
The Recruit, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
The Red Inn, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Resources of Quinola
The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Sarrasine, translated to English by Clara Bell
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, translated to English by James Waring
A Second Home, translated to English by Clara Bell
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Seraphita, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Sons of the Soil, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
A Start in Life, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Stepmother (play)
A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant
Study of a Woman, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
The Thirteen
Two Brothers, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Two Poets, tanslated to English by Ellen Marriage
Unconscious Comedian, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Ursula, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Vautrin, play, in English
Vendetta, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
El Verdugo, translated to English by Katharine Prescot Wormeley
The Vicar of Tours, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
The Village Rector, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
A Woman of Thiry, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
Z. Marcas, translated to English by Clara Bell

about the Human Comedie

Introductions and Appendix to the Human Comedy
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2

about Balzac

Introduction to the Dramas of Balzac by Epiphanius Wilson
Balzac by Frederick Lawton
Honore de Blazac by Albert Keim and Louis Mumet, translated to English by Frederic Taber Cooper
Honore de Balzac: Life and Writings by Mary Sandars
Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

Les Fleurs du Mal
Journaux Intimes

Rene Bazin (1853-1932)

The Ink Stain

Therese Bentzon (pseudonym of Marie Therese Blanc) (1840-1907)

Jacqueline, in English

Charles de Bernard (1804-1850)

Gerfaut, in English

Boileau (1636-1711)

Le Lutrin

in French with accents
in French without accents

Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant

Voyage du Prince Fan-Feredin dans la Romancie, 1735

Paul Bourget (1852-1935)

about Paul Bourget

Essays on Paul Bourget by Mark Twain (short)

Jules Claretie (1840-1913)

Prince Zilah, in English

Benjamin Constant (1767-1840)

Adolphe

Francois Coppee (1842-1908)

A Romance of Youth, in English
Promenades et Interieures

Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)

The Cid, translated to English by Roscoe Mongan
Polyeucte, translated to English by Thomas Constable

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)

La Belle-Nivernaise

in French with accents
in French without accents

Fromont and Risler, in English
L'Immortel
Lettres de mon Moulin

in French with accents
in French without accents

The Nabob, translated to English by W. Blaydes
Le Nabab

volume 1

in French with accents
in French without accents

volume 2

in French with accents
in French without accents

Port Tarascon, 1890
Tartarin of Tarascon, translated to English by Olvier C. Colt
Tartarin sur les Alpes

in French with accents
in French without accents

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889)

Les Diaboliques (1850-1874)

Ernest d'Hervilly (1839-1911)

Le Chat de Neptune

in French with accents
in French without accents

Charles DeGuise

Legende Canadienne: Le Cap au Diable

Madame la Baronne de Stael (1766-1817)

Delphine (in French with accents)

Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

Le Neveu de Rameau
Regrets sur ma Vieille Robe de Chambre
Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville

in French with accents
in French without accents

Gustave Droz (1832-1895)

Monsieur, Madame, and Bebe, in English

Alexandre Dumas, pere (1802-1870)

The Black Tulip, in English
Capitaine Arena

volume 1 (in French with accents)
volume 2 (in French with accents)

Celebrated Crimes -- 18 books in a single file, in English

The Borgias
The Cenci
Massacres of the South
Mary Stuart
Karl-Ludwig Sand
Urbain Grandier
Nisida
Desrues
La Constantin
Joan of Naples
The Man in the Iron Mask (an essay, reflecting on the history behind the novel)
Martin Guerre (source of the movies "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "Somersby")
Ali Pacha
The Countess of Saint Geran
Murat
The Marquise de Brinvilliers
Vaninka
The Marquise de Ganges

Chicot the Jester (abridged translation of La Dame de Monsoreau)
Les Compagnon de Jehu
Companions of Jehu
Le Corricolo (French without accents)
The Count of Monte Cristo, in English
La Dame de Monsoreau

volume 1
volume 2
volume 3

The Forty-Five Guardsmen (sequel to Chicot the Jester)
Henri III et sa cour, in French, with accents
Histoire d'un Casse-Noisette

in French with accents
in French without accents

Les Milles et Un Fantomes
Les Quarante-Cinq

volume 1 in French with accents
volume 1 in French without accents
volume 2 in French with accents
volume 2 in French without accents
volume 3 in French with accents
volume 3 in French without accents

La Reine Margot

volume 1
volume 2

Le Speronare (in French wihtout accents)
The Three Musketeers Saga, in English

The Three Musketeers (covering 1625-1628)
Twenty Years After (covering 1648-49)
The Vicomte de Bragelonne (covering 1660)
Ten Years Later (covering 1660-1661)
Louise de la Valliere (covering 1661)
The Man in the Iron Mask (covering 1661-1673)

Les Trois Mousquetaires
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne

volume 1
volume 2
volume 3
volume 4

Vingt Ans Apres

Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895)

Camille (La Dame aux Camilias), in English
The Son of Clemenceau

Emile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian

Contes de la Montagne

in French without accents
in French with accents

The Man-Wolf and Other Stories, 1876

Ernest Doin (1809-1891)

Le Conscrit (play)

Octave Feuillet (1821-1890)

Monsieur de Camors, in English

Paul Feval (1817-1887)

La Fabrique des Crimes, 1866
La Fee des Greves
Le Loup Blanc
La Vampire

A. Filiatreault

Contes. Anecdotes, et Recits Canadiens

Gustave Flaubert (1804-1876)

Bouvard et Pechuchet
Dictionnarie des Idees Recues
Herodias (story), in English
Madame Bovary, in English
Over Strand and Field [Travel through Brittany]
Salammbo, in English
A Simple Soul (story), in English
La Tentation de Saint Antoine
Three Short Works (Dance of Death, Legend of Saint-Julien, A Simple Soul)
Trois Contes (Coeur Simple, La Legende de Saint-Julien, Herodias)

in French with accents
in French without accents

about Flaubert

The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert
George Sand - Gustave Flaubert Letters
Quelques Ecrivains francais by Emile Hermequin

in French with accents
in French without accents

L. Becq de Fouquieres

L'Art de la Mise en Scene

Anatole France (pseudonym of Jacques-Anatole Thibault) (1844-1924)

The Aspirations of Jean Severien
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, in English
Le Jardin d'Epicure

in French with accents
in French without accents

Monsieur Bergeret a Paris (in French without accents)
The Queen Pedauque, in English, translated by Joseph Stutzko
Penguin Island, in English
Pierre Noziere, in French
The Red Lily, in English
La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauquet
Thais, in English
Thais, in French

Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)

L'Argent des Autres

in French with accents
in French without accents

Baron Trigault's Vengeance (sequel to Count's Millions), in English
Caught in the Net, in English
The Champdoce Mystery (sequel to Caught in the Net), in English
The Clique of Gold, in English
La Corde au Cou, 1873, in French
The Count's Millions, in English
File Number 113, in English
The Honor of the Name, in English
Monsieur Lecoq

in English
volume 1 in French with accents
volume 1 in French without accents
volume 2 in French without accents

The Mystery of Orcival, in English
Other People's Money, in English
Sur la Pierre Blanche (in French with accents)
The Widow Lerouge, in English
Within an Inch of His Life, in English

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Noa, Noa, in French

Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)

Captain Fracasse, in English
La Comedie de la Mort, 1838
Mademoiselle de Maupin, 1835

Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896) and Goncourt, Jules de (1830-1870)

Journal des Goncout: Memories de la Vie Litteraire

volume 1
volume 2

M. Guizot

Etude sur Shakespeare

Ludovic Halevy (1834-1908)

The Abbe Constantin, in English

Jose-Maria Heredia (1842-1905)

Les Trophees

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Actes et Paroles

volume 1 (in French without accents)
volume 2 (in French without accents)
volume 3 (in French without accents)
volume 4 (in French without accents)

Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne

in French with accents
in French without accents

L'Esmeralda (play) in French
Hernani (play) in French
The History of a Crime
Legende des Siecles
L'Homme Qui Rit

in French with accents
in French without accents

The Man Who Laughs
Memoirs, in English
Les Miserables, translated to English by Isabel Hapgood
Notre Dame de Paris (AKA The Hunchback of Notre Dame), in English
Philosophy volume 1 from Oeuvres
Poems
Quatrevingt-treize

in French, with accents
in French, without accents

about Hugo

Quelques Ecrivains francais by Emile Hermequin

in French with accents
in French without accents

Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907)

Against the Grain

Madame de Lafayette (1634-1693)

The Princess of Cleves, in English
Princess of Monpensier, translated to English by Oliver C. Colt

with accents
without accents

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)

Raphael or Pages of the Book of Life at 20

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)

Fables, translated by Elizur Wright
Tales and Novels

Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864)

Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry by by Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

Le Comte de Lautreamont (= Isidore Lucien Ducasse) (1846-1870)

Les Chants de Maldoror

Gaston Lavalley

Legendes Normandes

Gaston Leroux (1868-1927)

Les Etranges Noces de Rouletabille
Les Gens de Bureau
Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
The Phantom of the Opera
Le Parfum de la Dame en Noir, 1908
The Secret of the Night

Pierre Loti (1850-1923)

Aziyade, in French
Les Desenchantees

in French without accents
in French with accents

Egypt
An Iceland Fisherman
Madame Chrysantheme, in English
Madame Chrysantheme, in English, translated by Laura Ensor
Le Mariage de Loti (in French without accents)
Ramuntcho, in English

Charles Louandre

La Sorcellerie

Pierre Louys (1870-1925)

Les Chanson de Bilitis

in French with accents
in French without accents

Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898)

Le Corbeau by Edgard Allan Poe, translated by Mallarme
Pages

in French with accents
in French without accents

Hector Malot (1830-1907)

Cara, in French
Conscience, in English

Auguste Maquet (1813-1886)

La Belle Gabrielle

volume 1
volume 2

Marivaux (1688-1763)

A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux

Philippe de Masa (1831-1911)

Zibeline, in English

Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

Bel Ami, in English
Boule de Suif
Clair de Lune

in French with accents
in French without accents

Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales
Complete Short Stories -- 13 volumes in a single file, 180 stories, translated to English by Albert McNaster, A.E. Henderson, Madame Quesada et al.
Contes de la Becasse

in French with accents
in French without accents

Contes de la Jour et de la Nuit
Fort Comme La Mort

in French with accents
in French without accents

Le Horla, in French
Mademoiselle Fifi et Nouvelles Contes
Mademoiselle Fifi

in French with accents
in French without accents

La Main Gauche

in French with accents
in French without accents

Monsieur Parent
Pierre and Jean, translated to English by Clara Bell
Pierre et Jean

in French with accents
in French without accents

Strong as Death, in English
Une Vie, a Piece of Sting, and Other Stories, translated by Albert McMaster et al.
La Vie Errant
Yvette, in English

Prosper Merimee (1803-1870)

Carmen, translated to English by Lady Mary Lloyd
Colomba, 1840, in French
Colomba, translated to English by Lady Mary Lloyd
Quatre Contes
La Venus d'Ille, 1837

Madame Henri de la Ville de Mirmont

Contes de Noel

Moliere (pseudonumn of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673)

Amphritryon, translated to English by A.R. Waller
L'Avare, in French

with accents
without accents
in English

The Bores (Les Facheux in English)
The Countess of Escabagnas
Don Garcia of Navarre (Don Garcie de Navarre in English)
Don Juan, in French

with accents
without accents

L'Etourdi, in French

with accents
without accents

The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire), translated by Charles Wall
The Impostures of Scapin
The Learned Women (Les Femmes Savantes)
The Love Tiff (Le Depit Amoureux in English)
The Magnificent Lovers (Les Amants Magnifique), translated by Charles Wall
Le Mariage Force

with accents
without accents

The Middle Class Gentleman, translated to English by Phililp Dwight Jones
The Miser (L'Avare)
Les Precieuses Ridicules

with accents
without accents

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, translated by Charles Wall
The Pretentious Young Ladies (Les Precieuses Ridicules in English)
Psyche, translated by Charles Wall
The School for Husbands (L'Ecole de Maris in English)
Sganarelle

in French with accents
in French without accents

The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme), translated by Charles Wall
Tartuffe, translated to English by Curtis Hidden Page

about Moliere

Vie de Moliere by Voltaire

with accents
without accents

Another look at Moliere's l'Avare (The Miser) by Richard Seltzer

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Essays, translated to English by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9
Volume 10

Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)

The Confession of a Child of the Century, in English
Oeuvres volume 7, Nouvelles et Contes

Paul de Musset (1804-1880)

Le Chevre Jaune

Georges Ohnet (1848-1918)

L'Ame de Pierre
Serge Panine

Edgar Allan Poe in French translation

Le Corbeau, translated by Stephane Mallarme

Abbe Prevost (1697-1763)

Manon Lescaut

Francois Rabelais (1483-1553)

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty
and Peter Antony Motteux

Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5

Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)

Esther, in French
Phaedra, translated to English by Robert Bruce Boswell

Rene Rapin (1621-1687)

De Carmine Pastorale, in English

Ernest Renan

Vie de Jesus, 1863

Madame de Renneville (1772-1822)

Conversations d'une Petite Fille avec sa Poupee

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

Reflections, translated by Willis Bund
Reflexions, in French

Edmond Rostand (1869-1918)

Chantecler (play)
Cyrano de Bergerac (play), translated to English by Gladys Thomas and Mary Guillemard (1897)
Cyrano de Bergerac in French without accents

C.A. Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869)

Portraits Litteraires

volume 1
volume 2
volume 3

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814)

Paul and Virginia, in English

George Sand (pseudonym of Lucile Amandine Aurore Dupin, the Baronne Dudevant) (1804-1876)

Aldo le Rimeur, in French
Andre, in French
Cesarine Dietrich, in French
Le Chateau des Desertes
Consuelo

volume 1
volume 2
volume 3

Correspondance

volume 1
volume 2
volume 3
volume 4
volume 5

Contes d'une Grand'meere
Cora, in French
La Daniella, in French

volume 1
volume 2

The Devil's Pool
Elle et Lui

in French with accents
in French without accents

Francia: un Bienfait n'est Jamais Perdu, in French
Gabriel, in French
Un Hiver a Majorque, 1855, in French
Horace, in French
Isidore, in French
Jacques, in French
Kourroglou, in French
Lavinia, in French
Leon Leoni, in French
La Marquise, in French
Mattea, in French
Mauprat, translated to English by Stanley Young, includes George Sand by Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie and Life of George Sand by Edmund Gosse
Metella, in French
Le Meunier d'Angibault, in French
Nanon
Nouvelles Lettres d'un Voyageur
L'Orco, in French
Pauline, in French
Le Peche de M. Antoine

volume 1
volume 2

Promenades autour d'un Village
L'Uscoque, in French
Valvedre, in French
about George Sand

George Sand by E. Caro
George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by Rene Doumic, translated to English by Alys Hallard
George Sand - Gustave Flaubert Letters
George Sand et Ses Ami by Albert le Roy

La Comtesse de Segur (1799-1874)

L'Auberge de l'Ange Guardien
Un Bon Petit Diable
Francois le Bossu
Le General Dourakine
Le Mauvais Genie

in French with accents
in French without accents

Les Malheurs de Sophie
Les Memoires d'un Ane
Nouveaux Contes de Fees
Les Petites Filles Modeles, 1857
Les Vacances, 1859

Armand Silvestre

Contes a la Brune
Contes Irreverencieux

in French with accents
in French without accents

Emile Souvestre (1806-1854)

An "Attic" Philosopher, in English

Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783-1842)

L'Abbesse de Castro, in French, with accents
Les Cenci (short story), in French, with accents
La Chartreuse de Parme, in French, with accents
La Duchesse de Palliano (short story), in French, with accents
Le Rouge et Le Noir, in French, with accents
Vittoria Accoramboni (short story), in French, with accents

Eugene Sue (1804-1857)

Mysteries of Paris (in English)

Volume 2 (of 3)
Volume 3 (of 3)

The Wandering Jew (all 11 volumes in a single file), in English

Andre Theuriet (1833-1907)

A Woodland Queen, in English

Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916)

Heures Claires

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

Poems (in English)
Oeuvres Completes

Jules Verne (1828-1905)

20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, in English (1870)

in French with accents
in French without accents

5 Weeks in a Balloon, in English

Cinq Semaines en Ballon in French without accents

800 Leagues on the Amazon, in English
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent
Around the World in 80 Days, in English (1873)

Le tour du monde en 80 jours, in French, with accents

Les Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras
Un Billet de Loterie, 1886
Le Chateau des Carpathe

in French with accents
in French without accents

Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Begum

in French with accents
in French without accents

Dick Sand or a Captain at 15
Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant
Facing the Flag
From the Earth to the Moon, in English (1866)

De la terre a la lune, in French, without accents

L'Ile Mysterieuse
In Search of the Castaways, in English
Les Index Noires

in French with accents
in French without accents

La Jangada: Huit Cent Lieues sur l'Amazone, 1881
Journey to the Interior of the Earth, in English (1864)

Voyage au Centre de la Terre

in French with accents
in French without accents

La Maison a Vapeur: Voyage a travers l'inde spetenrionale, 1880
Master of the World, in English (1904)
Michael Strogoff,

in English
in French with accents

Moon-Voyage
The Mysterious Island, in English (1874)
Nord Contre Sud, 1887
Off on a Comet, in English
Le Pilote du Danube
Robur the Conqueror, in English

in French with accents
in French without accents

Round the Moon, in English

Autour de la lune, in French with accents

Sans Dessus Dessous
Survivors of the Chancellor, in English
Ticket Number 9672 in English
Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
The Underground City, in English
A Voyage in a Balloon, 1852

Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863)

Cinq Mars, in English
Stello, in French

Voltaire (pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

Le Blanc et Le Noir (short)

in French with accents
in French without accents

Candide in French
L'Histoire des Voyages de Scarmentado, in French with accents (short)
L'Ingenu, in French with accents
Jeannot et Colin, in French with accents (short)
Keraban-le-Tetu

volume 1 (in French without accents)
volume 2 (in French without accents)

Letters on England, in English
Memnon, in French with accents (short)
Le Monde Comme Il Va (short)

in French with accents
in French without accents

La Mort de Cesar (play)

in French with accents
in French without accents

Vie de Moliere, in French with accents
Vie de Moliere, in French without accents
Zadig, in French with accents

Emile Zola (1840-1902)

Abbe Mouret's Transgression in English
L'Assommoir (part of Les Rougon-Macquart)

in French with accents
in French without accents
in English

La Bete Humaine

in French with accents
in French without accents

Captain Burle (short story)
La Conquete de Plassans (in French with accents)
Contes a Ninon (in French with accents)
The Death of Olivier Becaille (short story)
Doctor Pascal, in English
Le Docteur Pascal, in French without accents
The Downfall
The Fat and the Thin, in English
La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret

in French with accents
in French without accents

The Fortune of the Rougons, in English
Fruitfulness, in English
Germinal

in French with accents
in French without accents

His Masterpiece, translated by Ernest Vizetelly
A Love Episode
The Miller's Daughter (short story)
Nana, in English
Nana, in French with accents
Le Naturalisme au Theatre
Nouveaux Contes a Ninon (in French with accents)
Une Page d'Amour (in French without accents)
Pot-Bouille

in French with accents
in French without accents

La Terre (in French without accents)
Therese Raquin

in English, translated by Edward Vizetelly
in French with accents

Three Cities, translated by Ernest Vizetelly

Lourdes
Rome
Paris

Le Ventre de Paris (part of Les Rougon-Macquart)

in French with accents
in French without accents

about Emile Zola:

Emile Zola by William Dean Howells
With Zola in England by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
A Zola Dictionary by J. G. Paterson
Quelques Ecrivains francais by Emile Hermequin

in French with accents
in French without accents

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