French history, philosophy, literature, and language

<b>French History, Philosophy, Literature, and Language</b> <i>updated 10/23/2008</i>
French History, Philosophy, Literature, and Language updated 10/23/2008
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From the Balzac to the French Revolution, this CD, intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), contains the full text of 1191 books -- history, philosophy, and fiction in English and/or French. For context, it also includes the CIA World Factbook (an enormous collection of interlinked html files).

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Context of the contemporary world

  • The 2008 CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.
    • Country list
    • Other files

French Language

  • French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent
  • Dictionnaire Argot-Francais by Napoleon Hayard
  • Dictionnaire Complet de l'Argot Employe dans Les Mysteres de Paris
  • Glossaire Franco-Canadien et Vocabulaire de Locutions Vicieuses Usitees au Canada by Oscar Dunn
  • La Maniere de Bein Traduire d'une langue en aultre by Estienne Dolet, 1540
  • Recueil des Expression Vicieuses et des Anglicismes le Plus Frequents (Canadian)


French History

  • General
    • History of France by M. Guizot
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
    • History of France by Charlotte Yonge
    • A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele
  • Ancient Times
    • The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar (in Latin)
      • book 1
      • book 2
      • book 3
      • book 4
  • Medieval and Renaissance
    • The Chronicles of Froissart: Narriatve of many of the Battles of the Hundred Year's War  by Jean Froissart
    • The Counts of Gruyere by Mrs. Reginald de Koven
    • The Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bullfinch
    • Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages nd Renaissance by Paul Lacroix
    • Crusades
      • Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade by Geoffrey de Villehardouin
    • Abelard, volume 1  by Charles de Remusat
    • Troubadours by H. J. Chaytor
    • Histoire de Saint Louis, Roi de France by De Bury, in French
    • Charles the Bold (1433-1477) by Ruth Putnam
    • Histoire des Montagnards by Alphonse Esquiros, in French
    • Robert le Premier et Raooul de Bourgogne
    • Joan of Arc
      • A Heroine of France: The Story of Joan of Arc by Evelyn Everett-Green
      • Jeanne d'Arc: Her Life and Death by Mrs. Oliphant
      • Joan of Arc by Lord Ronald Gower
      • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
        • Volume 1
        • Volume 2
    • Proces des Templires by M. Michelet, in French
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
  • Ancien Regime
    • Ancien Regime, lectures by Charles Kingsley
    • Critical Miscellanies by John Morley,
      • volume 2, essay 1, Vauvenargues
      • volume 2 essay 2, Turgot
      • volume 2, essay 3, Condorcet
      • volume 3, essay 8, France in the Eighteenth Century
    • D'Alembert by Joseph Bertrand
    • Diderot and he Encyclopedists by John Morley
    • La Cour de Louis XIV by Imbert de Saint-Armand
    • History of the Rise of the Huguenots by Henry Martyn Baird, volume 1
    • Les Huguenots, Cent ans de persecution by Charles Alfred de Janze
    • Life of Marie de Medicis by Julia Pardoe
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
    • 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)
    • Memoires du Duc de Saint-Simon by H. Taine
    • 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

    • de Pompadour, and of an unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe (7 volumes in one file)
    • 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
    • Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1, The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine
      • Book 1
      • Book 2
      • Book 3
      • Book 4
      • Book 5
  • French Revolution
    • Critical Miscellanies by John Morley, volume 1, essay 1, Robespierre
    • Les Femmes de la Revolution by J. Michelet, in French
    • The French Revolution, a Short History by R.M. Jonston
    • 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
    • Histoire de la Revolution Francaise by M.A. Thiers, in French
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 7
      • volume 8
      • volume 9
      • volume 10
  • Napoleon
    • Boy Life of Napoleon by Eugenie Foa
    • La Confession de Talleyrand, 1754-1838, in French
    • The Court of the Empress Josephine by Imbert de Saint-Amand, translated by Thomas Perry
    • The Eagle of the Empire: a Story of Waterloo [historical novel] by Cyrus Townsend Brady
    • 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
    • Hortense by John S.C. Abbott
    • 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)
    • Memoires de Joseph Fouche, in French
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • Memoires du Duc de Rovigo
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 7
    • Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by John Kendrick Bangs
    • 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)
    • Tendresses Imperiales by Napoleon Bonaparte (excerpts from his letters)
    • 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
    • The Children of France, a book of stories of the heroism and sel-fsacrifice of youthful patriots of France during the Great War by Ruth Royce
    • Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior 1834 to 1859, volume 2
    • Critical Miscellanies by John Morley, volume 2, essay 4, Joseph de Maistre
    • 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
    • En Ballon Pendant le Siege de Paris by Gaston Tissander
    • Bulletin de Lille (published by "l'Authorite Allemande")
      • Dec. 2, 1915
      • Jan. 2, 1916
      • April 2, 1916
      • May 4, 1916
      • June 1, 1916
      • July 2, 1916
    • Fighting France by Stephane Lauzanne, 1918
    • Filleules de Rubens: Histoire Flammande
    • Foch the Man by Clara E. Laughlin
    • France in the 19th Century 1830-1890 by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
    • Memoirs of Prince de Joinville (translated by Lady Mary Cord)
    • 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 Walter, an adapation of "Sophismes Economiques" by Bastiat
    • Sophisms of the Protectionsists, in English
  • Henri Bergson
    • La Philosophie de M. Bergson by Albert Farges
  • Louise Colet
    • Enfances Celebres
  • Auguste Comte
    • Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill
  • Danton (1759-1794)
  •  Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
    • Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
    • A Discourse on a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences, 1649
    • Discours de la Methode, in French
    • Principles of Philosophy
  • Diderot
    • Diderot and the Encyclopaedists by John Morley
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
  • Jean-Henri Fabre
    • Souvenirs Entomologiques, volume 1, in French
  • Emile Faguet (1847–1916)
    • Initiation into Literature, translated by Sir Home Gordon
    • Initiation into Philosophy
    • Etudes Litteraires: Dix-Huitieme Siecle
  • Edmund Gosse
    • Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France
  • 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
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
    • Lamarck, the founder of Evolution by Alpheus S. Packard
  • C. Meillac
    • Les Sports a la Mode
  • Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
    • Le Temple de Gnide
  • 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
  • Hugo Thieme
    • Women of Modern France

Travel in France and by the French

  • Alsace, Lorraine et France rhenane, in French, by Stephen Coube
  • Bearn and the Pyranees: a legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello
  • 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
  • Boulogne-Sur-Mer: St. Patrick's Native Town by WilliaThe Story of Rouen by Theodore Andrea Cook
  • m Canon Fleming
  • Britanny and Its Byways by mrs. Bury Palliser
  • La Cite de Carcassonne by Viollet le Duc
  • Douze Ans de Sejour Dans la Haute-Ethiopie by Arnauld d'Abbadie, volume 1
  • 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
  • Lourdes by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, 1914
  • A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix, 1890
  • Paris Nouveau et Paris Futur by Victor Fournel, in French
  • Paris With Pen and Pencil, Its People and Literature, its Life and Business by David W. Bartlett
  • Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
  • Rouen, Its History and Monuments, a Guide to Strangers by Theod. Liquet, in English
  • Six Mois dan les Montagnes-Rocheuses (Colorado, Utah, Nouveau Mexique) by H. Beaugrand, 1890
  • Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by Edawrd Freeman
  • Souvenirs de Voyage by M. et Mme Mercier-Thoinnet, in French, 1838
  • The Story of Rouen by Theodore Andrea Cook
  • The Stranger in Fance by John Carr, 1803
  • Le Tour de France en Aeroplane by Henry de Graffigny
  • Le Tour du Monde
    • L'Afrique Orientale, in French
    • Sicile, in French
    • Athos, in French
  • Travels Through the south of France and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Lieutenant-Colonel Pinkney of the North American Native Rangers, 1809
  • A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 by Richard Twiss
  • A Year's Journey Through France, and Part of Spain by Philip Thicknesse, 1777
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Voyages Amusant, Collection des Meileur Auteurs Ancien et Modernes edited by Louis-Bathazar Neel
  • Voyages au Temps Jadis by Theodore Aynard, in French
  • 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
  • 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
  • Le Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
  • The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521) translated by Alexander Barlay
  • Le Songe Dore de la Pucelle, anonymous
  • La Terrible et Merveilleuse Vie de Robert le Diable, anonymous

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
  • Le Ramayana, translated from Sanscrit to French by Hippolyte Fauche
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • 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
  • Edgar Allan Poe in French translation
    • Le Corbeau, translated by Stephane Mallarme
    • Histoires Extraordinaires translated by Charles Baudelaire
    • Derniers Contes translated by F. Rabbe
  • 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)
    • Comme Il Vous Plaira (As You Like It)
    • Le Conte d'Hiver (Winter's Tale)
    • Corolian
    • Les Deux Gentilhommes de Verone (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
    • Henri IV, permiere parti
    • Le Jour des Rois ou Ce Que Vous Voudrez
    • Les Joyeuses Bourgeoises de Windsor (Merry Wives of Windsor)
    • Jules Cesar
    • Macbeth
    • Le Marchand de Venise (Merchant of Venice)
    • Mesure Pour Mesure
    • Othello ou le More de Venise
    • Le Roi Jean (King John)
    • Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Ete (Midsummer Night's Dream)
    • Timon d'Athenes
    • Troilus et Cressida
    • La Vie et la Mort du Roi Richard II

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


Edmond About (1828-1885)

  • L'Homme a l'Oreille Cassee, 1862
  • The Man with the Broken Ear, translated by Henry Holt
  • La Mere de la Marquise, in French
  • The Roman Question, 1859


Gustave Aimard

  • Le Fils du Soleil


Amedee Achard

  • Belle-Rose


Jean Aicard

  • Notre-Dame-d'Amour


Alain-Fournier (1886-1914)

  • Le Grand Meaulnes


Alphonse Allais

  • Contes Humoristiques, volume 1
  • Pour Cause de Fin de Bail


Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

  • Alcools (1898-1912)
  • Heresiarque et Cie.
  • Les Trois Don Juan


A. V. Arnault

  • Souvenirs d'un Sexagenaire, in French
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4


Alfred Assollant

  • Aventures Merveilleuses Mas Authentiques du Capitaine Corcoran
  • Brancas et Les Amours de Quaterquem
  • Claude et Juliette
  • Hyacinthe


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
  • 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
  • La Maison du Chat-Qui-Pelote, in French
  • 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

Theodore de Banville

  • Les Parisiennes de Paris
  • Socrate et sa Femme


Maurice Barres

  • Le Culte du Moi
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3


Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

  • Les Fleurs du Mal
  • Journaux Intimes


Rene Bazin (1853-1932)

  • The Ink Stain


M. de Baumarchais

  • La Folle Journee or le Mariage de Figaro


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

  • Jacqueline, in English


Charles de Bernard (1804-1850)

  • Gerfaut, in English


Louis Bertrand

  • Gaspard de la Nuit


Arsene Bessette (Canadian)

  • Le Debutant


Lucien Biart

  • Pile et Face


Boileau (1636-1711)

  • Le Lutrin, in French

Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant

  • Voyage du Prince Fan-Feredin dans la Romancie, 1735


J.N. Bouilly

  • Lenore ou l'Amour Conjugal


Paul Bourget (1852-1935)

about Paul Bourget
  • Essays on Paul Bourget by Mark Twain (short)
  • Physiologie de l'Amour Moderne, in French


Alexis Bouvier

  • La Femme du Mort, in French
    • volume 1
    • volume 2


Rene Boylesve

  • Le Bonheur a Cinq Sous
  • Le Carrosse aux Deux Lezards Verts
  • Le Dangereux June Homme
  • Mademoiselle Cloque
  • Sainte-Marie-des-Fleurs

Brillat-Savarin

  • Physiologie du Gout, in French


Charles Buet

  • Le Chasseur d'Ours


Ernest Capendu

  • Marcof-le-Malouin
  • Le Marquis de Loc-Ronan


Madame Z. Carraud

  • La Petite Jeanne ou le Devoir


Rene Chateaubriand

  • Un Dernier Amour de Rene: Correspondance de Chateaubriand avec la Marquise de V.


Eugene Chavette

  • Le Soucisson a Pattes
    • volume 1
    • volume 2


Andre Chenier

  • Poesies Choisies


Victor Cherbuliez

  • Amours Fragiles


Emile Chevalier

  • Le Chasseur Noir, in French
  • La Capitaine, in French
  • Les Dernier Iroquois, in French
  • La Fille des Indiens Rouges, in French
  • La Fille du Pirate, in French
  • Le Gibet, in French
  • L'Ile de Sable, in French
  • Peaux-rouges et Peaux-Blanches, in French
  • Popignet-D'Acier ou Les Chippiouais
  • La Tete-Plate, in French


Albert Cim

  • Histoire d'un Baiser, in French


Jules Claretie (1840-1913)

  • L'Americaine, in French
  • Prince Zilah, in English
  • Ruines et Fantomes, in French

Marie-Aimery Cominges (AKA Ginko et Bilboa)

  • Le Voluptueux Voyage ou Les Pelerine de Venise, in French


Laure Conan

  • Angeline de Montbrun, in French

Enri Conscience

  • Argent et Noblesse, in French
  • La Tombe de Fer, in French


Benjamin Constant (1767-1840)

  • Adolphe, in French
    • about Benjamin Constant
      • Benjamin Constant by Hippolyte Castille


Francois Coppee (1842-1908)

  • Contes Rapides, in French
  • Henriette, in French
  • A Romance of Youth, in English
  • Promenades et Interieures, in French
  • Ten Tales, in English


Edouard Corbiere

  • Le Negrier
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
  • Scenes de Mer
    • volume 1
    • volume 2

Tristan Corbiere

  • Les Amours Jaunes


Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)

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

Georges Darien

  • Bas les Coeurs!
  • Biribi, Discipline Militaire
  • Les Vrai Sous-Offs (with Edouard Dubus)


Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)

  • Artists' Wives, in English
  • La Belle-Nivernaise, in French
  • Fromont and Risler, in English
  • L'Immortel, in French
  • Lettres de mon Moulin, in French
  • The Nabob, translated to English by W. Blaydes
  • The Nabob, translated by George Burnham Ives
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Le Nabab, in French
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Numa roumestan, Moeurs Parisiennes, 1881
  • Port Tarascon, 1890, in French
  • Tartarin of Tarascon, translated to English by Olvier C. Colt
  • Tartarin sur les Alpes, in French


Ernest Daudet

  • Which? or Between Two Women, translated by Laura Kendall


Marie-Catherine Baronne d'Aulnoy

  • Contes
    • volume 1
    • volume 2


Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889)

  • Les Diaboliques (1850-1874), in French

Madame Emile de Girardin

  • La Canne de M. de Balzac

Charles DeGuise

  • Legende Canadienne: Le Cap au Diable


Albert Delpit

  • Jean-Nu-Pieds
    • volume 1
    • volume 2


Ernest d'Hervilly (1839-1911)

  • Le Chat de Neptune, in French

H. de la Blanchere

  • Le Tresor de Moncalm


Henri de la Chaume

  • Terre-Neuve et les Terre-Neuviennes

G. de la Landelle

  • San-Peur le Corsaire


Leonce de Larmandie

  • Excelsior


Olivier de La Marche

  • Le Chevalier Delibere, in French


Anna, Comtesse de Noailles

  • Les Vivants et les Morts


Isaac de La Peyrere (1594-1676)

  • Relation de L'Islande, 1663


Marquis de Sade

  • Aline et Valcour, in French
    • volume 1
    • volume 2


Ch. des Ecores

  • Expeditions Autour de ma Tente


Nicholas-Marc Le Sieur Desfontaines

  • Eurimedon (play), in French
  • L'Illustre Comedien or Le Martyre de Sainct Genest, 1652, in French
  • La Vraye Suitte du Cid, 1652, in French


Fernand Desnoyers

  • Salon des Refuses, La Peinture in 1863


Madame la Baronne de Stael (1766-1817)

  • Delphine, in French
  • Corinne or Italy, in English, volume 1


Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

  • Le Neveu de Rameau
  • Regrets sur ma Vieille Robe de Chambre
  • Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville, in French

Ernest Doin (1809-1891)

  • Le Conscrit (play)
  • Le Divorce du Tailleur
  • Le Pacha Trompe


Roger Dombre

  • Nounou, Histoire de la Moucheronne
  • Une Pupille Genante


Gustave Droz (1832-1895)

  • Monsieur, Madame, and Bebe, in English


Fortune du Boisgobey

  • La Main Froide


Alexandre Dumas, pere (1802-1870)

Works in English translation
  • The Black Tulip
  • Celebrated Crimes -- 18 books in a single file
    • 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)
  • The Companions of Jehu
  • The Corsican Brothers
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Son of Monte-Cristo
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • The Forty-Five Guardsmen (sequel to Chicot)
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (essay)
  • The Queen's Necklace
  • 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)
Works in French
  • Acte
  • Bric-a-Brac
  • Le Capitaine Arena
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Le Capitaine Pamphile
  • Le Capitaine Paul
  • Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge
  • Le Chevalier d'Harmental
  • Le Collier de la Reine
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Les Compagnons de Jehu, 1857
  • Le Comte de Monte Cristo
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
  • Corricolo
  • La Dame de Monsoreau
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
  • La Femme au Collier de Velours
  • Georges
  • Henri III et Son Cour
  • Histoire d'un Casse-Noisette
  • Les Mille et Un Fantomes
  • Quarante-Cinq (45 Guardsmen in French)
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
  • La Reine Margot
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • La San-Felice
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
    • volume 5
    • volume 6
    • volume 8
    • volume 9
  • Le Speronare
  • Les Trois Mousquetaires in French
    • Les Trois Mousquetaires
    • Vingt Ans Apres
    • Le Vicomte de Bragelonne
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4


Alexandre Dumas, fils

Works in English translation
  • Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)
  • The Son of Clemenceau
Works in French
  • La Dame aux Camilias


Georges Eekhoud

  • Le Cycle Patibulaire
  • La Faneuse d'Amour


Erckmann-Chatrian

  • L'Ami Fritz
  • Contes de la Montagne
  • Madame Therese
  • The Man-Wolf and Other Stories, 1876


Octave Feuillet (1821-1890)

  • Monsieur de Camors, in English


Paul Feval (1817-1887)

  • L'Avaleur de Sabres
  • Le Dernier Vivant, 1871, in French
  • La Fabrique des Crimes, 1866, in French
  • La Fee des Greves, in French
  • Le Loup Blanc, in French
  • La Vampire, in French
  • Maman Leo (= Les Habits Noirs volume 5), 1869, in French


Joseph Fievee

  • Frederic


A. Filiatreault

  • Contes. Anecdotes, et Recits Canadiens


Gustave Flaubert (1804-1876)

  • Bouvard et Pechuchet
    • in French
    • in English
  • Dictionnarie des Idees Recues, in French
  • 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, in French
  • The Temptation of St. Antony, in English
  • Three Short Works (Dance of Death, Legend of Saint-Julien, A Simple Soul), in English
  • Trois Contes (Coeur Simple, La Legende de Saint-Julien, Herodias), in French
about Flaubert
  • The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert
  • George Sand - Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • Quelques Ecrivains francais by Emile Hermequin


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, in English
  • The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, in English
  • Le Jardin d'Epicure, in French
  • The Life of Joan of Arc, translated by Winifred Stephens, volume 1 (of 2)
  • Monsieur Bergeret a Paris, in French
  • A Mummer's Tale, Histoire Comique, translated by Charles Roche
  • 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, in French
  • Thais, in English
  • Thais, in French
  • La Vie Litteraire, in French
    • first series
    • second series
    • third series
    • fourth series
  • The Well of Saint Clare, translated by alfred Allinson


Hector France

  • L'Amour au Pays Bleu
  • Sous le Burnous


Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)

  • L'Affaire Lerouge
  • L'Argent des Autres, in French
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • 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
  • Les Cotillons Celebres,  in French
    • first series
    • second series
  • 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
    • volume 2 in French
  • 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

Jules de Gastyne

  • Le Lys Noir


Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

  • Noa, Noa, in French


Judith Gauthier

  • En Chine


Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)

  • Captain Fracasse, in English
  • La Comedie de la Mort, in French, 1838
  • Mademoiselle de Maupin, in French, 1835
  • Menagerie Intime
  • The Mummy's Foot, in English
  • Sacountala (ballet, livret de Theophile Gautier), in French, 1858


Sophie Gay

  • Ellenore, volume 1, in French


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

  • Germinie Lacerteux, in French
  • Hokousai, l'Art Japonais au XVIIIe Siecle
  • Renee Mauperin, translated by Alys Hallard
  • Journal des Goncout: Memories de la Vie Litteraire, in French
    • first series
      • volume 1 1851-1861
      • volume 2 1862-1865
      • volume 3 1866-1870
    • second series
      • volume 1 1870-1871
      • volume 2 1872-1877
      • volume 3 1878-1884
    • third series
      • volume 1 1885-1888
      • volume 2 1889-1891
      • volume 3 1892-1895

Remy de Gourmont

  • Le Pelerin du Silence
  • Sixtine

Henry Greville

  • L'Expiation de Saveli
  • Suzanne Normis


M. Guizot

  • Etude sur Shakespeare
  • Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de mon temps, 1858
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
    • volume 5
    • volume 6
    • volume 7
    • volume 8


Ludovic Halevy (1834-1908)

  • The Abbe Constantin, in English


Jose-Maria Heredia (1842-1905)

  • Les Trophees

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

  • Actes et Paroles, in French
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
  • Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne, in French
  • L'Esmeralda (play) in French
  • Hernani (play) in French
  • The History of a Crime
  • Legende des Siecles
  • L'Homme Qui Rit, in French
  • The Man Who Laughs
  • Memoirs, in English
  • Les Miserables, translated to English by Isabel Hapgood
  • Les Miserables (in French)
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
    • volume 5
  • Napoleon the Little, in English
  • Napoleon le Petit, in French
  • Notre Dame de Paris (AKA The Hunchback of Notre Dame), in English
  • Notre-Dame de Paris, in French
  • Philosophy volume 1 from Oeuvres
  • Poems
  • Quatrevingt-treize
  • The Toilers of the Sea, in English
  • about Hugo
    • Quelques Ecrivains francais by Emile Hermequin


Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907)

  • Against the Grain
  • En Route, translated by W. Fleming
  • about Huymans
    • J.-K. Huysmans et le Satanisme, in French


Alfred Jarry

  • Ubu Roi, in French


Tristan Klingsor

  • Humoresques


Jean de La Bruyere

  • Les Caracteres, in French, 1696


Madame de Lafayette (1634-1693)

  • The Princess of Cleves, in English
  • La Princesse de Cleves, in French
  • Princess of Monpensier, translated to English by Oliver C. Colt
  • La Princesse de Monpensier, in French


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
  • Fables, in French
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • 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


Georgette Leblanc

  • The Choice of Life, translatedb y Alexander Teixeria de Mattos


Maurice Leblanc

  • The Blonde Lady, in English


G. Le Faure

  • Aventures Extraordinaires d'un Savant Russe, with H. de Graffigny


Jules Lemaitre

  • Les Contemporains, Etudes et Portraits Litteraires
    • first series
    • second series
    • third series
    • seventh series


L. Pamphile Lemay (Canadian)

  • L'Affaire sougraine


Camille Lemonnier

  • Le Possede


Andre Lemoyne

  • Oeuvres


G. Le Notre

  • The House of the Combrays, transalted by Mrs. Joseph Gilder

Madame LeProhon (Canadian)

  • Antoinette de Mirecourt


Jules Lermina

  • La Deux Fois Morte, in French
  • L'Effayante Aventure, in French
  • L'Elixir de Vie, in French
  • Les Loups de Paris, part 2, in French


Gaston Leroux (1868-1927)

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


Maurice Level

  • L'Epouvante


Pierre Loti (1850-1923)

  • Aziyade, in French
  • Le Chateau de la Belle-au-Bois-Dormant
  • Les Desenchantees, in French
  • Egypt
  • An Iceland Fisherman
  • Madame Chrysantheme, in English
  • Madame Chrysantheme, in English, translated by Laura Ensor
  • Le Mariage de Loti (in French without accents)
  • Mon Frere Yves, in French
  • Ramuntcho, in English


Charles Louandre

  • La Sorcellerie


Pierre Louys (1870-1925)

  • Les Chanson de Bilitis, in French


Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898)

  • Le Corbeau by Edgard Allan Poe, translated by Mallarme
  • Pages, in French


Hector Malot (1830-1907)

  • Cara, in French
  • Conscience, in English
  • Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille), in English


Auguste Maquet (1813-1886)

  • La Belle Gabrielle
    • volume 1
    • volume 2


Madame Jeanne Marcel

  • Les Petits Vagabonds


Marivaux (1688-1763)

  • A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux


Joseph Marmette (Canadian)

  • La Fiancee du Rebelle


Philippe de Masa (1831-1911)

  • Zibeline, in English


Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

  • Bel Ami, in English
  • Boule de Suif, in French
  • Clair de Lune, in French
  • 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
  • Contes de la Jour et de la Nuit
  • Fort Comme La Mort, in French
  • Le Horla, in French
  • Mademoiselle Fifi et Nouvelles Contes, in French
  • Mademoiselle Fifi, in English
  • La Main Gauche, in French
  • Monsieur Parent, in French
  • La Petite Roque, in French
  • Pierre and Jean, translated to English by Clara Bell
  • Pierre et Jean, in French
  • Strong as Death, in English
  • Une Vie, a Piece of Sting, and Other Stories, in English translated by Albert McMaster et al.
  • Une Vie, in French
  • La Vie Errant
  • Yvette, in English
  • Works of Guy de Maupassant
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
    • volume 5
    • volume 8


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


Octave Mirbeau

  • Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre


Madame Henri de la Ville de Mirmont

  • Contes de Noel


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

  • Amphritryon, in Enlgish, translated by A.R. Waller
  • L'Avare
    • in French
    • in English
  • The Bores (Les Facheux in English)
  • The Countess of Escabagnas, in English
  • Don Garcia of Navarre (Don Garcie de Navarre in English)
  • Don Juan, in French
  • L'Etourdi, in French
  • The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire), in English, translated by Charles Wall
  • The Impostures of Scapin,in English
  • The Learned Women (Les Femmes Savantes in English)
  • The Love Tiff (Le Depit Amoureux in English)
  • The Magnificent Lovers (Les Amants Magnifique in English), translated by Charles Wall
  • Le Mariage Force, in French
  • Le Medecin Malgre Lui, in French
  • The Middle Class Gentleman, translated to English by Phililp Dwight Jones
  • The Miser (L'Avare), in English
  • Les Precieuses Ridicules, in French
  • Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, translated to English by Charles Wall
  • The Pretentious Young Ladies (Les Precieuses Ridicules in English)
  • Psyche, in english translated by Charles Wall
  • The School for Husbands (L'Ecole de Maris in English)
  • Sganarelle, in French
  • The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme in English), translated by Charles Wall
  • Tartuffe, translated to English by Curtis Hidden Page
about Moliere
  • Vie de Moliere by Voltaire
  • 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


Ph. Mornay

  • A Discourse of Life and Death, translated by the Countesse of Pembroke, 1592


Henry Murger

  • Scenes de la Vie de Boheme
  • Scenes de la Vie de Jeunesse, in French


Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)

  • The Confession of a Child of the Century, in English
  • Oeuvres
    • volume 3, Comedies part 1
    • volume 4, Comedies part 2
    • volume 5, Comedies part 3
    • volume 6, Nouvelles et Contes, part 1
    • volume 7, Nouvelles et Contes, part 2


Paul de Musset (1804-1880)

  • Le Chevre Jaune


Marguerite de Navarre (Margaret of Navarre) (1492-1549)

  • Heptameron (in English)
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4

Charles Nodier

  • Smarra ou Les Demons de la Nuit, 1821


Georges Ohnet (1848-1918)

  • L'Ame de Pierre
  • La Grande Marniere
  • Marchand de Poison
  • Serge Panine


Charlees Perrault

  • Riquet a la Houppe, in French
  • The Tales of Mother Goose, 1696, translated by Charles Welsh

Le Vicomte Ponson du Terrail

  • Les Miseres de Londres
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
  • Le Serment des Hommes Rouges


Abbe Prevost (1697-1763)

  • Manon Lescaut
  • in English
  • in French

Sully Prudhomme

  • Les Vaines Tendresses, 1875


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)

  • Athaliah, translated by J. Donkersley
  • Esther, in French
  • Phaedra, translated to English by Robert Bruce Boswell
  • about Racine
    • Jean Racine by Jules Lemaitre


Rene Rapin (1621-1687)

  • De Carmine Pastorale, in English


Ernest Renan

  • The Life of Jesus, in English
  • Vie de Jesus, in French, 1863


Jules Renard

  • L'Ecornifleur, in French


Madame de Renneville (1772-1822)

  • Conversations d'une Petite Fille avec sa Poupee


Adolphe Rette

  • Au Pays des Lys Noirs, Souvenirs de Jeunesse et d'Age Mur


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
  • The Romancers , a comedy in three acts (Les romanesques), translated by Barrett H. Clark

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


Camille Saint-Saens

  • Rimes Familieres


Pierre Sales

  • Le Sergent Renaud


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

Books in English

Books by George Sand
  • The Devil's Pool translated by George Ives
  • The Devil's Pool translated by Jane Minot Sedgwick and Ellery Sedgwick
  • Mauprat translated by Stanley Young
  • George Sand - Gustave Flaubert Letters translated by A.L. McKenzie
Books about George Sand
  • George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by Rene Doumic, translated by Alys Hallard

Books in French

Books by George Sand
  • Aldo le Rimeur
  • Andre, in French
  • Autour de la Table
  • Cesarine Dietrich
  • Le Chateau des Desertes
  • La Comtesse de Rudolstadt
  • Consuelo, in French, 1861
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
  • Contes d'une Grand-mere, 1876
  • Cora
  • Correspondance
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
    • volume 5
  • La Daniella
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Derniere Aldini
  • Elle et Lui
  • Francia, un bienfait n'est jamais perdu
  • Gabriel
  • Un Hiver a Majorque
  • Horace
  • Isidore
  • Jacques
  • Jean Ziska
  • Journal d'un Voyageur Pendant la Guerre
  • Kourroglou: Epopee Persane
  • Lavinia
  • Legendes Rustiques
  • Leone Leoni
  • Lucrezia Floriani
  • Mademoiselle la Quintinie
  • Les Maitres Sonneurs
  • La Marquise
  • Mattea
  • Metella
  • Le Meunier d'Angibault
  • Nanon, la bibliotheque precieuse
  • Nouvelles Lettres d'un Voyageur
  • Oeuvres Illustreesincludes:
    • Les Visions de la Nuitdan La Campagne
    • La Vallee Noire
    • Une Visite aux catacombes
  • L'Orco
  • Pauline
  • Le Peche de M. Antoine, in French, 1846
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Promenades autour d'un Village
  • Simon
  • Spiridion
  • Teverino
  • L'Uscoque
  • Valentine
  • Valvedre
Books About George Sand
  • George Sand by E. Caro
  • George Sand et ses Amis by Albert Roy


Maurice Sand

  • Mademoiselle de Cerignan, in French


Victorien Sardou

  • La Tosca, (play in 5 acts), in French


Paul Scarron (1610-1660)

  • Le Prince Corsaire, play, in French


La Comtesse de Segur (1799-1874)

  • L'Auberge de l'Ange Guardien, in French
  • Un Bon Petit Diable, in French
  • Francois le Bossu, in French
  • Le General Dourakine, in French
  • Jean Qui Grogne et Jean Qui Rit
  • Le Mauvais Genie, in French
  • Les Malheurs de Sophie, in French
  • Les Memoires d'un Ane, in French
  • Nouveaux Contes de Fees, in French
  • Les Petites Filles Modeles, in French, 1857
  • Les Vacances, in French, 1859


Armand Silvestre

  • Contes a la Brune, in French
  • Contes Irreverencieux, in French


Emile Souvestre (1806-1854)

  • An "Attic" Philosopher, in English


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

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

Eugene Sue (1804-1857)

  • L'Aloutette du Casque ou Victoria la Mere des Camps (in French)
  • The Brass Bell or the Chariot of Death, a Tale of Caesar's Gallic Invasion (in English)
  • A Cardinal Sin (in English)
  • Mysteres de Paris (in French)
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
    • volume 5
  • Mysteries of Paris (in English)
    • Volume 2 (of 3)
    • Volume 3 (of 3)
  • Paula Monti ou L'Hotel Lambert (in French)
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • The Wandering Jew (all 11 volumes in a single file), in English


J.-P. Tardivel

  • Pour la Patrie


Andre Theuriet (1833-1907)

  • Gertrude et Veronique, in French
  • A Woodland Queen, in English


Leon de Tinseau

  • Plus Fort Que la Haine


Victor Tissot

  • Simone, Histoire d'une Jeune Fille Moderne


Gustave Toudouze

  • La Sirene, Souvenir de Capri, 1875

Mario Uchard

  • French and Oriental Love in a Harem, in English


Louis Ulbach

  • La Confession d'un Abbe
  • L'ile des reves, aventures d'un anglais qui s'ennuie


Octave Uzanne

  • Le Calendrier de Venus


Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916)

  • Heures Claires


Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

  • Hombres, in French
  • Poems, in English
  • Oeuvres Completes, in French


Jules Verne (1828-1905)

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, in English (1870)
  • 20,000 Lieus, in French
  • 5 Weeks in a Balloon, in English
  • Cinq Semaines en Ballon in French
  • 800 Leagues on the Amazon, in English
  • The Adventures of a Special Correspondent
  • L'Archipel en Feu, in French
  • All Around the Moon, in English
  • Around the World in 80 Days, in English (1873)
  • Le tour du monde en 80 jours, in French
  • Les Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras
  • Un Billet de Loterie, 1886
  • Celebrated Travels and Travellers. The Exporation of the World, in English
  • Le Chateau des Carpathe, in French
  • Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Begum, in French
  • Dick Sand or a Captain at 15, in English
  • Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant, in French
  • The English at the North Pole, Part 1 of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, in English
  • Face au Drapeau, in French
  • Facing the Flag, in English
  • From the Earth to the Moon, in English (1866)
  • De la terre a la lune, in French
  • L'Ile Mysterieuse, in French
  • In Search of the Castaways, in English
  • In the Year 2889, in English
  • L'Ile a Helice, in French
  • Keraban-le-Tetu
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Les Index Noires, in French
  • 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, French
  • La Maison a Vapeur: Voyage a travers l'inde spetenrionale, 1880
  • Master of the World, in English (1904)
  • Michael Strogoff, in English
  • Michel Strogoff, in French
  • Mistress Branican, in French
  • Moon-Voyage, in English
  • The Mysterious Island, in English, 1874
  • Nord Contre Sud, in French, 1887
  • Off on a Comet, in English
  • Le Pays des Fourrures, in French, 1873
  • Le Pilote du Danube, in French
  • Robur the Conqueror, in English
  • Robur le Conquerant, in French
  • Round the Moon, in English
  • Autour de la lune, in French
  • Sans Dessus Dessous, in French
  • Survivors of the Chancellor, in English
  • Ticket Number 9672 in English
  • Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine, in French
  • The Underground City, in English
  • Le Village Aerien, in French, 1901
  • Une Ville Flottante, in French, 1871
  • A Voyage in a Balloon, in English, 1852
  • The Waif of the Cynthia (with Andre Laurie)


Madame Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun

  • Souvenirs
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3


Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863)

  • Cinq Mars, in English
  • Servitude et Grandeur Militaires
  • Stello, in French


Auguste, Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

  • Le Secret de l'Echafaud
  • Tribulat Bonhomet


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

  • Le Blanc et Le Noir (short), in French
  • Candide
    • in French
    • in English
  • Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad, in English, 1804
  • L'Histoire des Voyages de Scarmentado, in French  (short)
  • L'Ingenu, in French
  • Jeannot et Colin, in French (short)
  • Keraban-le-Tetu, in French
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Letters on England, in English
  • Memnon, in French (short)
  • Le Monde Comme Il Va (short), in French
  • La Mort de Cesar (play)
  • Vie de Moliere, in French
  • Zadig, in French
  • Zadig, in English


Pierre Zaccone

  • Eric le Mendiant, in French
  • La Recluse, in French


Emile Zola (1840-1902)

  • Abbe Mouret's Transgression in English
  • L'Argent, in French
  • L'Assommoir (part of Les Rougon-Macquart)
    • in French
    • in English
  • Au Bonheur des Dames, in French
  • La Bete Humaine, in French
  • Captain Burle (short story), in English
  • La Conquete de Plassans, in French
  • Contes a Ninon, in French
  • La Curee, in French
  • The Death of Olivier Becaille, in English (short story)
  • Le Debacle, in French
  • Doctor Pascal, in English
  • Le Docteur Pascal, in French
  • The Downfall, in French
  • The Dream, in English
  • The Fat and the Thin, in English
  • La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret, in French
  • The Fortune of the Rougons, in English
  • Fruitfulness, in English
  • Germinal, in French
  • His Masterpiece, in English translated by Ernest Vizetelly
  • Lourdes, in French
  • A Love Episode, in English
  • The Miller's Daughter (short story)
  • Nana, in English
  • Nana, in French
  • Le Naturalisme au Theatre, in French
  • Nouveaux Contes a Ninon, in French
  • L'Oeuvre, in French
  • Son Excellence Eugene Rougon, in French
  • Une Page d'Amour, in Frencj
  • Pot-Bouille, in French
  • Le Reve, in French
  • La Terre, in French
  • Therese Raquin
    • in English, translated by Edward Vizetelly
    • in French
  • Three Cities, in English, translated by Ernest Vizetelly
    • Lourdes
    • Rome
    • Paris
  • Le Ventre de Paris (part of Les Rougon-Macquart), in French
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