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• Lettres de Madame de Sévigné : de sa famille et de ses amis (Paris : Chez Janet et Cotelle, 1822-1823), by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sévigné (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France (2 volumes; London: Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans; and John Taylor, 1838-1839), contrib. by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Books and Characters: French and English, by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg ebook)

• Clermontois et Beauvaisis : notes d'histoire et de littérature locales / A. Pinvert. (Paris : A.Fontemoing, 1901), by A. Pinvert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by W. Conyngham Mallory (HTML in Australia)
• The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (London: Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society, 1903), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of Voltaire (2 volumes; London: Smith, Elder, and co., 1903), by Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Mémoires de Marmontel / publiés avec préface, notes et tables, par Maurice Tourneux. (Paris : Librairie des bibliophiles, 1891), by Jean-François Marmontel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. (London, Gibbings & company, ltd., 1901), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau; now for the first time translated into English without expurgation / etchings by Ed. Hedouin. ([Edinburgh : Printed by Oliver and Boyd], 1904), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. (New York : Blanchard, [c1856-57]), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Éloge de J.-J. Rousseau, citoyen de Genève / par Michel-Edme Petit. (Paris : Éditions d'histoire sociale, [1977]), by Michel Edme Petit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rousseau and his era / John Viscount Morley. (London : Macmillan, 1923), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benjamin Constant (in French), by Hippolyte Castille (Gutenberg ebook)
• D'Alembert (in French), by Joseph Bertrand (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, by Victor Hugo (Gutenberg text)
• Ten Years' Exile: or, Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 (London: Printed for Treuttel and Wurtz, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste Louis Staël-Holstein (Gutenberg text)
• Un Portrait Russe: L'œuvre et "Le livre d'une Femme" de Mme. Bagréeff-Spéranski (in French; Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1867), by Victor Duret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zigeunerleben : Scenen aus dem Pariser Literaten- und Künstlerleben / von Henry Murger ; mit einer Biographie Murgers ; deutsch von Robert Habs. (Leipzig : P. Reclam, [1881?]), by Henri Murger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• George Sand / by the late Elme Marie Caro ; translated by Gustave Masson. (London : G. Routledge & Sons, 1888), by Elme Marie Caro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La jeunesse d'un félibre arlésien : Amédée Pichot a Paris (1818-1820) / par Léon-G. Pélissier. (Montpellier : Impr. Centrale du Midi, 1901), by Léon-G. Pélissier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Judith Gautier; par Remy de Gourmont ; portrait-frontispice de John Sargent. (Paris : Bibliothèque internationale d'édition, 1904), by Remy de Gourmont (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Auguste Vacquerie : sa vie et son oeuvre / Georges Bertal ; avec portrait par Henri Lanos et fac-simile ; lettre-préface de Henri de Lapommeraye. (Paris : P. Andréol, 1889), by Georges Bertal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paul et Victor Margueritte, par Edmond Pilon; biographie critique, illustrée d'un portrait-frontispice d'Henry Nocq et d'un autographe, suivie d'opinions et d'une bibliographie. (Paris, E. Sansot & cie, 1905), by Edmond Pilon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Un essayiste Émile Montégut, 1825-1895 / A. Laborde-Milaa. (Paris : M. Escoffier, 1922), by Auguste Laborde-Milaà (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Xavier de Maistre : étude biographique et littéraire : nombreux documents rares ou inédits / Alfred Berthier. (Lyon : Paris : Librairie catholique E. Vitte, 1918), by Alfred Berthier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bon an, mal an. (Paris Perrin, 1908-1915), by Henri Lavedan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Louis Veuillot, vie populaire / François Veuillot. (Paris : Maison de la Bonne Presse, [1913]), by François Veuillot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jean de Tinan / André Lebey ; avec un port. par Maxime Dethomas. (Paris : La Connaissance, 1921), by André Lebey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mes souvenirs littéraires / par Charles Monselet. (Paris : À la librairie illustrée, [1888?]), by Charles Monselet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guy de Maupassant : a biographical study / by Ernest Boyd. (New York : A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Ernest Augustus Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• French poets and novelists / By Henry James, jr. (London : Macmillan, 1878), by Henry James (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stendhal / Alphonse Séché. (Paris : Société des Éditions Louis-Michaud, [1912?]), by Alphonse Séché (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The memoirs of Victor Hugo / with a preface by Paul Meurice, tr. by John W. Harding. (London : Heinemann, 1899), by Victor Hugo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dumas fils / par Eugène de Mirecourt., by Eugène de Mirecourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trente ans de ma vie (de 1795 à 1826), ou, Mémoires politiques et littéraires / de M. de Labouisse-Rochefort. (Toulouse : The Author, 1844-1847), by Auguste de Labouïsse-Rocheford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Victor Hugo / by Frank T. Marzials. (London : Walter Scott, 1888. --), by Frank Thomas Marzials (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3): Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre, by John Morley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Benjamin Constant (in French), by Hippolyte Castille (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prosper Mérimée: Elämäkerta ja teokset kirjallisuushistorialliselta kannalta (in Finnish), by Kasimir Leino (Gutenberg ebook)

• Romain Rolland vivant : 1914-1919 / P.J. Jouve. (Paris : P. Ollendorff, c1900), by Pierre Jean Jouve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Jean Pierre Camus : sein Leben und seine Romane / vorgelegt von Albert Bayer. (Leipzig : Dr. Seele, 1906), by Albert Bayer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Empresa, victorias y desgracias de el principe Carlos Eduardo Stuard, pretendiente de Inglaterra, residente en Roma / traducido de el frances al castellano por D. Victor Amadeo Maria ... (En Valencia : en la imprenta del Diario, 1791), by Victor Amadeo Maria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patin, Guy : tiré de ses conversations, de son Cabinet, de ses Lettres, & de ses autres Ouvrages, avec son portrait historique. (A Amsterdam : chez Henry Schelten ..., 1709), by Guy Patin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarchi Parallela, seu Vitae Parallelae : volumen quartum. (Londini : ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1723), by ca. 46-ca. 119 Plutarco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarchi Parallela, seu Vitae Parallelae : volumen tertium. (Londini : ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1723), by ca. 46-ca. 119 Plutarco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarchi Parallela, seu Vitae Parallelae : volumen quintum. (Londini : ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1724), by ca. 46-ca. 119 Plutarco (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aemylii Probi viri clarissimi De vita excellentium imperatorum liber incipit feliciter. (In Inclyta Brixiæ ciuitate [Brescia] : ... Impressit Iacobus Brita[n]nicus., Anno. M.CCCC. IID. xv. Calen. Octobres. [17 Sept. 1498]), by Cornelius Nepos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum, cum integris notis Jani Gebhardi, Henr. Ernstii, & Jo. Andreae Bosii. Et selectis Andreae Schotti, Dionysii Lambini, Gilberti Longolii, Heironymi Magii, Jo. Savaronis, aliorumque doctorum: nec non excerptis P. Danielis. Hisce accedit locupletissimus omnium vocabulorum index, studio & opera Jo. Andr. Bosii confectus. Curante Augustino van Staveren. Qui & suas notis addidit (Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1734), by Cornelius Nepos (page images at HathiTrust)

• Epitaphia ioco-seria latina, gallica, italica, hispanica, lusitanica, belgica / Franciscus Suuertius ... collegit ... (Coloniae : apud Bernardum Gualtheri, 1623) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Table-Talk of John Selden (second edition; London: J. R. Smith, 1856), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Weller Singer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Table Talk of John Selden (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Harvey Reynolds (multiple formats at archive.org)

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