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• French literature -- To 1500
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• French literature -- Women authors
• Belgian literature (French)
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• Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)

• Convergences: Rhetoric and Poetic in Seventeenth-Century France: Essays fo Hugh H. Davidson (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), ed. by David Lee Rubin and Mary B. McKinley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Love and Language: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by Louise K. Horowitz (PDF at Ohio State)
• Audience, Words, and Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century French Rhetoric (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1965), by Hugh McCullough Davidson (PDF files at Ohio State)

• In the Grip of Minos: Confessional Discourse in Dante, Corneille, and Racine, by Matthew Senior
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Joan E. DeJean (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by David Lee Rubin (PDF at Ohio State)

• Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Bethany Wiggin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c2016), ed. by Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Margaret Conway, contrib. by Ruth Mack, Jonathan Brody Kramnick, David Alvarez, Sara Landreth, Sarah Ellenzweig, Kate E. Tunstall, Joanna Stalnaker, and Vivasvan Soni
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Literature and History in the Age of Ideas: Essays on the French Enlightenment, Presented to George R. Havens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), ed. by Charles G. S. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution (c2002), by Gregory S. Brown (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Bethany Wiggin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• De Quelques Coeurs Inquiets: Petits Essais de Psychologie Religieuse (in French; Paris: Societe Litteraire de France, ca. 1919), by François Mauriac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pre-Text, Text, Context: Essays on Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1980), ed. by Robert L. Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)
• Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Geoffrey Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Nouveaux Essais sur la Littérature Contemporaine (third edition, in French; Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1897), by Ferdinand Brunetière
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Symbolist Movement in Literature (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., c1919), by Arthur Symons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Influence of Baudelaire in France and England (London: Constable and Company, 1913), by Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Contemporary Drama of France (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1920), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Modern French Drama: Seven Essays (London: Chapman and Hall, 1898), by Augustin Filon, trans. by Janet E. Courtney, contrib. by W. L. Courtney (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Enemy Within: Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Gilbert D. Chaitin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Kelly (PDF at PSU)
• Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Roy Jay Nelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Word and Figure: The Language of Nineteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Carol de Dobay Rifelj (PDF at Ohio State)

• La Jeune France (partial serial archives)
• Entretiens Politiques et Littéraires (1890-1893) (partial serial archives)

• The Contemporary Drama of France (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1920), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Roy Jay Nelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Action: Cahiers Individualistes de Philosophie et d'Art (in French; 1920-1922) (partial serial archives)
• Proverbe (French Dadaist and literary magazine; 1920-1921), ed. by Paul Éluard (full serial archives)
• Nord-Sud: Revue Littéraire (in French; 1917-1918) (full serial archives)

• Catalogue of Books in English, French and German Belonging to the Class of Prose Fiction (Cincinnati: Board of Managers of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 1876), by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Nouveaux Prétextes: Réflexions sur Quelques Points de Littérature et de Morale (8th edition, in French; Paris: Mercure de France, 1921), by André Gide (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Landmarks in French Literature (1912), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Rambles in France (from the 1907 Archibald Constable edition, with added illustrations), by Matilda Betham-Edwards (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Prétextes: Réflexions sur Quelques Points de Littérature et de Morale (7th edition, in French; Paris: Mercure de France, 1919), by André Gide (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Books and Characters, French and English (c1922), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• L'Académie de Castres et la Société de Mlle de Scudéry, 1648-1670 (in French; Castres: Imp. Abeilhou, 1890), by Louis Barbaza
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Women of the French Salons, by Amelia Gere Mason (Gutenberg text)

• Engraven Desire: Eros, Image and Text in the French Eighteenth Century (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Philip Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ailleurs (French-language literary journal, 1963-1966) (full serial archives)
• Les Oeuvres Libres (in French; 1921-1964) (partial serial archives)
• La Petite Illustration (partial serial archives)

• Half-Hours with the Best French Authors: Short Passages From Some of the Most Celebrated Prose Writers, Translated Into English (New York: D. Appleton, 1867), illust. by Emile Bayard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dialogues in French and English (Adapted From a Fourteenth-Century Book of Dialogues in French and Flemish) (London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and co., 1900), by William Caxton, ed. by Henry Bradley
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• French Lyrics (with extensive English notes), ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield (Gutenberg text)

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