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• Le panthéon de poche (in French), by Pierre Véron (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Les Rues de Paris, tome deuxième: Biographies, portraits, récits et légendes (in French), by Bathild Bouniol (Gutenberg ebook)
• Visages d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (in French), by André Beaunier (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Friends of Voltaire, by Evelyn Beatrice Hall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome sixième: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle (in French), by Tallemant des Réaux, ed. by H. de Chateaugiron, L.-J.-N. Monmerqué, and Jules-Antoine Taschereau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome cinquième: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle (in French), by Tallemant des Réaux, ed. by H. de Chateaugiron, L.-J.-N. Monmerqué, and Jules-Antoine Taschereau (Gutenberg ebook)
• The book of the ladies: Illustrious Dames: The Reign and Amours of the Bourbon Régime, by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme, contrib. by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome quatrième: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle (in French), by Tallemant des Réaux, ed. by H. de Chateaugiron, L.-J.-N. Monmerqué, and Jules-Antoine Taschereau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome troisième: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle (in French), by Tallemant des Réaux, ed. by H. de Chateaugiron, L.-J.-N. Monmerqué, and Jules-Antoine Taschereau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome second: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle (in French), by Tallemant des Réaux, ed. by H. de Chateaugiron, L.-J.-N. Monmerqué, and Jules-Antoine Taschereau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Rues de Paris, tome troisième: Biographies, portraits, récits et légendes (in French), by Bathild Bouniol (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome premier: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle (in French), by Tallemant des Réaux, ed. by H. de Chateaugiron, L.-J.-N. Monmerqué, and Jules-Antoine Taschereau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les rues de Paris, tome premier: Biographies, portraits, récits et légendes (in French), by Bathild Bouniol (Gutenberg ebook)

• Le panthéon de poche (in French), by Pierre Véron (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Character of France to which is added, Gallus Castratus, or, An answer to a late slanderous pamphlet, called, The character of England. (London : Printed for Nath. Brooke ..., 1659) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Annales des Professeurs des Académies et Universités Alsaciennes, 1523-1871 (in French; Nancy: Impr. Berger-Levrault et cie, 1892), by Oscar Berger-Levrault
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rough in Brutal Print: The Legal Sources of Browning's Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Mark Siegchrist (PDF at Ohio State)

• Soeur Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte Face: Histoire d'une âme écrite par elle-même (in French), by de Lisieux Thérèse (Gutenberg ebook)

• Frédéric Mistral: Poet and Leader in Provence, by Charles Alfred Downer (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Autobiography of Guibert, Abbot of Nogentsous-Coucy, by Guibert of Nogent, trans. by C. C. Swinton Bland (HTML at Fordham)

• My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)

• Mémoires de Céleste Mogador, Volume 4 (in French), by Céleste Vénard de Chabrillan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mémoires de Céleste Mogador, Volume 3 (in French), by Céleste Vénard de Chabrillan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mémoires de Céleste Mogador, Volume 2 (in French), by Céleste Vénard de Chabrillan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mémoires de Céleste Mogador, Volume 1 (in French), by Céleste Vénard de Chabrillan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Later Queens of the French Stage, by H. Noel Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Queens of the French Stage, by H. Noel Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mémoires inédits de Mademoiselle George, publiés d'après le manuscrit original (in French), by Mademoiselle George, contrib. by Paul Arthur Cheramy (Gutenberg ebook)

• Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air, by Henry Bordeaux, trans. by Louise Morgan Sill, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (Gutenberg ebook)

• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by James R. McConnell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun, by James R. McConnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Geofroy Tory: Painter and engraver; first royal printer; reformer of orthography and typography under François I., by Auguste Bernard, trans. by George Burnham Ives (Gutenberg ebook)

• Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes, by Peter Abelard, trans. by Henry Adams Bellows (HTML at Fordham)
• Historia Calamitatum, by Peter Abelard (Gutenberg ebook)

• Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006), by Elinor Ann Accampo (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Vie du cardinal, duc de Richelieu. English (London : Printed for M. Gillyflower ... W. Freeman ... J. Walthoe ... and R. Parker ..., 1695), by Jean Le Clerc and Thomas Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Vie du cardinal, duc de Richelieu. English (London : Printed for M. Gillyflower ... W. Freeman ... J. Walthoe ... and R. Parker ..., 1695), by Jean Le Clerc, Thomas Brown, and Peter Paul Bouche (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• La vie d'Ernest Psichari (in French), by Henri Massis (Gutenberg ebook)

• Autobiography of Madame Guyon, by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Autobiography of Madame Guyon (2 volumes; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1898), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, trans. by Thomas Taylor Allen
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Autobiography of Madame Guyon, by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (Gutenberg ebook)

• Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie, trans. by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon L. Kellogg, contrib. by Marie Mattingly Meloney (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Sword of God: Jeanne d'Arc (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1931), by S. Guy Endore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abrégé de la vie de Mr. Claude. English (London : Printed for Thomas Dring ..., 1688), by Abel-Rodolphe de Ladevèze and G. P. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself in His Letters and Memoirs, by Hector Berlioz, trans. by Katharine F. Boult (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mes souvenirs (1848-1912) (in French), by Jules Massenet (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Recollections, by Jules Massenet, trans. by H. Villiers Barnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Charles Gounod: Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music, by Charles Gounod, trans. by W. Hely Hutchinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868 (in French), by Hector Berlioz, ed. by Daniel Bernard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mémoires de Hector Berlioz: comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865 (in French), by Hector Berlioz (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mémoires d'un artiste (in French), by Charles Gounod (Gutenberg ebook)

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