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On History: Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869) (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), by Jules Michelet, ed. by Lionel Gossman, trans. by Flora Kimmich and Edward K. Kaplan (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: French (v6 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The History of France (part of the "cabinet cyclopaedia"; 3 volumes; London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830-1831), by Eyre Evans Crowe
History of France (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882), by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates (London: Macmillan and Co., 1871), by Charlotte M. Yonge (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
A Popular History of France, From the Earliest Times (Boston: D. Estes and C. E. Lauriat, ca.1870s), by François Guizot, trans. by Robert Black (page images at MOA)
The Progress of Democracy: Illustrated in the History of Gaul and France (New York: J. and H. G. Langley, 1841), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
A Short History of France (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Mary Platt Parmele (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
France: Crossroads of a Continent (with McKay's "The Future of the French Colonies"; Headline Series #49; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1944), by Helen Hill Miller, contrib. by Vernon McKay (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: France -- History -- 1789-1793

La Loge Rouge Dévoilée à Toutes les Têtes Couronnées (new edition, in French; 1790) (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: France -- History -- 1789-1815

The Memoirs of Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Minister of the General Police of France (2 volumes; London: Printed for C. Knight, 1825), by Joseph Fouché, ed. by Alph. de Beauchamp (page images at HathiTrust)
Justification du Gouvernement des Bourbons, Précédé d'un Coup-d'Oeil sur la Révolution Française, et sur le Retour de Buonaparte (in French; Paris: Lenormant; Lyon: Guyot Frères, 1815), by Antoine Faivre (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of a Contemporary: Being Reminiscences (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1902), by Ida Saint-Elme, trans. by Lionel Strachey (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the French Revolution From 1789 to 1814, by M. Mignet (Gutenberg text)
Lazare Carnot: Republican Patriot (Oxford, OH: Mississippi Valley Press, 1940), by Huntley Dupre (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: France -- History -- 1789-1900

The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness, by Victor Hugo, trans. by T. H. Joyce and Arthur Locker (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: France -- History -- 18th century

Critical Miscellanies (4 volumes, published by Macmillan 1904-1909), by John Morley

Filed under: France -- History -- 1914-1940

The German Terror in France (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by Arnold Toynbee (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789

From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), ed. by Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
Old Paris: Its Court and Literary Salons (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1883), by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
Old Paris: Its Court and Literary Salons (2 volumes; Boston: J. Knight Co., 1895), by Catherine Charlotte Jackson
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: France -- History -- Capetians, 987-1328

Chronicon Universale Anonym Laudunensis: Von 1154 bis zum Schluss (1219), für Akademische Übungen (main text in Latin, commentary in German; Leipzig: Dyk; Paris: A. Picard et Fils, 1909), ed. by Alexander Cartellieri and Wolf Stechele
The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050, by Archibald R. Lewis (PDF files at Libro)
La Chevalerie Étampoise: Les Chevaliers et les Vicomtes d'Étampes sous Philippe Ier et Louis VI (in French; Paris: Libr. A. Picard et Fils, 1910), by J. Depoin (PDF at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)

Filed under: France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815

Exposé Fidèle des Faits Authentiquement Prouvés, Qui Ont Précédé et Amené la Journée de Bordeaux, au 12 Mars 1814 (in French; Paris: A. Egron, 1816), by J. S. Rollac
- page images at Gallica
- page images at HathiTrust
The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-1799 (c2002), by Wayne Hanley (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)
Eleven Years' Residence in the Family of Murat, King of Naples (London: How and Parsons, 1841), by Catherine Davies (multiple formats at Google)
The Imperial Guard of Napoleon: From Marengo to Waterloo (New York: C. Scribner, 1851), by J. T. Headley (multiple formats at archive.org)
Du Pape, et de Ses Droits Religieux à l'Occasion du Concordat (2 volumes in 1, in French; Paris: Crapart, Caille et Ravier, 1803), by Abbé Barruel (multiple formats at archive.org)
Histoire des Sociétés Secrètes de l'Armée, et des Conspirations Militaires qui ont eu Pour Objet la Destruction du Gouvernement de Bonaparte (in French, published anonymously but generally attributed to Nodier; Paris: Gide Fils and H. Nicolle, 1815), by Charles Nodier (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal du Lieutenant Woodberry: Campagnes de Portugal et d'Espagne, de France, de Belgique et de France (1813-1815) (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et cie., 1896), by George Woodberry, trans. by Georges Hélie (page images at HathiTrust)
Le Duc d'Enghien, 1772-1804 (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et cie, 1888), by Henri Welschinger
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
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)
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 (New York: Collins and Co. and C. S. Van Winkle, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste-Louis Staël-Holstein
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
La Direction Générale de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie (1810-1815) (extract from Le Livre, in French; 1887), by Henri Welschinger
Die inneren Zustände des Kurfürstentums Hannover unter der Französisch-Westfälischen Herrschaft, 1806-1813 (in German; Hannover and Leipzig: Hahn, 1893-1895), by Friedrich Thimme (page images in Germany)
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (4 volumes; New York: The Century Co., 1915), by William Milligan Sloane

Filed under: France -- History -- Coup d'état, 1851

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, by Karl Marx (HTML at marxists.org)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, by Karl Marx, trans. by Daniel De Leon (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: France -- History -- Directory, 1795-1799

Les Négociations de Lille (1797) (in French; Paris: E. Cornély et cie, 1910), by Charles Ballot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: France -- History -- February Revolution, 1848

The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville (London: H. Henry and Co., 1896), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (multiple formats at archive.org)
Burzhuazīi︠a︡ i Proletarīat v Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡īi︠a︡kh 1830 i 1848 gg vo Frant︠s︡īi (published anonymously in Russian, but attributed in some library catalogs to Magnus; Moscow: A. Pechkovskii, 1906), by Maurice Magnus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Souvenirs Numismatiques de la Révolution de 1848: Recueil Complet des Médailles, Monnaies et Jetons qui ont Paru en France Depuis le 22 Février Jusqu'au 20 Décembre 1848 (in French; Paris: J. Rousseau, ca. 1850), by Félicien de Saulcy
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Histoire des Sociètès Secrètes et du Parti Républicain de 1830 à 1848; Louis-Philippe et la Révolution de Février, portraits, Scènes de Conspirations, Faits Inconnus (in French; Paris: Julien, Lanier, et cie, 1850), by Lucien de La Hodde
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
History of Secret Societies, and of the Republican Party of France From 1830-1848: Containing Sketches of Louis-Philippe and the Revolution of February; Together with Portraits, Conspiracies, and Unpublished Facts (translated from 1850 Paris edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1856), by Lucien de La Hodde, trans. by J. W. Phelps
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Cradle of Rebellions: A History of the Secret Societies of France (New York: J. Bradburn, 1864), by Lucien de La Hodde, trans. by J. W. Phelps
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Cradle of Rebellions: A History of the Secret Societies of France (Galion, OH: A. Estill, 1867), by Lucien de La Hodde, trans. by J. W. Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, by Karl Marx (HTML at marxists.org)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, by Karl Marx, trans. by Daniel De Leon (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: France -- History -- Fiction

The Good Old Times: A Tale of Auvergne (second edition; London: A. Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1857), by Anne Manning (multiple formats at archive.org)
Joseph Balsamo (volume 6 of a 30-volume Works set; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1902), by Alexandre Dumas (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Romance of History: France (2 volumes in 1; New York: J. and J. Harper, 1831), by Leitch Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)

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