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• Critical Miscellanies (4 volumes, published by Macmillan 1904-1909), by John Morley
  • Volume I (Robespierre; Carlyle; Byron; Macaulay; Emerson): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Vauvenargugs; Turgot; Condorcet; Joseph de Maistre): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (On Popular Culture; The Death of Mr. Mill; Mr. Mill's Autobiography; The Life of George Eliot; On Pattison's Memoirs; Harriet Martineau; W. R. Greg: A Sketch; France in the Eighteenth Century; The Expansion of England; Auguste Comte): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A New Calendar of Great Men; John Stuart Mill: An Annversary; Lecky on Democracy; A Historical Romance; Democracy and Reaction; Appendix): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Release: or, Caroline's French Kindred (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1896), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Release: or, Caroline's French Kindred (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1896), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• "Proven Patriots": The French Diplomatic Corps, 1789-1799 (St. Andrews, UK: Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St. Andrews, c2011), by Linda Frey and Marsha Frey (PDF at St. Andrews)

• The Revolution Against the Church: From Reason to the Supreme Being (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Michel Vovelle, trans. by Alan José (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Cahiers de Doléances des Communautés en 1789, I: Bailliages de Boulay et de Bouzonville (in French; Metz: G. Scriba, 1908), ed. by N. Dorvaux and P. Lesprand
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Carrier à Nantes: Précis de la Conduite Patriotique et Révolutionnaire des Citoyens de Nantes, en Réponse aux Inculpations de Carrier (in French; Nantes: Vier, 1885), by Charles Dugast-Matifeux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence of Jean-Baptiste Carrier (People's Representative to the Convention), During His Mission in Brittany, 1793-1794 (London and New York: J. Lane, 1920), by Jean-Baptiste Carrier, ed. by E. H. Carrier (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2006), by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, contrib. by Mimi Hellman (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), ed. by Katell Le Bourhis, contrib. by Charles-Otto Zieseniss, Philippe Séguy, Clare Le Corbeiller, Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, Jean Coural, Chantal Gastinel-Coural, Raoul Brunon, Colombe Samoyault-Verlet, and Michele Majer (page images and PDF at metmuseum.org)

• French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1991), by Mary L. Myers (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2006), by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, contrib. by Mimi Hellman (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1979), by James Parker and Clare Le Corbeiller (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England: Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution, and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame du F. (4th edition; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1794), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at Google)

• The Physiocrats: Six Lectures on the French Economistes of the 18th Century, by Henry Higgs (PDF at McMaster)

• Merchants, Landlords, Magistrates: The Depont Family in Eighteenth-Century France (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Robert Forster (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Year of Sorrows: The Great Famine of 1709 in Lyon (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by W. Gregory Monahan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Year of Sorrows: The Great Famine of 1709 in Lyon (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by W. Gregory Monahan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century (2 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1850), by Julia Kavanagh
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• Domestic Enemies: Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cissie C. Fairchilds (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Barristers of Toulouse in the Eighteenth Century (1740-1793) (originally published 1975; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lenard R. Berlanstein (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Domestic Enemies: Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cissie C. Fairchilds (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment: The World and Work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lionel Gossman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Nobility of Toulouse in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Economic Study (originally published 1960; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Robert Forster (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Baron d'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France, by Max Pearson Cushing (Gutenberg text)

• The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Ronen Steinberg (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Carla Alison Hesse (HTML at UC Press)

• Merchants, Landlords, Magistrates: The Depont Family in Eighteenth-Century France (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Robert Forster (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1952), by Shelby T. McCloy (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Lourmarin in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of a French Village (originally published 1971; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Thomas F. Sheppard (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century (2 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1850), by Julia Kavanagh
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

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

• 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)
• 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; US access only)

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

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

• 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

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