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• The Release: or, Caroline's French Kindred (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1896), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Sheaf of Bluebells (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1917), by Baroness Orczy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sheaf of Bluebells (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1917), by Baroness Orczy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

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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

• "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)

• Quatre Batailles: Rivoli, Marengo, Austerlitz, Heilsberg (in French; Paris and Nancy: Berger-Levrault, 1913), by Commandant d' André (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2021), by Elizabeth Andrews Bond
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Project MUSE
  • PDF files with commentary at at JSTOR

• The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2021), by Elizabeth Andrews Bond
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Project MUSE
  • PDF files with commentary at at JSTOR

• 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)

• French Women and the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1984), ed. by Samia I. Spencer (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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

• 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)

• Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)
• The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg text)

• Robert Helmont: Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871 (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1892), by Alphonse Daudet, trans. by Laura Ensor, illust. by G. Picard and Louis Montégut (Gutenberg text)
• The Maids of Paradise (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1903), by Robert W. Chambers, illust. by J. André Castaigne
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Downfall, by Émile Zola, trans. by E. P. Robins (Gutenberg text)
• Lorraine: A Romance, by Robert W. Chambers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Young Franc Tireurs, and Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Leopard and the Lily, by Marjorie Bowen (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Leopard and the Lily (London: Methuen and Co., c1920), by Marjorie Bowen (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

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