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• French literature -- To 1500 -- Translations into English

• 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)

• The Intruder; The Blind; The Seven Princesses; The Death of Tintagiles (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Richard Hovey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Intruder; The Blind; The Seven Princesses; The Death of Tintagiles (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Richard Hovey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joyzelle; Monna Vanna (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and Alfred Sutro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Beatrice; and Ardiane and Barbe Bleue: Two Plays (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Bernard Miall (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great Modern French Stories: A Chronological Anthology (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1917), ed. by Willard Huntington Wright
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Eight Strokes of the Clock, by Maurice Leblanc (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Friend of Youth: Translated From the French of M. Berquin (2 volumes; Newburyport: Printed by J. Mycall for the proprietor of the Boston Book-Store, ca. 1800), by M. Berquin
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy (new edition, with additional illustrations; London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1898), by Madame d'Aulnoy, trans. by Anne Macdonell and Miss Lee, contrib. by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, illust. by DeWitt Clinton Peters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy (from an 1892 compilation, with additional d'Aulnoy tales from Lang collections), by Madame d'Aulnoy, ed. by Heidi Anne Heiner, trans. by Anne Macdonell and Miss Lee, contrib. by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (HTML with commentary at surlalunefairytales.com)
• Old French Fairy Tales (Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company, c1920), by Sophie Ségur, illust. by Virginia Frances Sterrett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Little Old Man of Batignolles, and Other Stories (London: Vizetelly and Co., 1886), by Emile Gaboriau
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Truth About the Case: The Experiences of M.F. Goron, Ex-Chief of The Paris Detective Police (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1907), by Marie-François Goron, ed. by Albert Keyzer, illust. by Arthur Garfield Dove (page images at HathiTrust)

• Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel, by François Rabelais, trans. by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, illust. by Gustave Doré (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Man-Wolf and Other Tales, by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (Gutenberg text)

• The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, by Queen Marguerite, trans. by Walter K. Kelly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life (from a 3-volume edition), by Guy de Maupassant, contrib. by Paul Bourget and Robert Arnot (HTML at Virginia)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, contrib. by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dēmētrios Vikelas, Maurice Maeterlinck, Camille Lemonnier, and Mór Jókai (Gutenberg text)

• One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories (Paris: Charles Carrington, 1899), ed. by Antoine de La Sale, trans. by Robert B. Douglas, illust. by Léon Lebèque (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Oysters, Nightingales and Cooking Pots: Selected Poetry and Prose in Translation (Heslington, UK: White Rose University Press, c2018), by Tristan Corbière, ed. by Richard Hibbitt and Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe, trans. by Christopher Pilling (multiple formats with commentary at White Rose University press)
• The Book of French Songs, Translated by John Oxenford, Esq.; To Which is Added Miss Costello's Early French Poetry (New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, ca. 1872), trans. by John Oxenford and Louisa Stuart Costello (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Song of Roland, trans. by Jessie Crosland (PDF at In Parentheses)
• The Song of Roland, trans. by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• The Song of Roland, trans. by John O'Hagan
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Song of Roland, Translated Into English Verse (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1913), trans. by Arthur S. Way
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Lais of Marie de France: A Verse Translation (selection of eight of the twelve), by Marie de France, ed. by Judith P. Shoaf (PDF files with commentary at ufl.edu)

• The Book of the Duke of True Lovers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Christine de Pisan, ed. by Alice Kemp-Welch, trans. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Oxford reprint: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Of the Tumbler of Our Lady and Other Miracles, Now Translated from the Middle French (London, Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Alice Kemp-Welch, contrib. by Gautier de Coinci (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old French Romances, Done Into English, trans. by William Morris, contrib. by Joseph Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
• Old-World Love Stories, From the Lays of Marie de France and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends, trans. by Eugene Mason, contrib. by Marie de France, illust. by Reginald L. Knowles (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Aucassin and Nicolette and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends, trans. by Eugene Mason (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• An Anglo-Norman Reader (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by Jane Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• R. Grossetete Carmina Anglo-Normannica: Robert Grossetete's Chasteau D'Amour; To Which Are Added 'La Vie de Sainte Marie Egyptienne' and an English Version of the Chasteau d'Amour (in Anglo-Norman French, and English; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by J. R. Smith, 1852), by Robert Grosseteste, ed. by Matthew Cooke
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• Framing French Culture (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2015), ed. by Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann, and Peter Poiana (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• 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)

• Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Lisa Lowe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• 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)
• A Short History of French Literature (fourth edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• Books and Characters, French and English (c1922), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• Figures of Several Centuries (London: Constable and Co., 1917), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text and page images)
• L'Académie de Castres et la Société de Mlle de Scudéry, 1648-1670 (in French; Castres: Imp. Abeilhou, 1890), by Louis Barbaza
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)
• Les Lettres Françaises (Parisian publication, in French) (partial serial archives)
• Revue des Deux Mondes (in French) (partial serial archives)

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