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• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)

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• Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (Oakland: University of California Press, c2017), by Jean Beaman (illustrated HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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

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

• Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore: Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Eugène François Vidocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon's Horse, by Jill, Duchess of Hamilton (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
• Laperouse, by Ernest Scott (Gutenberg text)
• Caesars of the Wilderness: Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1943), by Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons (in French; Paris: D. Moreau, 1632), by Gabriel Sagard (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• 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)

• 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)

• Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (2 volumes; London and New York: The Alexandrian Society, 1922), by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme, trans. by A. R. Allinson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Men of the First French Republic: Political Alignments in the National Convention of 1792 (originally published 1972; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alison Patrick (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Les Vainqueurs de la Bastille (in French; Paris: H. Champion, 1911), by Joseph Durieux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les Comtes de Paris sous la Dynastie Carolingienne (in French; Pontoise: Société Historique du Vexin, 1912), by J. Depoin (PDF at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)

• The History of Napoleon Buonaparte, by J. G. Lockhart (Gutenberg text)

• Incidents (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Roland Barthes, trans. by Richard Howard (HTML at UC Press)

• Le Lieutenant Général Delort, d'Après ses Archives et les Archives du Ministère de la Guerre, 1792-1815 (in French; Paris and Nancy: Berger-Levrault et cie, 1906), by Louis Stouff
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• General Foch, the Man of the Hour (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1918), by R. M. Johnston (page images here at Penn)
• Le Général Compans (1769-1845), d'Après ses Notes de Campagnes et sa Correspondance de 1812 à 1813 (in French; Paris: Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1912), by Maurice Ternaux-Compans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémoires Pour Servir a l'Histoire de la Revolution de Saint-Domingue (2 volumes in French; Paris: Pillet Ainé, 1819), by Pamphile Lacroix
  • Book 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot, Late Lieutenant-General in the French Army (2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913), by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Arthur John Butler
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Oliver C. Colt (Gutenberg text)

• The Mirrour of True Nobility and Gentility: Being the Life of the Renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius, Lord of Pieresk, Senator of the Parliament at Aix (London: Printed by J. Streater for H. Moseley, 1657), by Pierre Gassendi, trans. by William Rand (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• We Survived: At Last I Speak (Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2013), by Léon Malmed (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• Souvenirs de Famille (1823-1866): Recueillis et Commentés (in French; Paris: Impr. Chromotypographique, 1897), by Amable Tronquoy, ed. by Lucien Tronquoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les Florentins à Lyon; Les Florentins en Pologne (in French; Lyon: L. Brun, 1893), by Hippolyte de Charpin-Feugerolles and Louis Fournier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rashi, by Maurice Liber, trans. by Adele Szold Seltzer (Gutenberg text)

• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)

• A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, During the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France (London: Printed by Baylis, 1798), by M. Cléry, trans. by Robert Charles Dallas (page images at Google)

• Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), by Natalie Clifford Barney, ed. by John Spalding Gatton (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Incidents (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Roland Barthes, trans. by Richard Howard (HTML at UC Press)

• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Notice Historique sur Gaspard Monge (in French; Paris: Plancher, 1818), by B. Brisson (page images in France)

• The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Nina Rattner Gelbart (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians, and a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856), by Isaac Jogues and John Gilmary Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life of Philibert Commerson, D. M., Naturalist du Roi: An Old-World Story of French Travel and Science in the Days of Linnaeus (London: J. Murray, 1909), by Samuel Pasfield Oliver, ed. by G. F. Scott Elliot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work; With Translations of His Writings on Organic Evolution (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901), by A. S. Packard, contrib. by Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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