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• International Short Stories: French, ed. by Francis J. Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Modern French stories, ed., with notes, exercises, and vocabulary, (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American book company, [c1916]), ed. by Joel Hatheway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Dahlia : heures de loisir. (Paris :bChez Desenne, 1837), by Manual de Boinville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight French stories; (Boston, New York [etc.] Allyn and Bacon, [c1920];), by Edward Manley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories for Ninon. (Lond., William Heinemann, 1897), by Émile Zola (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historiettes modernes; recueillies et annotées (Boston, D. C. Heath and co., 1889-90), by C. Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raznot︠s︡vi︠e︡tnye kamenʹi︠a︡ / (Moskva : Alʹt︠s︡īona, 1914), by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contes fantastiques: Le diable amoureux, par Cazotte; Le de mon marie , par Machiavel; Merveilleuse histoire de Pierre Schle mihl, par Adelbert de Chamisso. (Paris : E. Picard, 1867), by Niccolo Machiavelli, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Jacques Cazotte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les mille et un romans, nouvelles et feuilletons. (Paris : Boulé, 1847-1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from French realists / (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] : American Book Company, 1907), by Lester Burrell Shippee, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, and Nelson Lewis Greene, ed. by Nelson Lewis Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Guy de Maupassant ... (New York, Printed privately for subscribers only, [c1909]), by Guy de Maupassant, trans. by Fanny Rousseau-Wallach, Florence Crew-Jones, and Clara Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dead leman and other tales from the French, (New York, Scribner & Welford, 1889), by Paul Sylvester, trans. by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dix contes modernes des meilleurs auteurs du jour, (Boston, U.S.A., Ginn & Company, 1900), by Henry Austin Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historiettes modernes / (Boston : D. C. Heath and co., 1888-1890), by C. Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petits contes de France / (New York : American Book Company, c1916), by Albert A. Méras and Suzanne Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes divers, (New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's Sons, [c1917]), by Hélène Josephine Harvitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• French short stories of to-day, (New York, Scribner, [c1922]), ed. by Margaret W. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from Guy de Maupassant; ten short stories, (Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company, [c1906]), by Guy de Maupassant, Albert Schinz, and Albert Schinz (page images at HathiTrust)
• La comédie humaine of Honoré de Balzac. (New York : Century, 1911), by Honoré de Balzac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choix de contes contemporains. (New York, Henry Holt and Company, [c1885]), ed. by Bernard Francis O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• French short stories ; (New York, H. Holt and Co., 1907), by Douglas Labaree Buffum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories by foreign authors. (New York : Scribner, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes de la France contemporaine / (Boston ; New York [etc.] : D. C. Heath & co., [1922]), ed. by W. M. Daniels (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Sachet : nouvelles / (Paris : A. Ledoux, 1835), by Philarète Chasles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The twelve best short stories in the French language, (London and Glasgow : Gowans and Gray, limited, 1915), by Auguste Dorchain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les veillées populaires / ([Paris] : J. Bry, [1852?]), by Alfred Delvau, Gottfried Kinkel, Johanna Kinkel, and George Sand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales before supper from Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée ; (New York : Brentano's, c1887), by Edgar Saltus, Prosper Mérimée, and Théophile Gautier, trans. by Myndart Verelst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Veillées normandes, (Paris, Putois-Cretté, 1867), by Marie de Gonneville Mirabeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cuentos escogidos de los mejores autores franceses contemporáneos. (Paris, Casa Editorial Garnier Hermanos, [1913]), ed. by Enrique Gómez Carrillo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La légende dorée de Notre Dame : huit contes pieux du Moyen Age / (Paris : D. A. Longuet, 1921), by Maurice Vloberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Lanterne de Bruant. (Paris : Libr. de la caricature, [1897-1899]), by Aristide Bruant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Un Diamant à dix facettes. (Bruxelles : Société belge de librairie, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un cauchemar : suivi de quelques nouvelles / (Paris : Éditions P. Iribe & Cie., 1913), by André Paysan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• French short stories ; (New York, H. Holt and Co., [1924, c1907]), by Douglas Labaree Buffum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes de toutes les couleurs / (Paris : E. Dentu, 1879), by Victor Hugo and Edmond About (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bird of fate ; A modern Gil Blas and other stories / (London : Methuen, [190-?]), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• French short stories, (New York, Henry Holt, [c1907]), by Douglas Labaree Buffum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historiettes modernes; recueillies et annotées (Boston, D. C. Heath and co., 1889-90), by C. Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choix de nouvelles modernes : Erzählungen zeitgenössischer französischer Schriftsteller / (Bielefeld : A. Klasing, 1906-), by J. Wychgram (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The twelve best short stories in the French language / (London : Gowans and Gray, 1915), by Auguste Dorchain (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'élite : livre des salons / (Paris : Mme V.L. Janet, [1846]), by P. L. Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Favorite French stories, (Boston, New York [etc.] Allyn and Bacon, [c1925]), by Clifford Stetson Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• French short stories,/ (Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1925), by T. B. Rudmose-Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contes et saynètes; (Boston, Ginn & Co., 1900), by T. F. Colin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le livre rose : récits et causeries de jeunes femmes / (Paris : U. Canel, A. Guyot, 1834), by Gabrielle Allan-Dorval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les vieux conteurs fraçais4brevus et corrigés sur les éditions originales, accompagnés de notes et précédés de notices historiques, critiques et bibliographiques / (Paris : a.Desrez, 1841), by Jacques Yver, Queen Marguerite, and Bonaventure Des Périers, ed. by P. L. Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semaine littéraire du Courrier des Êtats-Unis [Selection of novels and short stories] (New York, C. Lassalle, 1866-69) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes choisis: première série (Paris, Librairie Universelle, [1920?]), by Jean Richepin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The dead leman, and other tales from the French / (London : Swan Sonnenschein, 1889), by Andrew Lang and Paul Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes de Figaro, (Paris, E. Monnier et cie, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le nouveau De came ron : premie re [-dixie me] journe e. (Paris : E. Dentu, 1884-87) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dead leman and other tales from the French / (London : [s.n.], 1889), by Andrew Lang and Paul Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Nouveau décaméron. [Conteurs: T. de Banville et al.] (Paris E. Dentu, [1885]), by Théodore Faullain de Banville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cinq histoires; Claretie's Boum-Boum, Dumas' Entrée dans le monde, Maupasant's La parure, Daudet's La chèvre de M. Seguin, Maistre's Les prisonniers du Caucase; (New York, H. Holt & company, 1899), by Alexandre Dumas, Guy de Maupassant, Xavier de Maistre, Alphonse Daudet, and Jules Claretie, ed. by B. Méras and Sigmon M. Stern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The palace of pleasure; an anthology of the novella. (New York, Capricorn Books, 1960), by Maurice Valency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studying the short-story : sixteen short-story classics, with introductions, notes and a new laboratory study method for individual reading and use in colleges and schools / (Springfield, Mass. : Home Correspondence School, c1918), by J. Berg Esenwein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historiettes modernes; recueillies et annotées, (Boston, D. C. Heath and co., 1888-90), by C. Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes français: (New York, H. Holt and company, [c1915]), by Douglas Labaree Buffum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Douze contes nouveauz; (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American book company, [1897]), ed. by C. Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• French short stories, (Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and Company, [c1918]), by Harry Christian Schweikert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le chien de Brisquet, and other stories, (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American Book Company, [c1896]), ed. by L. C. Syms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conteurs catalans : choix de nouvelles et contes des écrivains modernes de la Catalogne, précédés de notes bio-bibliographiques / (Paris : Perrin, 1926), by Albert Schneeberger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seven short stories by French authors / (Cambridge [Eng.] : University press, 1926), by H. J. Chaytor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'ame russe; contes choisis de Pouchkine, Gogol, Tourguenev, Dostoïevsky, Garchine, Léon Golschmann et Ernest Jaubert. (Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1896), by Léon Golshmann and Ernest Jaubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quelques contes des romanciers naturalistes / (Boston : D.C. Heath & company, 1907), by Guy de Maupassant, Émile Zola, and Gustave Flaubert, ed. by Louis Henry Dow and Prescott Orde Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• French short stories / (Chicago, New York : Scott, Foresman and company, [c1920]), by Harry Christian Schweikert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Guy de Maupassant ... / (London, New York : Classic Pub. Co., [1911], [©1911]), by Guy de Maupassant, Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, A. E. Henderson, and Albert Cohn McMaster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recueil de ces messieurs. (Amsterdam [i.e. Paris] : Chez les freres Westein, 1745), by Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Charles Pinot- Duclos, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux Maurepas, and Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern French life / (London : Richard Bentley, 1842), by Mrs. Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'enfant espion, and other stories; (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American Book Company, [1901]), ed. by Reginald Rusden Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contes de la vie rustique; (New York, W. R. Jenkins, [1899]), by Georges Castegnier, Charles Toubin, Juliette Figuier, and Théodore Pavie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Montags-Geschichten / (Basel : Schwabe, 1880), by Alphonse Daudet and Stephan Born (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Horla. (Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1905), by Guy de Maupassant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Best French short stories of 1923/24-1926/27 and the Yearbook of the French short story. (Boston, etc., Small, Maynard & Company.), by Richard Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthologie des conteurs d'aujoud'hui; textes choisis accompagn és de notices bio-bibliographiques. (Paris, Delagrave, 1924), by André Fage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales before supper from Theophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée. (New York, AMS Press, [1970]), by Edgar Saltus, Prosper Mérimée, and Théophile Gautier, trans. by Myndart Verelst (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Été à l'ombre (in French), by Jean Aicard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Récits marocains de la plaine et des monts (in French), by Maurice Le Glay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les deux romanciers (in French), by René Boylesve (Gutenberg ebook)
• La main de Sainte Modestine (in French), by Jeanne Schultz (Gutenberg ebook)
• La biche écrasée (in French), by Pierre Mille (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sur la vaste Terre (in French), by Pierre Mille (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'amour en Russie (in French), by Claude Anet (Gutenberg ebook)
• La petite femme de la mer (in French), by Camille Lemonnier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le Turco (in French), by Edmond About (Gutenberg ebook)
• D'un pays lointain: Miracles; Visages de femmes; Anecdotes (in French), by Remy de Gourmont (Gutenberg ebook)
• Couleurs. Contes nouveaux; suivis de Choses anciennes (in French), by Remy de Gourmont (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nymphes dansant avec des satyres (in French), by René Boylesve (Gutenberg ebook)
• La marchande de petits pains pour les canards (in French), by René Boylesve (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nouveaux contes cruels et propos d'au delà (in French), by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Jeunes-France: romans goguenards; suivis de Contes humoristiques (in French), by Théophile Gautier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Miracles: avec une introduction de Jacques Rivière (in French), by Alain-Fournier, contrib. by Jacques Rivière (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoires magiques (in French), by Remy de Gourmont (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes cruels (in French), by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (Gutenberg ebook)
• La poudre aux yeux (in French), by René Boylesve (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'École des indifférents (in French), by Jean Giraudoux (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les naufragés (in French), by Edmond Haraucourt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les amours du temps passé (in French), by Charles Monselet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes pour les satyres (in French), by Georges Fourest (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le Sylphe: ou, Songe de Mme de R***, écrit par elle-même à Mme de S*** by Crébillon (in French), by Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pâques d'Islande (in French), by Anatole Le Braz (Gutenberg ebook)
• Maanantai-tarinoita: Valikoima (in Finnish), by Alphonse Daudet, trans. by O. A. Kallio (Gutenberg ebook)
• Proses moroses (in French), by Remy de Gourmont (Gutenberg ebook)
• La Mort de la Terre, roman, suivi de contes (in French), by J.-H. Rosny (Gutenberg ebook)
• Œuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, tome 6: Trois contes, suivis de mélanges inédits (in French), by Gustave Flaubert (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bêtes et gens qui s'aimèrent (in French), by Claude Farrère (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le poète assassiné (in French), by Guillaume Apollinaire (Gutenberg ebook)
• La porte des rêves (in French), by Marcel Schwob, illust. by Georges de Feure (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dix-sept histoires de marins (in French), by Claude Farrère (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoires souveraines (in French), by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, illust. by Théo van Rysselberghe (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'extraordinaire aventure d'Achmet Pacha Djemaleddine, pirate, amiral, grand d'Espagne et marquis: avec six autres singulières histoires (in French), by Claude Farrère (Gutenberg ebook)
• Champavert: contes immoraux (in French), by Pétrus Borel, illust. by Adrien Aubry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sanguines (in French), by Pierre Louÿs (Gutenberg ebook)
• Romans et contes (in French), by Théophile Gautier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes de lundi (in French), by Alphonse Daudet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les derniers paysans - Tome 1 (in French), by Émile Souvestre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le Démon de l'Absurde (in French), by Rachilde, contrib. by Marcel Schwob (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoires insolites (in French), by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Aventures d'un fifre. (in French), by Louis Reybaud (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le Capitaine Martin; ou, les Trois croisières (in French), by Louis Reybaud (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le paravent de soie et d'or (in French), by Judith Gautier (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le petit vieux des Batignolles (in French), by Emile Gaboriau (Gutenberg ebook)
• La Coupe; Lupo Liverani; Le Toast; Garnier; Le Contrebandier; La Rêverie à Paris (in French), by George Sand (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le Mariage de Mademoiselle Gimel, Dactylographe (in French), by René Bazin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les réprouvés et les élus (t.1) (in French), by Émile Souvestre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les réprouvés et les élus (t.2) (in French), by Émile Souvestre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dix contes modernes des meilleurs auteurs du jour (in French), by Paul Arène, Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Henry de Forge, Ernest Laut, Guy de Maupassant, Montjoyeux, François de Nion, Jacques Normand, and Jean du Rébrac, ed. by Henry Austin Potter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les derniers paysans - Tome 2 (in French), by Émile Souvestre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes Fantastiques et Contes Littéraires (in French), by Jules Gabriel Janin (Gutenberg ebook)
• La fête (in French), by René Maizeroy (Gutenberg ebook)
• This is not a Story, by Denis Diderot, trans. by Peter Phalen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Coquecigrues (in French), by Jules Renard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le poëme de Myrza - Hamlet (in French), by George Sand (Gutenberg ebook)
• Entretien d'un père avec ses enfants (in French), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Jules Assézat (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les deux amis de Bourbonne (in French), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Jules Assézat (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ceci n'est pas un conte (in French), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Jules Assézat (Gutenberg ebook)
• Au bord du lac: L'Esclave, le Serf, le Chevrier de Lorraine, l'Apprenti (in French), by Émile Souvestre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nélida; Hervé; Julien (in French), by Daniel Stern (Gutenberg ebook)
• Deux et deux font cinq (2 + 2 = 5): oeuvres anthumes (in French), by Alphonse Allais (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'hérésiarque et Cie (in French), by Guillaume Apollinaire (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le bonheur à cinq sous (in French), by René Boylesve (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'île des rêves: Aventures d'un Anglais qui s'ennuie (in French), by Louis Ulbach (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le dangereux jeune homme (in French), by René Boylesve (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes humoristiques - Tome I (in French), by Alphonse Allais (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes rapides (in French), by François Coppée (Gutenberg ebook)
• Quatre contes de Prosper Mérimée (in English and French), by Prosper Mérimée, ed. by Frederic Cornelius Leonard Van Steenderen, contrib. by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les Portes de l'Enfer (in French), by Maurice Level (Gutenberg ebook)
• Les diaboliques (in French), by J. Barbey d'Aurevilly (Gutenberg ebook)
• À se tordre: Histoires chatnoiresques (in French), by Alphonse Allais (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes Français (in French), ed. by Douglas Labaree Buffum, contrib. by Honoré de Balzac, François Coppée, Alphonse Daudet, Erckmann-Chatrian, Théophile Gautier, Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Mérimée, and Alfred de Musset (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes d'Amérique (in French), by Louis Mullem (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes, Nouvelles et Recits (in French), by Jules Gabriel Janin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nouveaux contes extraordinaires (in French), by Bénédict-Henry Révoil (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes de Caliban (in French), by Emile Bergerat (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes à la brune (in French), by Armand Silvestre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes littéraires du bibliophile Jacob à ses petits-enfants (in French), by P. L. Jacob (Gutenberg ebook)
• Contes irrévérencieux (in French), by Armand Silvestre, illust. by P. Kauffmann (Gutenberg ebook)

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