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Books about France:

• France (2 volumes in 1; 1817), by Lady Sydney Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archives de l'Institut de Paléontologie Humaine (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Les Grottes de Grimaldi (Baoussé-Roussé) (2 volumes in French; Monaco: Impr. de Monaco, 1906-1919), contrib. by L. de Villeneuve, Marcellin Boule, R. Verneau, and Emile Cartailhac
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: page images at Gallica

• Jesuits! (translated from the 10th French edition; Baltimore: J. Murphy and Co., 1879), by Paul Féval, trans. by T. F. Galwey (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the French Protestant Refugees, From the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to Our Own Days (2 volumes, with an American appendix; New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1854), by Charles Weiss, trans. by Henry William Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• French Chivalry: Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Mediaeval France (originally published 1940; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Sidney Painter (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• France: Crossroads of a Continent (with McKay's "The Future of the French Colonies"; Headline Series #49; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1944), by Helen Hill Miller, contrib. by Vernon McKay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ancient Regime, by Hippolyte Taine, trans. by John Durand (Gutenberg text)
• The Modern Regime, by Hippolyte Taine, trans. by John Durand
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• The Origins of Contemporary France (The Ancient Regime; The French Revolution; The Modern Regime), by Hippolyte Taine, trans. by John Durand
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
  • volume 4: Gutenberg text
  • volume 5: Gutenberg text
  • volume 6: Gutenberg text
• Twentieth-Century France: Social, Intellectual, Territorial (London: Chapman and Hall, 1917), by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• History of Civilization in England (new edition, 3 volumes: Toronto: Rose-Belford Pub. Co., 1878), by Henry Thomas Buckle
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text

• France: Crossroads of a Continent (with McKay's "The Future of the French Colonies"; Headline Series #49; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1944), by Helen Hill Miller, contrib. by Vernon McKay (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The French International Accounts, 1880-1913 (Harvard Economic Studies v40; Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933), by Harry Dexter White (page images at HathiTrust)

• French Financial Policy (Foreign Policy Reports v8 #20; 1932), by John C. De Wilde (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century, 1514-1559 (2 volumes; Boston: J. Knight Co., 1896), by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Court of the Tuileries, From the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1883), by Catherine Charlotte Jackson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans: The Second French Empire (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1905), by Thomas W. Evans, ed. by Edward A. Crane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, by Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz (Gutenberg text)
• 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
• The Old Régime: Court, Salons, and Theatres (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1898), by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs du Prince Charles de Clary-et-Aldringen: Trois Mois a Paris Lors du Mariage de l'Empereur Napoléon Ier et de l'Archiduchesse Marie-Louise (second edition, in French; Paris: Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1914), by Karl Joseph von Clary und Aldringen, contrib. by Oskar Mitis and Claude Emmanuel Henri Marie Pimodan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Correspondence of Madame Du Noyer (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1890), by Madame Du Noyer, ed. by Florence Louisa Layard
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• La Vie Intime d'une Reine de France au XVIIe Siècle (in French; Paris: Calmann-Lévy, ca. 1906), by Louis Batiffol
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Marie-Antoinette et les Pamphlets Royalistes et Révolutionnaires, Acec une Bibliographie de Ces Pamphlets: Les Amoureux de la Reine (in French; Paris: Lib. Mondiale, ca. 1907), by Henri d' Alméras (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Marie de Médicis and the French Court in the XVIIth Century (translation of "Vie Intime d'une Reine de France..."; London: Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Louis Batiffol, ed. by H. W. Carless Davis, trans. by Mary King (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 the Court of Louis XIV, and of the Regency, Being the Secret Memoirs of the Mother of the Regent, by Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, by Mme Campan (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London, by Stewarton (Gutenberg text)
• Ninon de l'Enclos and Her Century (New York: Brentano's; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1910), by Mary C. Rowsell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV (London: Duckworth and Co., 1901), by Frantz Funck-Brentano, trans. by George Maidment (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Secret Memoirs of Princess Lamballe: Being Her Journals, Letters, and Conversations During Her Confidential Relations with Marie Antoinette (New York and London: M. Walter Dunne, c1901), by Princess Lamballe, ed. by Catherine Hyde Gouvion Broglie Scolari (DjVu at archive.org)
• Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency, by Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon, trans. by Bayle St. John (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan, Written by Herself, by Madame de Montespan (Gutenberg text)

• Pocket Guide to France (1944), by United States Army Service Forces Information and Education Division
  • page images at digitalnc.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Souvenirs of France (1933), ed. by Rudyard Kipling (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Trails of the Troubadours (New York and London: The Century Co., c1926), by R. D. Jameson, illust. by John Petrina
  • HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Across France in War Time (London et al.: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton, ca. 1916), by W. Fitzwater Wray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anglo-French Reminiscences, 1875-1899 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1900), by Matilda Betham-Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Book of the Cevennes (London: J. Long, c1907), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• East of Paris: Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne, by Matilda Betham-Edwards (Gutenberg text)
• East of Paris: Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1902), by Matilda Betham-Edwards, illust. by Henry E. Detmold (multiple formats at archive.org)
• France of To-Day: A Survey, Comparative and Retrospective (2 volumes; London: Percival and Co., 1892-1894), by Matilda Betham-Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• France, Our Ally: A Brief Account of France, its People, and Their Part in the War, With Special Information for American Soldiers (New York: Pub. for the National War Work Council of Young Men's Christian Associations by Association Press, 1918), by Mrs. John Van Vorst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holidays in Eastern France, by Matilda Betham-Edwards (Gutenberg text)
• The Idler in France (single volume edition), by Marguerite Blessington (Gutenberg text)
• Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862), by Elizabeth Missing Sewell (multiple formats at Google)
• An Inland Voyage (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1878), by Robert Louis Stevenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Inland Voyage (London: Chatto and Windus, 1904), by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Journal and Letters, From France and Great Britain (Troy, NY: N. Tuttle, 1833), by Emma Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Journey Through France in War Time (Cleveland: The Penton press, 1917), by Joseph G. Butler (page images at Gallica)
• La Belle France (London: Daldy, Isbister and Co., 1877), by Bessie Rayner Belloc (multiple formats at Google)
• A Little Tour in France, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• A Motor-Flight Through France (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1908), by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My First Travels (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1859), by Selina Bunbury
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Our Autumn Holiday on French Rivers (London: Bradbury, Agnew, and Co., 1874), by J. L. Molloy, illust. by Linley Sambourne (multiple formats at Google)
• Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (HTML at ibiblio.org)
• Pictures of Travel in the South of France (tenth thousand; London: Offices of the National Illustrated Library, n.d.), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of Europe (Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1837), by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• A Residence in France: With an Excursion up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The River and the Desart: or, Recollections of the Rhone and the Chartreuse (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1838), by Miss Pardoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sketch of Modern France, in a Series of Letters to a Lady of Fashion: Written in the Years 1796 and 1797, During a Tour Through France (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798), by A Lady, ed. by Christopher Lake Moody
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sketches in France (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Spinster's Tour in France, the States of Genoa, &c. During the Year 1827 (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828), by Elizabeth Strutt (multiple formats at Google)
• A Summer Amongst the Bocages and the Vines (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1840), by Louisa Stuart Costello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in France and Italy During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, by Arthur Young (PDF at McMaster)
• Unfrequented France: By River and Mead Town (London: Chapman and Hall, 1910), by Matilda Betham-Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Unfrequented France: By River and Mead Town (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1910), by Matilda Betham-Edwards (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Castles and Châteaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cathedrals of Northern France (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1904), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Cathedrals of Southern France (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1905), by Francis Miltoun, illust. by Blanche McManus
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Falaise, the Town of the Conqueror (Boston: Little, Brown, and company, 1910), by Anna Bowman Dodd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In the Heart of the Vosges, and Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" (1911), by Matilda Betham-Edwards (Gutenberg text)
• In the Heart of the Vosges, and Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" (illustrated; Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Co.; London: Chapman and Hall, 1912), by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• July and August of 1914 (Cleveland: Press of the Brooks Co., 1915), by Mary Raymond Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Literary Rambles in France (from the 1907 Archibald Constable edition, with added illustrations), by Matilda Betham-Edwards (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay (1841), by Emma Roberts (Gutenberg text)
• The Path to Rome, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Roof of France: or, The Causses of the Lozère, by Matilda Betham-Edwards (Gutenberg text)
• Travels in Italy, Between the Years 1792 and 1798, Containing a View of the Late Revolutions in That Country (2 volumes; London: R. Phillips, 1802), by Mariana Starke
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817, by W. D. Fellowes (Gutenberg text)
• An Account of Shelley's Visits to France, Switzerland, and Savoy, in the Years 1814 and 1816; With Extracts From "The History of a Six Weeks' Tour" and "Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni," First Published in the Year 1817 (London: Bliss, Sands, and Porter, 1894), by Charles Isaac Elton, contrib. by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium: Being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe With His North American Indian Collection (1852), by George Catlin
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• France and the Republic: A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the "Centennial" Year 1889 (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890), by William Henry Hurlbert (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People Abroad (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1855), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters, in a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833), by Hermann Pückler-Muskau (multiple formats at archive.org)

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