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Letters on England
Voltaire
Voltaire’s Letters on England is a series of imagined epistolary sketches in which the French Enlightener…
ReadLe parler populaire des Canadiens français ou, Lexique des canadianismes, acadianismes, anglicismes, américanismes, mots anglais les plus en usage au sein des familles canadiennes et acadiennes françaises
N.-E. Dionne
Ce volume, signé par Narcisse‑Eutrope Dionne, se présente comme un lexique exhaustif du parler populaire des…
ReadL'Oeuvre Poètique de Charles Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire
Ce volume rassemble l’ensemble poétique de Charles Baudelaire, publié sous le titre Les Fleurs du Mal.
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Honoré de Balzac
The work is a sprawling French novel of the nineteenth‑century, set in a Paris that the narrator describes as…
The Miser
Molière
The work is a five‑act comedy by Molière, first performed on 9 September 1668, in which the playwright adapts…
ReadToleration and other essays
Voltaire
This volume gathers a selection of Voltaire’s later anti‑clerical writings, framed by an introductory essay…
ReadDictionnaire de la langue verte
Alfred Delvau
Ce volume est un dictionnaire spécialisé qui recense les mots et expressions de la « langue verte »,…
ReadThe Sacred Beetle, and Others
Jean-Henri Fabre
The work is a natural‑history treatise that begins with a sweeping meditation on the role of maternity in the…
ReadMy Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831
Alexandre Dumas
The volume is a continuation of Alexandre Dumas’s autobiographical series, covering the tumultuous years of…
ReadThe Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories
Honoré de Balzac
This volume gathers three of Balzac’s early forays into the historical novel, each written at a different…
Les misérables Tome II: Cosette
Victor Hugo
Le deuxième tome de Les Misérables se concentre sur Cosette, mais il débute par une scène d’une richesse…
ReadLes trois mousquetaires, Volume 1 (of 2)
Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste
Ce premier volume des Trois Mousquetaires s’inscrit dans le genre de la fiction historique, mêlant aventure,…
ReadLa maison d'un artiste, Tome 1
Edmond de Goncourt
Ce premier tome, signé Edmond de Goncourt, se présente comme un essai‑mémoire consacré à la collection…
ReadGargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
François Rabelais
The work is a French Renaissance romance that blends giant folklore with a vivid, satirical imagination.
The Revolt of the Angels
Anatole France
The work is a French‑origin satire that opens with a sprawling family portrait of the d’Esparvieu clan,…
Original Short Stories — Volume 01
Guy de Maupassant
The volume gathers the early short stories of Guy de Maupassant, a French writer whose literary debut in 1880…
ReadWithin a Budding Grove
Marcel Proust
The work is a French bildungsroman set in the villages and social circles of nineteenth‑century France,…
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
Balzac’s Lost Illusions is a sprawling work of French social fiction that charts the shifting fortunes of its…
Lettres persanes, tome I
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de
Ce premier tome des Lettres persanes, œuvre épistolaire de Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, s’ouvre…
ReadCalligrammes: Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre (1913-1916)
Guillaume Apollinaire
The Nabob
Alphonse Daudet
The Nabob is a French novel set in the glittering yet precarious world of Paris during the Second Empire, and…
ReadMy Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825
Alexandre Dumas
My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825 gathers the scattered notes, anecdotes, and theatrical gossip that…
ReadTwentieth Century French Writers: Reviews and Reminiscences
A. Mary F. Robinson
This work is a compact survey of French literary activity during the first fourteen years of the twentieth…
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
Émile Zola
Four short stories by Émile Zola open with a bustling scene inside the Théâtre des Variétés, where the empty…