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ReadThe Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-Cyr
Maintenon, Madame de; Marie Adelaide, of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy; Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'
The work is a collection of letters exchanged among three prominent women of the late‑seventeenth and…
ReadFrench Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
Marie, de France, active 12th century
This volume gathers English translations of the medieval French romances traditionally attributed to Marie de…
ReadGargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
François Rabelais
This volume is the fourth installment of François Rabelais’s gargantuan saga, a satirical tour de force that…
ReadThe Ladies' Paradise
Émile Zola
The work is Émile Zola’s natural‑ist novel set amid the glittering world of Parisian department stores, where…
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3
Guy de Maupassant
The volume gathers a series of French short stories translated into English, all bearing the unmistakable…
ReadŒuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, tome 1 (of 8): Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Cette première partie de Madame Bovary, tirée de l’édition soignée des manuscrits de Flaubert, s’ouvre sur…
ReadMemoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Complete
Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz
The work is the full memoir of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, a self‑portrait that blends…
ReadGeofroy Tory Painter and engraver; First Royal Printer; reformer of orthography and typography under François I.
Auguste Bernard
This work is a scholarly monograph on Geoffroy Tory, the French painter‑engraver who became the first royal…
Les Chants de Maldoror
comte de Lautréamont
Les Chants de Maldoror se présentent comme un poème fantastique et métamorphique, né d’un manuscrit de 1868…
ReadLove and liberty: A thrilling narrative of the French Revolution of 1792
Alexandre Dumas
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 03
Voltaire
This volume is a philosophical dictionary compiled by Voltaire, gathering his reflections on a single,…
The Lily of the Valley
Honoré de Balzac
The Lily of the Valley is a French historical‑fiction work that blends biographical elements with a deeply…
ReadDangerous Connections, v. 1, 2, 3, 4 A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society.
Choderlos de Laclos
The work is an epistolary collection assembled from a private circle’s correspondence, presented in four…
ReadMolière - Œuvres complètes, Tome 3
Molière
Ce volume rassemble les pièces complètes de Molière, et le troisième tome s’ouvre sur une préface dense qui…
ReadThe Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere
Charles de Coster
The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere is a…
The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
The work is an autobiographical memoir by Louise‑Elisabeth Vigée‑Lebrun, the celebrated French portraitist…
La Légende des Siècles
Victor Hugo
La Légende des Siècles is Victor Hugo’s ambitious poetic project, conceived as a “cyclical work” that seeks…
ReadVie de Tolstoï
Romain Rolland
Ce livre est une biographie de Léon Tolstoï rédigée par Romain Rolland, publiée en 1928 à l’occasion du…
Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte
John Alexander Gunn
The book is a scholarly survey of French philosophical thought from the aftermath of the Revolution through…
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Honoré de Balzac
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is the second instalment of Honoré de Balzac’s three‑part saga that…
International Short Stories: English
The work opens on the day after Donne Fair, setting the scene in a bustling market where Highland drovers are…
ReadLes Français peints par eux-mêmes, tome 2 Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle
Ce deuxième tome de l’« Encyclopédie morale du XIXᵉ siècle » se présente comme un vaste tableau sociologique…
ReadTalleyrand: A Biographical Study
Joseph McCabe
Joseph McCabe’s work is a scholarly biography that seeks to untangle the notoriously opaque life of…
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 04
Voltaire
Voltaire’s A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 04 is a compendium of short essays that treat a single term…