French History, Philosophy, Literature, and Language

Copyright © 2003 Richard Seltzer

This Web page shows the table of contents of our French CD, with 1496 books. Internal links will take you to the various sections, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD.

This CD was compiled by Richard Seltzer. The books themselves are in the public domain. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com

This French CD with 1191 classic books of French history, philosophy, and literature in plain text, is available for $19 at our online store.

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document. You can contact us at seltzer@samizdat.com, B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132-002. 617-469-2269.

User's Guide: Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD

If you would like to have your PC (with speakers) read these texts aloud to you, while they are displayed in text on the screen, see below about the free ReadPlease software that we have included on this CD.

The books on this CD are in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.

Click on a period or war to go to one of the major sections of this index page.

These books are in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.  You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

We publish plain text books (unencrypted) on CD, and we want to provide a simple way for customers and other interested people to share their insights into how to get the most out of this new way of reading and studying. To do so we have set up an email discussion group at Yahoo. All are welcome to join and to post here, but I'll manage this group in "moderated" style, filtering messages before they go out to the whole group, to control the volume of the messages and to make sure that they are on-topic. Tips and information that would be helpful to people you have plain text books on CD are welcome -- including examples of how you are using yours, suggestions for improvement,  suggestions for future CDs, and useful/interesting texts found on the Web that should be included in future CDs. To subscribe, go to the discussion group Web site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaintextbooksoncd  or send a blank email to plaintextbooksoncd-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Table of Contents of French History, Philosophy, Literature, and Language

This French CD with 1496 classic books of French history, philosophy, and literature in plain text, and with software that lets you listen as well as read, is available for $19 at our online store.

French Language

French History

French Philosophy, Science, and Social Science

Travel in France and by the French

French Literature

Medieval and Renaissance French Literature

Translations to French

Anthologies and Magazines

General and Criticism

Edmond About (1828-1885)

Gustave Aimard

Amedee Achard

Paul Adam (1862-1920)

Lucie des Ages

Jean Aicard

Alain-Fournier (1886-1914)

Alphonse Allais

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

A. V. Arnault

Alfred Assollant (1827-1886)

Raymond Auzias-Turenne

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

about the Human Comedie about Balzac

Theodore de Banville

Maurice Barres

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

Rene Bazin (1853-1932)

M. de Baumarchais

Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

Therese Bentzon (pseudonym of Marie Therese Blanc) (1840-1907)

Charles de Bernard (1804-1850)

Louis Bertrand

Arsene Bessette (Canadian)

Lucien Biart

Georges Bizet

Boileau (1636-1711)

Leon Boillot

Paul Boiteau d'Ambly (1830-1886)

Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant

J.N. Bouilly

Paul Bourget (1852-1935)

  • Cosmopolis, in English
  • about Paul Bourget

    • Alexis Bouvier

    Rene Boylesve

    Brillat-Savarin

    David Brossard

    Charles Buet

    Berthe de Buxy (1863-1921)

    Jean Baptiste Caouette (1854-1922

    Ernest Capendu

    Madame Z. Carraud

    Jean de Castel

    Guy Chantepleure

    Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805)

    Rene Chateaubriand

    Eugene Chavette

    Andre Chenier

    Victor Cherbuliez

    Emile Chevalier

    Albert Cim

    Jules Claretie (1840-1913)

    Marie-Aimery Cominges (AKA Ginko et Bilboa)

    Laure Conan

    Charles-Marie de la Condamine

    Henri Conscience

    Benjamin Constant (1767-1840)

    Francois Coppee (1842-1908)

    Edouard Corbiere

    Tristan Corbiere

    Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)

    Madame Sophie Cottin (1770-1807)

    Henri Croy

    Francois Berenger de la Tour d'Albenas

    N. D'Anvers (?-1933)

    Georges Darien

    Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)

    Ernest Daudet

    Marie-Catherine Baronne d'Aulnoy

    Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889)

    Madame Emile de Girardin

    Charles DeGuise

    Delly

    Albert Delpit

    Vivant Denon (1747-1825)

    Ernest d'Hervilly (1839-1911)

    H. de la Blanchere

    Henri de la Chaume

    G. de la Landelle

    Leonce de Larmandie

    Olivier de La Marche

    Anna, Comtesse de Noailles

    Isaac de La Peyrere (1594-1676)

    Marquis de Sade

    M. Emile Deschanel (1819-1904)

    Ch. des Ecores

    Nicholas-Marc Le Sieur Desfontaines

    Fernand Desnoyers

    Madame la Baronne de Stael (1766-1817)

    Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

    Ernest Doin (1809-1891)

    Roger Dombre

    Noemie Dondel du Faoudic

    Gustave Droz (1832-1895)

    Fortune du Boisgobey

    Alexandre Dumas, pere (1802-1870)

    Works in English translation Works in French

    Alexandre Dumas, fils

    Works in English translation Works in French

    Claire de Dufort, Duchesse de Duras (1777-1828)

    Georges Eekhoud

    Erckmann-Chatrian

    Fagan (1702-1755)

    Octave Feuillet (1821-1890)

    Paul Feval (1817-1887)

    Joseph Fievee

    A. Filiatreault

    Gustave Flaubert (1804-1876)

    about Flaubert

    Dolent Fortune

    Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron (1706-1760)

    L. Becq de Fouquieres

    Anatole France (pseudonym of Jacques-Anatole Thibault) (1844-1924)

    Hector France

    Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)

    Jules de Gastyne

    Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

    Judith Gauthier

    Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)

    Sophie Gay

    Paul de la Gironiere

    Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896) and Goncourt, Jules de (1830-1870)

    Remy de Gourmont

    Henri Greville

    Guyon Guerin de Bouscal (? - 1657)

    M. Guizot

     Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (1648-1717)

    Ludovic Halevy (1834-1908)

    Louis Hemon

    Alfred Hennequin (1842-1887)

    Jose-Maria Heredia (1842-1905)

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

    Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907)

    Jules Janin

    Alfred Jarry

    Tristan Klingsor

    Barbara Juliane, Freifrau von Krudener (1764-1824)

    Jean de La Bruyere

    Madame de Lafayette (1634-1693)

    Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)

    Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)

    Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest (1853-1902)

    Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864)

    Henriette Lucie Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin (1770-1853)

    Le Comte de Lautreamont (= Isidore Lucien Ducasse) (1846-1870)

    Gaston Lavalley

    Georgette Leblanc

    Maurice Leblanc

    G. Le Faure

    Jules Lemaitre

    L. Pamphile Lemay (Canadian)

    Camille Lemonnier

    Andre Lemoyne

    G. Le Notre

    Madame LeProhon (Canadian)

    Jules Lermina

    Gaston Leroux (1868-1927)

    Maurice Level

    Pierre Loti (1850-1923)

    Charles Louandre

    Pierre Louys (1870-1925)

    Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898)

    Hector Malot (1830-1907)

    Auguste Maquet (1813-1886)

    Madame Jeanne Marcel

    Paul Margueritte (1860-1918)

    Marivaux (1688-1763)

    Joseph Marmette (Canadian)

    Mademoiselle Mars (1779-1847)

    Martial d'Auvergne (? - 1508)

    Philippe de Masa (1831-1911)

    Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

    Claude-Francois-Xavier Mercier de Compiegne (1763-1800)

    Prosper Merimee (1803-1870)

    Stuart Merrill

    J. Michelet

    Honore-Gabriel de Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)

    Octave Mirbeau

    Madame Henri de la Ville de Mirmont

    Moliere (pseudonumn of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673)

    about Moliere

    Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

    Charles de Secondar, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)

    Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832)

    Ph. Mornay

    Henry Murger

    Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)

    Paul de Musset (1804-1880)

    Ernest Myrand (1854-1921)

    Marguerite de Navarre (Margaret of Navarre) (1492-1549)

    Charles Nodier (1780-1844)

    Georges Ohnet (1848-1918)

    Paul Ollendorff

    Evariste Parny (1753-1814)

    Charles Perrault

    Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835)

    Le Vicomte Ponson du Terrail

    Madame E. de Pressense (1826-1901

    Abbe Prevost (1697-1763)

    Marcel Proust

    Sully Prudhomme

    Antoine Quartier

    Marie Quinton

    Francois Rabelais (1483-1553)

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty
    and Peter Antony Motteux

    Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)

    Rene Rapin (1621-1687)

    Ernest Renan

    Jules Renard

    Madame de Renneville (1772-1822)

    Restif de La Bretonne (1734-1806)

    Adolphe Rette

    Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

    Edmond Rostand (1869-1918)

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

    Lyons des Roys

    C.A. Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869)

    Ida Saint-Elme (1778-1845)

    Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814)

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Pierre Sales

    George Sand (pseudonym of Lucile Amandine Aurore Dupin, the Baronne Dudevant) (1804-1876)

    Books in English

    Books by George Sand Books about George Sand

    Books in French

    Books by George Sand Books About George Sand

    Maurice Sand

    Victorien Sardou

    Paul Scarron (1610-1660)

    La Comtesse de Segur (1799-1874)

    Armand Silvestre

    Emile Souvestre (1806-1854)

    Adelaide-Marie-Emilie Filleul Marquise de Souza-Botelho (1761-1836)

    Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783-1842)

    Daniel Stern

    Eugene Sue (1804-1857)

    J.-P. Tardivel

    Jules Tellier (1863-1889)

    Andre Theuriet (1833-1907)

    Leon de Tinseau

    Victor Tissot

    Gustave Toudouze

    Mario Uchard

    Louis Ulbach

    Octave Uzanne

    Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916)

    Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

    Jules Verne (1828-1905)

    Madame Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun

    Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863)

    Auguste, Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

    Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879(

    Voltaire (pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

    Pierre Zaccone

    Emile Zola (1840-1902)

    about Emile Zola:

    This French CD with 1496 classic books of French history, philosophy, and literature in plain text, and with software that lets you listen as well as read, is available for $19 at our online store.

    How to install and use the free ReadPlease software included on this CD

    Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on your computer or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select which version you want to install and the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.

    When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows).

    When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

    Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer, more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their Web site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.  And you can contact them at: ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702

    Tips for using/enjoying the texts on this CD:

    The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your CD drive, then on index.html. (That should bring you to here, in Word or your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.)

    From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here.  Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.

    When you stop reading, jot down the last phrase (a unique set of words) so you can search for that the next time you want to read and easily find the spot where you left off.

    If you just want to read and if you have a large screen, use your browser and under View increase the type size to meet your taste.

    If you just want to read and you have a small screen, try using WordPad or Word.

    If you want to take notes while you read, first save the file on your hard drive, then open it in WordPad or Word, enter your notes with the text (making them distinctive with bold or italic or by enclosing them in brackets] as you go along, and save the entire file, with those changes, when you are done.

    If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).

    Note regarding copyright:  On our "Classic Collections" CDs, we include works published in the US before 1923, works from Australia and Canada when the author died 50 years or more ago, and works from the European Union (including the United Kingdom and Ireland) when the author died 70 years or more ago. NB -- Due to The European Union's extension of copyright by 20 years to 70 years after the death of the author many works which had been in the public domain under the previous law are now once again under copyright. Hence we are unable to include on our CDs some popular writers whose works are still readily available over the Internet.


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