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French
Printed Editions

7 titles in French, printed in the original — Voltaire, Charles Perrault, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and 3 others. No English introductions, no commentary, just the text.

7 titles · every one a 6 × 9in hardcover

CANDIDE, OU L’OPTIMISME

Candide, or Optimism

Voltaire

Voltaire’s tale of the best of all possible worlds, thirty chapters, in the French of the Garnier edition. Complete in 132 pages, in the original French; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 132pp · French · casewrap

$21.99

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Contes

Tales

Charles Perrault

Perrault's tales in the original French, eleven in all — both the prose and the verse. 160 pages. The eight prose tales follow Histoires ou Contes du temps passé; the copy-text is recorded per tale rather than per volume. French only, with no English retelling alongside.

6 × 9in hardcover · 160pp · French · casewrap

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Du contrat social

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau in the original French, complete and unabridged in 176 pages. No facing English, no notes crowding the margin — the French text set to be read straight through on cream stock. Copy-text: Du contract social, Marc Michel Rey, Amsterdam, MDCCLXII — the first edition.

6 × 9in hardcover · 176pp · French · casewrap

$23.99

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LES FLEURS DU MAL

The Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire

The hundred poems of the 1857 first edition, in their original order and sections, in French. Complete in 188 pages, in the original French; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 188pp · French · casewrap

$23.99

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FABLES

Fables

Jean de La Fontaine

All twelve books of the Fables — every fable, dedication and epilogue — in French, set as verse. Complete in 578 pages, in the original French; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 578pp · French · casewrap

$33.99

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De la démocratie en Amérique — 1840

Democracy in America — 1840

Alexis de Tocqueville

Tocqueville's 1840 work in the original French, complete in 638 pages. It is its own book, not the back half of the 1835 — sold separately for that reason. Copy-text: De la démocratie en Amérique, douzième édition, Pagnerre, Paris 1848 — the last edition revised in Tocqueville's lifetime.

6 × 9in hardcover · 638pp · French · casewrap

$34.99

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De la démocratie en Amérique — 1835

Democracy in America — 1835

Alexis de Tocqueville

Tocqueville's 1835 work in the original French, complete in 782 pages. Sold on its own: 1835 and 1840 are two works, not two halves of one, and this volume is the whole of the first. Copy-text: De la démocratie en Amérique, douzième édition, Pagnerre, Paris 1848 — the last edition revised in Tocqueville's lifetime.

6 × 9in hardcover · 782pp · French · casewrap

$38.99

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