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Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Marseille: Volume 1
One of the most powerful religious institutions in medieval France, the Abbey of Saint-Victor, Marseille, stood at the centre of the intellectual, political and spiritual life in …
Les saints des derviches tourneurs
Clément Huart (1854–1926) studied Middle Eastern languages and served as a French diplomat for twenty years before becoming Professor of Persian at the Ecole des Langues Orientales …
Henri Cornélis Agrippa
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) was a controversial Renaissance theologian and writer who published work on the occult and magic, and his writings influenced later leading …
Essai géognostique sur le gisement des roches dans les deux hémisphères
Prussian explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was described by Darwin as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. His boundless curiosity as well …
Rapport historique sur les progrès de l'histoire et de la littérature ancienne depuis 1789, et sur leur état actuel
In 1808, Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815, commissioned a series of reports on the progress of scientific research since 1789. Published in 1810, …
Étude sur le libraire Parisien du XIIIe au XVe siècle
The French bookseller, publisher and printer Paul Delalain (1840–1924) was the author of several studies on the history of the book and of the printing press, including …
Oeuvres complètes
Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy (1789–1857) was the pre-eminent French mathematician of the nineteenth century. He began his career as a military engineer during the Napoleonic Wars, …
Relations de voyages et textes géographiques arabes, persans et turks relatifs a l'Extrême-Orient du VIIIe au XVIIIe siècles 2 Volume Set
Gabriel Ferrand (1864–1935) travelled widely as a French diplomat and pursued scholarly passions as a polyglot orientalist. He served as consul to Madagascar and published several …
Le Royaume du Cambodge
In 1868, Jean Moura took up the post of Administrator of the French protectorate of Cambodia, established the previous year by invitation of the country's rulers who wanted freedom …
A Book of French Verse
Originally published in 1936, this book contains representative samples of French poetry written between the middle of the sixteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century. …
L'Ecole des Bourgeois
Originally published in 1937 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the full text of L'École des bourgeois, a comic play by French dramatist …
Catalogue des plantes indigènes des Pyrénées et du Bas Languedoc
English botanist George Bentham (1800–84) is most famous as the author of the popular Handbook of the British Flora (1858), which ran into many editions. A distinguished scientist, …