A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 / From the Beginning to 1800

by George Saintsbury

Chapter XI

The work, in novel, of Voltaire and Rousseau is in all the cheap collections of Didot, Garnier, etc. Of that of Diderot there have recently been several partial collections, but I think no complete one. It is better to take the Œuvres, by Assézat and Tourneux, mentioned in the text (20 vols., Paris, 1875-77).

Marmontel's Œuvres appeared in 19 vols. (Paris, 1818), and I have used, and once possessed, a more modern and compacter issue in 7 vols. (Paris, 1820?). The Contes Moraux appeared together in 1770 and later.

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Œuvres. 12 vols. 1834. Very numerous separate editions (or sometimes with La Chaumière Indienne) of Paul et Virginie.