19th century French psychiatrists: Unsung heroes of modern melancholia research ... The authors recognized non-psychotic forms of melancholia, marking a shift from earlier concepts of the disorder.

I believe the first person to master the fictional multiverse was the 19th-century French novelist, Honoré de Balzac, in his monumental work La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy, 1829-1847). Read more ...

Behold, a woman fuming. Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over ...

Richard M. Berrong, Portraying Male Same-Sex Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Pierre Loti's "Aziyadé", College Literature, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Fall, 1998), pp. 91-108 Free online reading ...