# Old French papers which haven't been translated into English

So I've been studying French for a few years now and I've decided that translating an old French math paper into English would be a good exercise to further improve my French competency. I would also like to translate a paper that hasn't already been translated so that my work might be useful to someone somewhere.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a good source on the Internet to find old French math papers, something in algebra/algebraic geometry would be preferable and the older and more elementary the better, as I'm certainly no mathematician (yet).

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numdam.org may help you. Bon courage ! –  Davide Giraudo Dec 6 '11 at 21:17
Your work will be very very very useful for me if you decide to translate this article math.berkeley.edu/~pavlov/scans/guichardet.pdf. This is just a proposal :) –  no identity Dec 6 '11 at 23:36
Great site Davide Giraudo I think I might try my hand at one of those from the 1800's, is there anyway to tell if a paper has already been translated other than searching for its english language equivalent on google? Also @Norbert, the math in your paper is beyond me, but it seems to be mostly exposition and so if your not worried about the translator not understanding the math then I can probably do it. –  Poopsilon Dec 7 '11 at 1:52
Clarification: that is to say the exposition seems quite transparent. –  Poopsilon Dec 7 '11 at 2:07
@Poopsilon I'm sure your translation will be much more better then mine or computer translation. –  no identity Dec 7 '11 at 9:30

But beware: orthography of old french was not stabilized or has evoluted (game: find the "mistakes") and all s are typeset as f. –  Klaus Dec 6 '11 at 22:01
@Klaus: You do know that there's a difference between f and ſ (long s), right? And the rules for when to use ſ vs s are quite subtle... –  Zhen Lin Dec 7 '11 at 13:09