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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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    http://www.numdam.org/ may help you. Bon courage !2011-12-06
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    Your work will be very very very useful for me if you decide to translate this article http://math.berkeley.edu/~pavlov/scans/guichardet.pdf. This is just a proposal :)2011-12-06
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    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.2011-12-07
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    Clarification: that is to say the exposition seems quite transparent.2011-12-07
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    @Poopsilon I'm sure your translation will be much more better then mine or computer translation.2011-12-07
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    @Nobert You'd actually be surprised how good google translate is for languages as similar as english/french, anyways though, it's quite long but I should be able to finish it within a few weeks if that's good for you. You can send me your email at poopsilon@yahoo.com2011-12-08
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    @Norbert, oops spelled your name wrong.2011-12-09

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