English to French book translation
AI translation, checked passage by passage. Upload your book — epub, mobi, fb2, docx, txt or pdf — and see the exact price and a free translated sample of your own book before you pay anything. Every passage is translated, then read again against your original, and translated again wherever that check finds a problem.
Your translation comes back as an epub, the most stable format. Word, Kindle and PDF are available at download.
From a classic, translated by this pipeline
The opening of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, translated English → French by the same pipeline that will translate your book. Nobody polished this by hand.
English original
Our French translation
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
L'atelier était rempli du riche parfum des roses, et quand le léger vent d'été s'agitait parmi les arbres du jardin, parvenait par la porte ouverte la senteur capiteuse du lilas, ou l'effluve plus délicat de l'aubépine à fleurs roses.
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
Le murmure maussade des abeilles se frayant un chemin à travers les longues herbes non fauchées, ou tournoyant avec une insistance monotone autour des cornes d'or poussiéreuses du chèvrefeuille vagabond, semblait rendre le silence plus oppressant. Le grondement sourd de Londres était comme le bourdon d'un orgue lointain.
What a faithful French edition must get right
French typography is a system of its own: « guillemets » with non-breaking spaces, a space before ; : ! ?, and dialogue carried by dashes. A faithful French edition gets all of it right, and gets it right the same way every time.
English “you” becomes tu or vous. The level of formality in each relationship is decided once and kept through the book.
Names that repeat, and invented terms, are fixed in the brief so that they never change between chapters.
Before translation starts, we build a translator's brief from your whole book: names, terms, tone, typography. You read it and can change it. The brief then guides every chapter. Each passage is read again, independently, against your original, and translated again where that check finds a problem. The finished book gets one whole-book read for continuity. Every change goes into your quality report.
What it costs
A normal 80,000-word novel from English to French costs about $12.99 (Standard) or $24.99 (Premium). Your exact price is counted from your own book — we open it and count every word before quoting — and you see that price, and the free sample, before you pay anything. Prices for other book sizes.
Questions
How much does it cost to translate a book from English to French?
From $6.99; a typical 80,000-word novel is about $12.99 on Standard. The exact price is computed from your actual book and shown before you pay — never after.Can I see the quality before paying?
Yes — an excerpt from the middle of your own book, translated and reviewed free, with a report of what the review changed. You judge on your book, not a marketing demo.What formats do you take, and what do I get back?
epub, mobi, azw, azw3, fb2, txt, docx or pdf in; a finished epub back, with Word, Kindle and PDF conversions on the download page. Layout, images and formatting are preserved.How is the translation checked?
Every passage is translated following a book-specific translator's brief, then independently re-read against your original; whatever that check flags is re-translated and checked again. The finished book then gets one whole-book read for continuity. Every change becomes your quality report.Do you handle French typographic spacing?
Yes. The non-breaking spaces around « » and before tall punctuation are part of the typography that the translator's brief fixes for the whole book.What happens to my book files?
Never used for AI training, never published, auto-deleted after 30 days by a storage lifecycle policy.Also: French to English · English to Russian · English to Spanish · English to German · English to Portuguese · English to Romanian · English to Chinese (Simplified) · English to Japanese · English to Italian · English to Polish · English to Ukrainian — every language we translate, or pick any pair on the home page.