Albert Léon Guérard (1880–1959) was a prominent scholar of Comparative Literature. Guérard taught at Stanford University for many years. A prolific author, he published works on French and European civilization and world literature.
Testament of a liberal. Harvard University Press, 1956.Art for art's sake. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1936.Education of a humanist. Harvard University Press, 1949.Preface to world literature. H. Holt and Company, 1940.Five masters of French romance with Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Paul Bourget, Maurice Barrès, Romain Rolland. Scribners, 1916.French Prophets of Yesterday: A Study of Religious Thought Under the Second Empire.(1913) ISBN 978-1-4446-8453-7.France in the Classical Age. The Life and Death of an Ideal. Scribners, 1928. ISBN 978-1-4067-0677-2.France: A Short History. Norton, 1946.Napoleon I. (1957)French civilization from its origins to the close of the middle ages. (1920)Napoléon III. Harvard University Press, 1943.Beyond hatred; the democratic ideal in France and America. Negro Universities Press, 1969. ISBN 0-8371-1918-9. 