The earliest known biographical accounts are an obituary by Auguste Chevalier, published in La Revue encyclopédique in November 1832, and a short unsigned biography attributed to Flaugergues, a former schoolmate of Galois's at the lycée Louis-Le-Grand, published in Le Magasin pittoresque (1848). Paul Dupuy's La Vie d’Évariste Galois appeared in 1896.
Several books are devoted entirely to the mathematician:
Évariste Galois révolutionnaire et géomètre by André Dalmas (Fasquelles, 1956) is a well-documented historical study reproducing texts and archival documents;
Évariste Galois by Alexandre Astruc (Flammarion, 1994), published in the Grandes biographies series;
Galois, le mathématicien maudit by Norbert Verdier (Pour La Science, 2011) is part of the "Les génies de la science" series (see "Publications and scientific writings").
Finally, a historian of mathematics Caroline Ehrhardt examines Galois through the lens of the history of knowledge in Évariste Galois, la fabrication d’une icône mathématique (EHESS, 2011) and *Itinéraire d’un texte mathématique – les réélaborations d’un mémoire d’Évariste Galois au 19th century* (Hermann, 2012).
Several additional multi-author works are listed on the page "Publications and scientific writings".
