**Question 1.** Does Élie Cartan's paper [Les groupes réels simples, finis et continus, Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (3) 31 (1914), 263–355](http://www.numdam.org/item/?id=ASENS_1914_3_31__263_0) contain a classification of $\Bbb C$-linear involutions of simple complex Lie algebras? **Question 2.** If not, what kind of a similar/related classification does it contain? **Question 3.** In what book/paper is this Cartan's paper discussed? MathSciNet contains only the title, while [zbMATH](https://zbmath.org/?q=an%3A45.1408.03) contains a review: a translation into German of a few lines from the introduction.