French Resources: Websites JC

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Language Resources

• Le Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique
  Provided by a provincial organisation in Quebec, this is a French-English-Latin dictionary--includes definitions
• ARTFL Project: French Dictionary
• ARTFL Project: French Conjugator
• Leximagne
  Hundreds of French dictionaries, glossaries, and word lists
• Word Reference
• ILoveLanguages: French
• Le Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé
  Online equivalent to the 16 volume encyclopedic work on the French language from 1789-1960

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Gateways

• French Studies Web
  From the Association of College & Research Libraries--annotated links to scholarly web resources
• French Studies Web: Reference Pages
• Portal to the World: France (Library of Congress)
• Resources for French Studies (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Good Web Sites for French Studies (John Hopkins U.)
• Online Resources for the Study of French and Francophone Literature and Culture (U. of California, Santa Barbara)

• Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links (collected by a French professor at U. of Tennessee)

• France in America
  Bilingual digital library of books, maps. prints, and other documents from the Library of Congress and the bibliotheque Nationale de France
• Gallica
  Digital library hosted by the Bibliotheque nationale de France----includes a chronology of French history from the Middle Ages to the 19th century plus supplementary write-ups that can be searched by theme--substantial collections in French travel history, utopian writings, the history of French colonization and exploration of Africa, and key French authors such as Zola and Proust--no cost

History & Maps

• History of France: Primary Documents (Brigham Young U.)
  French historical documents transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated--from the antiquity to the present
• Oxford Academy: Online Resources
• France Maps
• New France, New Horizons
  Collection of documents from archives in France and Canada about the French in North America

Literature, Language, & Culture

• French Language & Literature Resources (Yale U.)
  Includes reference sources and electronic texts
• Literary Criticism: French Literature (Internet Public Library)
• Littérature de Langue Française en Ligne (CUNY)
  This megasite provides links to author sites, online texts, dictionaries, and other literature resources plus links by century
• ClicNet (Swarthmore U.)
  Online texts arranged by genre, and keyword-searchable--includes links to web resources covering French language, art, literature, and culture
• Corpus de la Littérature Narrative
  The first volume of B.A.S.I.L.E.--Base internationale de Littérature Électronique--a digital library of about 1000 narrative works including novels, tales, short stories
• Classici Stranieri
• Astrolabe (Répertoire de sites littéraires)
• French Language Resources (Electronic Text Center, U. of Virginia)
  Miscellaneous texts in French
• French Literature Links (from Digital Librarian)
• Le Meilleur (The Best) de l'internet: A Review of French-Language Information Sources
• Adwaba Bienvenue Karibu: In the World of African Literatures
  Provides the text of novels, short stories, plays and poetry written by African women authors writing in French--includes a general overview of the literature, biographical information, and links to other literary and political resources
• Fabula Virtual Library (U. of Ottawa)
• ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle
  Produced and maintained by the Association des Bibliophiles Universels--find full-text for 300 literary works by author's name or title--authors include Balzac, Flaubert, Hugo, Racine, and Voltaire
• Athena Textes Français
  Comprehensive lists of French authors on the Internet
• Poesie Francaise
  Selection of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century--searchable database

• Sites on French  Culture and Literature  
   
    
  Links to French authors from 16th century to present day; French culture and literature; French films
• Gallica
  from Bibliothque Nationale de France, Gallica.
  Includes full-text of over 100,000 volumes and 300,000 images covering the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th Century.
• Bibliothèques de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne  
   
    
  Websites selected by Bibliothèques de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne for patron use.
• Poésie Française
  Full-text French Poetry

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