French and Francophone Studies: Primary Text Collections
Online Text Collections
- ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) This link opens in a new windowResources include the Main ARTFL Database, French Women Writers, Provençal poetry, Journal de Trévoux, Textes de Français Ancien, the first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, the Montaigne Project (full-text searching of Les Essais), full text version of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique (5th ed., 1740) and full-text dictionary searching.
- Electronic Enlightenment: Letters and Lives This link opens in a new windowCorrespondence from the early 17th to the mid-19th century, including edited letters from across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Topics covered in letters include religious tolerance, animal rights, vulcanology, classical archeology, economic modelling, and celebrity culture.
- Gallica, Bibliothèque numérique de la BnF (BnF Digital Library)Provides access to public domain and copyrighted digital material. These collections consist of printed materials (books, journals, newspapers, printed music and others), graphic materials (engravings, maps, photographs, videos, etc.) and sound recordings.
- L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque nationale de FranceThe contents of the locked private case of the BNF, "made up of more than 2,400 literary works, manuscripts, engravings, lithographs, and photographs" considered immoral and/or pornographic.
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