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Electronic Texts


Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU)
Has links to 288 works of 101 French authors, some anonymous. Also includes links to dictionaries, notably, a hypertext version of the 1965 edition of Les excentricités du langage. Searchable by author, keyword or title.

Athena: Textes Francais
Electronic text (digitized or reproduced) of literary and other works of French and Swiss writers, or of major authors whose works are available in French (e.g. Plato, Darwin, Marx).

La Bibliotheque Electronique de Liseux
(Lisieux Public Library) Useful for its section on 19th century writers, « Le Rayon Litteraire.

CETE: Centre d'Edition des Textes Electronique
(U Nantes)
Includes rare texts of the Middle Ages, 16th century, and 19th century Africa

Le cri de Toulouse
Electronic copy of the illustrated satirical newspaper published in Toulouse in 1906, and from 1911 - 1930.

French Online Resources
(U. Virginia) Many texts not accessible to non-Uva users; may be found on other sites.

History of France: Primary Documents
(Brigham Young University Library) This web site is part of the project, EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe. Despite its title, the site offers access to more than just documents relating to French history. It includes digital images of cultural artifacts and sites relevant to the history of France. Because the texts' coverage is from Antiquity to the present, it is most useful for research into France's political and cultural history. The 'Medieval & Renaissance Europe' page will also be of interest.

Index Translationum (UNESCO)
The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The data base contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totalling more than 1,500.000 entries in all disciplines : literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
A searchable site that includes images, documents, songs and maps. A companion to a book of the same title DC148 .C388 2001

Liverpool Online Series
The aim of this series is to establish a resource-bank of critical editions and/or translations of French texts. These are available in electronic form, with parallel paper publication of a small number of copies of each item. Online versions of items in the series are designed to be viewed as an exact replica of the printed copies. Each item in the series has its own ISBN and is lodged in hard copy with the major copyright libraries.

The Oxford Text Archive
Joint-venture project that includes Oxford University. Has more than 30 French-language texts, searchable by author and title.

Theatrales
(University of Québec, Montreal and Oxford Brookes University, UK) E-text of French plays.


Please send questions and comments to Miriam Conteh-Morgan