A French Language and Literature Research Guide

Your portal to French cultural news.

Your portal to research in French literature.

Your portal to social science news.

Your portal to resources organized by the BnF.

The French Studies Web provides annotated links to scholarly web resources and includes sites of particular interest to librarians specializing in Western Europe. It does not strive for exhaustiveness. Where possible, links to high-quality, scholarly meta-sites are given.

Index of resources and links pertaining to French literature.

A comprehensive research guide for French literature.

Its main purpose is to provide a single search interface for the three major French catalogs: the Catalog of Digitized Municipal Library Collections (Catalogue des Fonds des Bibliothèques Municipales Rétroconvertis/BMR); BnF catalogue général ; and the University Documentation Catalog (Catalogue du Système Universitaire de Documentation/Sudoc).

The home page of the National Library of France will link you to a number of important catalogs.

Over a million free documents accessible for free : Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Images, Newspapers, Magazines, Periodicals, Sound records, Music, Scores, etc

Founded in 1982 as a result of a collaboration between the French government and the University of Chicago, the ARTFL Project is a consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources.

A useful resource for francophone literature.

An online collection of French literature.

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

An online collection of French literature.

19th Century French Language resource by the University of Toronto.

The University of Warwick's Marandet collection of 18th- and 19th-century French plays is a unique resource and one of the most significant collections of its kind in the country. There are over 2000 plays from the period 1700-1830 and a similar number from the period 1830-1900.

Serves content dynamically on the Web. Users gain greater flexibility in viewing and searching, while editors are able to work more efficiently and flexibly. Provides access to resources across a broad spectrum of interests and disciplines within the Humanities.

A multi-institutional publishing consortium, Erudit is a non-profit society that offers an innovative model for the promotion and dissemination of research outputs

Francophone news and television source.