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General full-text resources in French
ARTFL
ARTFL is a cooperative project of the Institut National de la Langue Française (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Divisions of the
Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chicago
Gallica 2000
This is the multimedia online library of the Bibliothèque Nationale of France Over 80,000 fully digitized texts and 300,000 fully digitized images are available.
In its Parcours section, Gallica also provides thematic collections (Thèmes), including its Images of a Century series.
The collection includes the full text of the following periodicals:
Annuaire Bulletin de la société de l'histoire de France 1834-1899
Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 1839-1899
Bulletin de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris 1859-1919
Journal de la Société des Américanistes 1896-1904
L'Année Sociologique 1896-1912
L'Européen, Journal de Morale et de Philosophie 1838
L'Homme nouveau 1833
L'Organisateur 1829-1831
Le Devenir social 1895-1898
Revue des Deux-Mondes 1829-1900
Revue des Questions historiques 1866-1906
Revue historique 1876-1910
ABU: La Bibliothèque Universelle
"L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993." This database, produced by the Association des Bibliophiles Universelles, is searchable by author, title, and keyword. They currently provide 281 texts by 98 authors. It includes a dictionary
Athena: Textes Français
La C.E.T.E., Centre d'Edition des Textes Electroniques
Hosted by the Université de Nantes, this is a full text database of rare, unpublished, or out-of-print texts. It includes texts from the Middle Ages, the sixteenth century, Africa in the 19th century, memoirs and travel writings.
ATHENA Textes Français
A Swiss database that contains more than 2000 French-language texts in literature, philosophy, and science indexed by author or by title, for texts without a principal author. The site also contains a list of other French literature sites.
By Literary Era
Various early texts
Le cantilene de Sainte EulalieTroubador and Early Occitan Literature
This resource is a list of links to literature of this era and region.
French Medieval Drama Database Project
Bibliographies of Adam de la Halle, Jour dou jugement, Bibliographie des miracle et mystères français, by Graham A. Runnalls, Le Corpus du théâtre religieux français by Graham A. Runnalls, and the manuscript of Jour dou jugement and Robin et Marion.
Textes de français ancien (TFA)
From the Laboratoire de Français Ancien (LFA) at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with ARTFL A searchable collection of digitized texts from the 12th to the 15th centuries A complete bibliography of works online at this site is available.
The Charrette Project
"The Charrette project is a complex, scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing a medieval manuscript tradition--that of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot, ca. 1180). It is developed and maintained by the Department of Romance Languages, Princeton University."
Textes électroniques clandestines du 18ième siecle
Poetry
Poésie française
A collection of more than 2800 French-language poems from 7 countries, dating from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century. Poems can be searched by author, title, or verse.
Collected French Verse on the Bibliomania sitecontains original French language poetry
indexed by author
Théâtre
Théâtrales
"... est une collection de textes et d'hypertextes en français sur le théâtre qui a été fondée le 1er mai 1995 par André G. Bourassa, professeur à l'Université de Québec à Montréal, et par Barry Russell, Visiting Fellow de l'Université Brookes d'Oxford, qui en assument tous deux la direction.
On y trouve :
Bibliographie générale d'études théâtrales
Par André G. Bourassa, numérisée par Barry Russell
Chronologie générale du théâtre
Par André G. Bourassa
Corpus du Théâtre Religieux Français du Moyen Age
Par Graham Runnalls et numérisé par Jesse Hurlbut
Glossaire du théâtre
Par André G. Bourassa, numérisé par Barry Russell
Le théâtre de la foire à Paris
Par Barry Russell
Pièces jouées à Paris durant la Révolution Française
Par Mark Olsen, Emmet Kennedy, Marie-Laurence Netter et Douglas McGregor
Textes dramatiques
Bibliothèque virtuelle d'hypertextes et de textes numérisés consacrés au théâtre français
Théâtre-Québec. Pierres et plans pour la construction d'une histoire
Dirigé par André G. Bourassa
Theory
The John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
This fundamental resource on literary theory and criticism can be found in print in the Arts and Humanities Reference Collection (PN81.J54 1994) and online for the Penn State community through the PSU CAT and the E-Resource List.
The articles can be accessed online by topic (allegory, deconstruction), "ideas, history and theory" (French theory and criticism, organized by time period), a name index, or a keyword search.
Voice of the Shuttle Literary Theory Page
A valuable resource for scholarly humanities on the web, this list provides many links to articles about theory, time periods, and thinkers and to works by theoreticians.