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Primary Source Documents, Images, Etc.
You can search The CAT by entering book titles or authors' names. Authors' names should be listed in The CAT according to standard French usage and titles should be entered without the initial article (le, la, les).
Examples: Gide, Andre -OR- retour de l'enfant prodigue
To do a subject search, it is important to know the LC subject headings. You can also "Browse" by subject headings.
French literature -- 19th century
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
How to find materials NOT at Penn State.
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Examples: Gide, Andre -OR- retour de l'enfant prodigue
To do a subject search, it is important to know the LC subject headings. You can also "Browse" by subject headings.
Examples of useful subject headings:
French literatureFrench literature -- 19th century
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
How to find materials NOT at Penn State.
- Full-text, full-image archive of journals in a various humanities and social sciences disciplines, including many journals in classical literature and archaeology
- Some content back to the nineteenth century
- Content excludes the most recent three to five years
- FRANCIS (1984-present)
- Covers range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences
- Strong in religion, the history of art, psychology, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature.
- Wide range of materials, including serials, journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, exhibition catalogs, legislation, teaching materials, and reports
- Full-text of scholarly journals, including many key history journals
- indexes 5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers.
- Find articles and other materials dealing with world history for the period 1450 to the present
Gallica
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.
Gallica also includes several special digitized collections: Gallica Utopie, Gallica Classique, le Dossier Proust, and le Voix sur Gallica, a collection of spoken word recordings.
In its Parcours section, Gallica also provides thematic collections (Thèmes), including its Images of a Century series.
ARTFL
ARTFL contains approximately 2000 French works from 1700-1900. Included are French classics as well as non-fiction prose and technical writing. Small sections are devoted to medieval, renaissance, and seventeenth century texts with larger sections pertaining to the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics such as literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy are also provided. In addition, there is a Provençal database consisting of 38 texts. Most texts are based on standard scholarly editions and include page references It includes several important historical dictionaries.
ARTstor
A database of digital images of works of art and of artifacts of visual culture, contains hundreds of thousands of good-quality images.
EuroDocs: History of France--Primary Documents
Links to sites with primary historical documents for European countries and regions. Includes prehistoric and ancient Europe.
Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 (ARTFL)
Voice of the Shuttle History Page--France
A collection of links concentrating on the 100 Years War, the French Revolution, Napoleon (not scholarly), and a wide selection of images.
Historical Maps of Europe (University of Texas at Austin)
Historical Maps of Paris (Columbia University)
Reference Books
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.
Gallica also includes several special digitized collections: Gallica Utopie, Gallica Classique, le Dossier Proust, and le Voix sur Gallica, a collection of spoken word recordings.
In its Parcours section, Gallica also provides thematic collections (Thèmes), including its Images of a Century series.
ARTFL
ARTFL contains approximately 2000 French works from 1700-1900. Included are French classics as well as non-fiction prose and technical writing. Small sections are devoted to medieval, renaissance, and seventeenth century texts with larger sections pertaining to the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics such as literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy are also provided. In addition, there is a Provençal database consisting of 38 texts. Most texts are based on standard scholarly editions and include page references It includes several important historical dictionaries.
ARTstor
A database of digital images of works of art and of artifacts of visual culture, contains hundreds of thousands of good-quality images.
EuroDocs: History of France--Primary Documents
Links to sites with primary historical documents for European countries and regions. Includes prehistoric and ancient Europe.
Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 (ARTFL)
Voice of the Shuttle History Page--France
A collection of links concentrating on the 100 Years War, the French Revolution, Napoleon (not scholarly), and a wide selection of images.
Historical Maps of Europe (University of Texas at Austin)
Historical Maps of Paris (Columbia University)
Some printed collections at Penn State:
- French revolution pamphlet collection at Pennsylvania State University. [manuscript]. (Bulk dates: 1789-1796) Rare Books & Mss, 1st Floor Paterno (nocirc)
- Les juifs de France : de l'émancipation à l'intégration (1787-1812) ; documents, bibliographie et annotations DS135.F82A96 1997 Pattee - Stacks BA
- Le Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (histoire et documents) DC3.C53 Pattee - Stacks BA
- The constitutions and other select documents illustrative of the history of France, 1789-1907 DC58.A2A52 1967 Pattee - Stacks BA
- Documents diplomatiques français (1871-1914) D397.F73 1.ser. Pattee - Stacks BA
- Documents diplomatiques français 1932-1939 DC396.A45 ser.2 Pattee Stacks BA
France, 1789-1962 DC35.C66 1975 A&H Ref Collection
Historical dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 DC147.H57 1984 A&H Ref Collection
Historical dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815 DC201.H673 1985 A&H Ref Collection
Historical dictionary of France from the 1815 restoration to the Second Empire DC256.H57 1987 A&H Ref Collection
Historical dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940 DC337.H57 1986 A&H Ref Collection
Guide to French literature: 1789 to the present PQ41.L48 1992 A&H Ref Collection
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Fax: 814-863-7502
or Your Campus Librarian.
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