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Archives and Libraries
- List of Archives, Libraries, Museums and Bookshops
Dictionaries
- Dictionary of Historical French (Douglas C. Walker)
- Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities (1550-1820)
- Dictionnaires d’Autrefois (Historical French Dictionaries)
Journals
- Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales
- Annales historiques de la Révolution française
- Contemporary French Civilization
- French Colonial History
- French Historical Studies
- French History
- French History and Civilization: Papers from the Geroge Rudé Seminar
- French Studies
- French Politics, Culture & Society
- Proceedings of the Western Society for French History
- Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine
Online Sources and Texts
- ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle (Francophone texts in the public domain)
- Actes de l’histoire de l’immigration (Proceedings on the History of Immigration)
- The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL)
- Athena Electronic Texts (2,000 French texts, mostly early modern-modern)
- Bibliography on the Holocaust in France
- BNF Gallica Electronic Texts (2 million text pages, 10,000 images from the BN, medieval-modern)
- Catalogue of the Scientific Community: 16th and 17th Centuries : Part of the Galileo Project at Rice University. Biography database with over 130 entries on French scientists of the period.
- Clandestine Texts from the Eighteenth Century (15 texts,University of Turin)
- Les classiques des sciences sociales (Digital Library of Francophone Social Science)
- ClicNet: Littérature francophone virtuelle Francophone literature links from Swarthmore
- Cour de France a site dedicated to culture, politics, and daily life at the French court (4th century – 19th century)
- Encyclopedia of Diderot & d’Alembert site has been designed to make accessible to teachers, students, and other interested English-language readers translations of articles from the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert in the 18th century
- Eurodocs Project (60 document collections, many translated into English, medieval-modern, BYU)
- European State Finance Database (Richard Bonney)
- European Union Archives
- Exploring the French Revolution
- Files from the Dreyfus Affair
- The French Revolution Edited by Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer, includes images, texts, maps, songs, and more
- French Revolution Digital ArchiveIncludes volumes 1-82 of the Archives parlementaires along with over 14,000 images
- French Revolutionary Images Online Catalogue, Waddesdon Manor
- Bibliotheque nationale de France: Gallica Electronic texts and images from the BNF
- INA (National Audio-visual Archives)
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Hundreds of primary and secondary texts, Fordham University)
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
- IRHT Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes.
- The Labyrinth, Resources for Medieval Studies (Medieval texts, images, and links, Georgetown University)
- Marxist Texts
- Northwestern University Library – Special Collections: The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871 (1500 caricatures, 68 newspapers, hundreds of books and pamphlets, and about 1000 posters)
- Oxford Text Archive (2,500 texts, English and some French, medieval-modern, Oxford University)
- Tableau de Concordance entre Le Calendrier Republicain et Le Calendrier Gregorien
- Théâtrales Electronic texts, bibliographies, and other information collected for QUEATRE, a discussion list devoted to French theatre
- World War One Document Archive
- Tout Voltaire Searchable database of all Voltaire’s works
- Electronic Enlightenment Wide-ranging collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period
- Modern Editions of Early Modern French Sources Translated into English (Jeffrey Merrick and David A. Bell)
- The Image of France (George McKee)
- French Renaissance PaleographyTeach yourself to read French Renaissance texts supported by an excellent range of resources, including maps and online documents
