E-Texts and Digital Libraries
- ABU: La Bibliothèque Universelle.ABU is a digital library of French texts in the public domain. Currently it includes 288 texts by 101 authors. Access to specific works is available through a keyword search as well as alphabetical author and title indexes.
- ARTFL - The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language.At present, ARTFL's main corpus, ARTFL-FRANTEXT, consists of nearly 3,000 fully searchable texts from an array of databases ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts (12th-15th centuries.
- ArtStorARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million high-quality images of art and photography. It includes areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and the social sciences, and it includes descriptions and provenance. Also includes images in the fields of anthropology and architecture. It does not cover current journal articles.
- AthenaProvides full-text access to works in French by French and Francophone authors, and translations of foreign works into French. A vast database developed by Pierre Perroud of full-text books and documents, primarily of French and Swiss authors.
- ClicNet: Littérature Francophone VirtuelleExcerpts from francophone literature with links to web resources covering French language, art, literature, and culture.
- ClicNet: Littérature médiévaleLinks to medieval dictionaries, encyclopedias, and "thematic bibliographies" (e.g., Troubadours, Lyrical Poetry, Narrative Works, Medeval Society and Culture, and, much more)
- CliotexteA collection of short historical texts, arranged by century or by event or movement. The pedagogical focus of this site is French high schools and colleges
- Corpus de la Littérature Médiévale des Origines au 15e SiecleAlmost 900 complete works constitute this library for the period of the Middle Ages, here defined as going from the 9th to the 15th century. The four literary fields concerned and specific to that period are : narrative prose fiction, chanson de geste, poetry and theatre (religious and profane).
- Corpus de la Littérature Narrative du Moyen Age au 20e SiecleThe Corpus of narrative literature gives online access to more than 1,000 narrative works (novels, tales, short stories).From Chrétien de Troyes to Alain-Fournier and Marcel Proust. It brings together the greatest authors and the greatest works of the last eight centuries and offers the possibility to cross-search them in simple and complex ways.
- EuroDocsA website of primary documents from Western Europe (developed by Richard Hacken of Brigham Young University) arranged by country. The links connect to historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated, and which shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history).
- France in America/France en Amérique.A bilingual digital library made available by the Library of Congress in partnership with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. It explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century.
- Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale de France).A vast digital library project of the French national library, Gallica provides access to 90,000 texts, 80,000 images, and hours of audio files. It covers a time period ranging from the Middle Ages to the 19th century and a complete range of subjects, including history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. The intended audience is broad, including high school students, the general public, and university students and scholars.
- Iluminated Manuscripts (Enluminures)Online access to about 114,000 images of medieval illuminated manuscripts and decorative items conserved in French municipal museums.
- Poésie Française.A site with more than 6,000 French poems from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The collection is searchable by author, title, century, country, and keyword. The site also features a poème au hasard (random poem) option as well as a page of links to various sites related to French poetry or specific poets.
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- Gallica Periodicals This link opens in a new windowGallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. Online since 1997, this resource is updated every week with thousands of new materials and now offers access to more than 2 million documents.
Gallica - The BnF Digital Library. One of the major digital libraries available for free via the Internet. It provides access to any type of document: printed documents (books, press and magazines) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound and iconographic documents, maps and plans.
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Subject Guide
Danielle Mihram
Contact:
Leavey Library, LVL114
dmihram@usc.edu
Subject Specialties:
---Digital Humanities.
---Project building and leadership, Digital Humanities.
---French and Italian Languages and Literatures.
---Manuscript Studies.
---Voltaire and the Enlightenment.
Research Consultations:
By appointment - schedule by email.
Website
dmihram@usc.edu
Subject Specialties:
---Digital Humanities.
---Project building and leadership, Digital Humanities.
---French and Italian Languages and Literatures.
---Manuscript Studies.
---Voltaire and the Enlightenment.
Research Consultations:
By appointment - schedule by email.
Subjects: Languages & Literatures