Etexts

Collections of Texts

ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle
L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993. (Francophone texts in the public domain.)
Les classiques des sciences sociales
Une bibliothèque numérique unique et originale dans le monde francophone développée en collaboration avec l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
The ARTFL Project
A joint project of the University of Chicago and the Institut National de la Langue Française of CNRS, ARTFL now contains 1,880 texts. Use of most of the database is limited to subscribers, but parts, such as the bibliography, are available to the public.
- Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie A part of the ARTFL Project. The Volume I prototype is available to the public.
- Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 Provided by the Center for Research Libraries,the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFL Project
- Textes de Français Ancien Another ARTFL project, limited to subscribers. The bibliography is available to all.
- ARTFL French Women Writers Project The ARTFL French Women Writers Project is a searchable database containing works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century. Limited to subscribers to the ARTFL project. The bibliography is available to all.
- La poésie provençale Database of provençal poetry from 1130 to 1300. Limited to ARTFL subscribers. Bibliography available to all.
Athena

Bibliotheque nationale de France: Gallica Electronic texts and images from the BNF

ClicNet: Littérature francophone virtuelle. Francophone literature links from Swarthmore.

CLIO: Site d'histoire sociale Les actualités de l'équipe de recherche et hébergeant la revue électronique Actes de l'Histoire de l'immigration.

Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert This 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.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook from Fordham University. A collection of medieval electronic texts, some in French and some in translation.

French Online Resources from the University of Virginia Some limited to the University community; some available to the public.

Théâtrales
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. La collection « Théâtrales » est issue des activités de QUEATRE, un groupe internet de discussion en français sur le théâtre. (Electronic texts, bibliographies, and other information collected for QUEATRE, a discussion list devoted to French theatre.)
E-texts related to Joseph de Maistre, Counter-Enlightenment theorist and writer.

WWI Document Archive : Primary documents from World War I; items such as memorials, personal reminiscences, images, commentary and links

French Revolutionary Pamphlets This is an experiment in the distribution of rare text page images on the web. The authors of this page are looking for comments on their model.