French Resources

Complete text of nearly 2,000 French works including classic works of French literature, non-fiction prose, and technical writing.

This multifaceted tool places art works from the Metropolitan Museum's collection within geographical and chronological context. It has excellent thematic essays (background information) that cover the historical eras and cultures that produced the works of art (the primary sources), along with maps and key events from each place and time period.

More than one million digitized documents (books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, images, scores, sound recordings, etc.) at the French National Library.

Connects to French historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. From the antiquity to the present.

A digitized multimedia library of the European cultural heritage: digitized books, manuscripts, photos, paintings, maps, audio and film material, newspapers, etc.

Searchable database. A selection of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.

A digital collection created by Stanford University Libraries that contains thirty-six texts, written in French between 1716 and 1835.