Research & Subject Guides: French and Francophone Languages and Literatures: Resources by century

XVIème

The Montaigne Project (ARTFL)
Searchable access to the full text of the Exemplaire de Bordeaux edition.
Michel de Montaigne
(Christopher Edelman, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The Renaissance in Print: Sixteenth-Century Books in the Douglas Gordon Collection
Features approximately 1200 volumes of French books dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.

Gustave Flaubert
(Université de Rouen)
Napoleonica - Research
Research resources from Fondation Napoléon, including the Napoleonic Digital Library, Fondation Napoléon Digital Collection, and Napoleonica Archives Online.
Paris, Capital of the 19th Century
Online access to pictorial works and texts selected from the collections of the Art Slide Library, the Rockefeller Library and the John Hay Library at Brown University.
The George Sand Association
Literary society founded at Hofstra University dedicated to the study of George Sand.
Les Rougon-Macquart (Emile Zola)
Bibliography and character guide

La Chanson de Roland
(Bibliotheca Augustana)
Chrétien de Troyes
Bibliographies of manuscripts and modern editions
The Online Froissart
Images, transcriptions, and selected translations into English of Jean Froissart's Chroniques
Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts
Currently two collections (Roman de la Rose Digital Library and Christine de Pizan Digital Scriptorium) of digitized medieval manuscripts.
L’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes
Specific unit of the CNRS devoted to research on manuscripts, mainly medieval.
Roman de la Rose Digital Library
Access to summaries, background information, bibliographies, and transcriptions

Dictionnaire universel (Antoine Furetière, 1690)
Lettres de la marquise de Sévigné
Personnages de la Cour -- Versailles
Use this to find more information about important figures from the Court of Versailles during the reigns of Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI.

Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny
Ed. J. Dainard
Dictionnaire universel de commerce (Jacques Savary des Bruslons, 1742)
Consult this trade dictionary for information on early modern business, trade, and material culture. (First edition, 1726)
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1781)
(Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert)
French Revolution Digital Archive
(Stanford University Libraries/ Bibliothèque nationale de France)
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Digitized archival documents and images from the period of the French Revolution of 1789
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Biography and bibliography from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Personnages de la Cour -- Versailles
Use this to find more information about important figures from the Court of Versailles during the reigns of Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI.
Revealing La Révolution (the UMD French Pamphlet Project)
Voltaire Foundation

Aimé Césaire
(Lehman College, CUNY)
Biography and bibliography
Center d'Études Gidiennes
Center dedicated to research on André Gide
Fonds Queneau
Michel Foucault
Biography and bibliography from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Le nouveau roman
(Etudes littéraires)
Definition, theory, and key texts
Le surréalisme
(Etudes littéraires)
Definition, theory, authors, and key texts
Les Ecrits de Marguerite Duras
Bibliographie des oevures et de la critique, 1940-
(Hélène Volat, Librarian Emerita, Stony Brook University)
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Brief biography and bibliography
Michel Deguy Bibliography
(Hélène Volat, Librarian Emerita, Stony Brook University)
Julia Kristeva Bibliography
(Hélène Volat, Librarian Emerita, Stony Brook University)