French Studies

Includes links to resources on French Literature

Created and maintained by Volker Dehs, Zvi Har'El & Jean-Michel Margot, of the Société Jules Verne.

Hosted by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech University

Created and maintained by Laurence Carbonneaux.

Offers a detailed bibliography of works by and about Ionesco, a biography, a list of the representations and editions of his plays, and links to other sites. Maintained by Søren Olsen, Brussels.

Index to journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality and gender during the Middle Ages. Also includes links to other medieval women's resources.

An annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which is being developed as a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in Medical Humanities, for use in health/pre-health and liberal arts settings. Updated every two months. Not uniquely devoted to French literature.

Contains database of literature on and about Bakhtin. From Bakhtin Centre, University of Sheffield.

The site includes information on the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
and links to related web pages in English.

(American & French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) Contains nearly 2000 texts: fiction & non-fiction; mostly 18th-20th century texts, but also includes medieval, renaissance and 17th century texts; novels, verse, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises; literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. [Most parts of the site are restricted to faculty, staff, and students at subscribing institutions, but some are freely accessible.]

This site contains approximately 5000 works (in French) written by Louisiana Creoles of Color as well as by Creoles of European descent during the 19th century. It contains stories, novels, collections of poetry, and drama as well as a selection folktales in Louisiana Creole. Produced by Centenary College of Louisiana.

Digital library of the French National Library

Full-text Digital Library offering books and corpora as lexical hypertexts on Creative Commons License

A repository of full-text literary and linguistic resources. Includes thousands of texts in more than 25 languages.

Facsimiles from the University of Virginia Library.

Collects digital documents from participating Francophone countries

A digital collection of approximately 12,000 French pamphlets held by the University of Maryland Libraries. These pamphlets reveal valuable information about society during the upheaval of the French Revolution.

Archive of primary sources on the Parisian fairground theaters during the 17th and 18th centuries. By Barry Russell (Society for Theatre Resarch, UK).

From the Summer Institute of Linguistics. The focus of this site is the study of minority languages and cultures around the world. Includes information about linguistics, anthropology, translation, literacy, language learning, and computing.

Collection of links to online resources on literatures (other than English)