French Language & Literature: Web Sources

A digitization project of the French national library. Makes available electronic texts in French literature, history and culture ranging from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Texts are in PDF format.

The website of the National Library of France provides a gateway to a wide-ranging content, including bibliographies, catalogs, online exhibition, full text information and digitized images. The full online catalog of the holdings of the BNF is included. In French, but the library does provide an English language portal.

annotated links to scholarly web resources and includes sites of particular interest to librarians specializing in Western Europe. Where possible, links to high-quality, scholarly meta-sites are given.

In French. This gateway to French culture links to information about cultural initiatives, exhibitions, programs, and other information, in all of the regions of France. The site includes a languages and literature portal as well as a portal for cinema and multimedia.

A collection of texts in French theater. Hosted by University of Quebec at Montreal

The beginnings of theater at the fair, as it existed in Paris in the 17th and possibly the 18th centuries.