LibGuides: Francophone Studies: Primary Source Research

Digital Collections

ARTFL: American research on the treasury of the French language
presents digitized full text of classical French writings, among them philosophical treatises, poetry, journals, medieval manuscripts, writings by women, and dictionaries. Includes Dictionnaires d'autrefois, a searchable corpus of French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Caribbean Literature
provides access to the full text of works of 19th and 20th century Caribbean poetry and fiction, with many in French. You can browse works by author, place, or genre, or conduct advanced or full text searches of works represented.

European Library
allows you to search, browse, and in many cases full access the resources of 49 different European national libraries. Objects include books, magazines, newspapers, journals, and audio recordings.
Europeana
presents a searchable collection of image, text, sound, and video from libraries, museum, archives, and special collections in Europe.

Gallica
features electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and Francophone publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science, maintained by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
HathiTrust Digital Library
is a large repository of digitized texts from research libraries and digitization initiatives such as the Google Books project and the Internet Archive. Many of these texts are in the public domain and fully viewable, while others not in the public domain may be partially searchable.

Réseau Francophone Numérique
The Réseau Francophone Numérique (Francophone Digital Network, or RFN) assists its members – heritage institutions – in conservation, dissemination and promotion of their heritage via digital technology and in particular through its library, which was launched in 2017. By doing so, it is fully in step with public book policies worldwide, in particular in the context of the French-speaking world.