LibGuides: FREN 3091: Francophone Studies and French Senior Research: 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
brings together digitized books, newspapers, journals, archives, maps and audiovisual documents from the Francophone world and areas formerly colonized by France, with coverage of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North Africa, and North America.