French and Francophone Studies Resources

Books and Media

Earlham Libraries Catalog
Catalog of books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries, with the option to search catalogs in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).

WorldCat
The world's largest library catalog, covering books and other materials available in OCLC member libraries around the globe.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Gallica
Access to over 70,000 works and 80,000 images organized into several digital collections including "Gallica Classique" (classic texts), "France en Afrique", etc.

INA - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
Over 100,000 TV and radio shows available online, browsable by decade, topic, etc. It’s free to view or listen to the clips, and they can be purchased for download.

Articles

MLA International Bibliography
Modern Language Association's index to international journal and books on literature, linguisitics, languages, folklore, and film studies, 1926 to present.

Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.

JSTOR
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Periodicals Archive Online
Full text of 425 journals and magazines covering all topics dating back to the 1800s. Coverage ends at 1995.

Project MUSE
Full text of over hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities dating back to the 1990s.

Persée
Full text of more than a dozen French scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities dating back several decades. Requires free registration.

Reference

Quid
Online version of the standard mini-encyclopedia used in France. Although some of the content is free, other requires a username and password. Contact Neal Baker or your French professor for login information.

Literature Resource Center
Biographical information and critical analyses of authors from throughout history and around the world, plus full-text articles over 100 scholarly journals.

Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450
Online version of the three-volume set from Macmillan (2007).

Web Sites

Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert
Online version of the 28-volume encyclopedia published between 1751 and 1772, courtesy of the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago. Search and browse the encyclopedia in English, but the results are in French.

Lexique des termes littéraires
A dictionary of literary terms, courtesy of lettres.net, an online resource for francophone professors and students of literature.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Courtesy of George Mason University, over 600 primary documents.

The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
Courtesy of Northwestern University, over 1200 images and photographs.

CESAR: calendrier électronique des spectacles sous l'ancien régime et sous la révolution
Explores the world of 17th- and 18th-century French theater. It includes an imagebank containing thousands of images, and a full-text database of contemporary play reviews, police reports, and treatises on drama.