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"Presents an authoritative guide not only to ten centuries of literature produced in the territory now called France, but also to the rich literary output of other French-speaking countries around the world."

"Persee is a national digitization project of French academic journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Persee provides full text access in pdf format to some of the most prestigious French journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences."

A full-text database of classical French writings, including literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.

Begun in 1997 as the major digitization project at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica includes full-text of over 100,000 volumes and 300,000 images covering the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on nineteen

99 works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century

"A complete on-line version of the first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie."