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This research guide identifies basic reference print and electronic resources for the study of French language and literature.
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Prix Goncourt
Michel Houellebecq is the winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt, which of his novels is your favorite?
Good starting places
Generally, the first step in researching an author or literary topic is to do a preliminary (or more thorough) search in the following databases:
Specialized Resources for French Literature
- The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
"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 "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."
- ARTFL Project A full-text database of classical French writings, including literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.
Digitized French Primary Source Material
- Gallica 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
- French Women Writers 99 works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century
- The ARTFL Encyclopedie "A complete on-line version of the first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie."
- ABU : la Bibliothèque Universelle
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