Earlham College Guides - French & Francophone Studies Resource Guide

Reference Sources

French Studies Web

A great place to browse for high-quality links, maintained by the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French)
The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (French-English)
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).

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.