French Language and Literature Subject Guide

This searchable database of literary texts in French can be be navigated through browsing and searching (by author, title, and word).

An online repository of more than two thousand literary and historic texts in the French language (also includes a selection of texts translated from the French).

Produced by an association of researchers, the site offers research and writing related to the literary genre. This growing collection of texts related to specific works of fiction as well as the theoretical underpinnings of the genre is a model for future electronic academic endeavors.

"Gallica provides access to 90 000 digitized works, more than 80 000 pictures and dozens of hours of audio resources. This package is one of the largest digital libraries available for free on the Internet."

Including more than 6000 poems in the French language, this site offers simple search functions and easy navigation. In addition, the site offers links and a statistics page that calculates the most popular searches completed at the site.

Sponsored by Howard University in Washington, D.C., this site is a surfer-friendly reference resource for all facets of French history and culture.

Site indexes online resources by subject (science, literature, etc).

"Creating French Culture traces the history of this relationship from Charlemagne (b. 742?-d. 814) to Charles de Gaulle (b. 1890-d. 1970), through the prism of more than 200 magnificent "treasures" on loan (to the U.S. Library of Congress) from the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris."