Resources for French Students
Check out the blog for students and faculty in the French program.
For some answers to common questions about library research at UMD, see the Research FAQ.
Subscription Databases for Foreign Languages and Literatures
Electronic indexes, full text databases and high-quality reference sources provided by the UMD library and especially useful to students of foreign languages and literatures.
French Film at the UMD Library
Academic Journals for French Studies, in print and electronic format
Reference Books for French Studies
Web Resources - French Language and Literatures
Dictionnaire
de l'Académie française, neuvième édition -
Version informatisée
This is the great, authoritative
edition of the French language, via a well-designed electronic interface.
Ressources
Internet Francophone
A
nice, broad collection of French internet resources compiled at Lehman College,
City University of New York.
Gallica
(Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Gallica propose un accès à 70 000 ouvrages numérisés,
à plus de 80 000 images et à plusieurs dizaines d'heures de
ressources sonores. Cet ensemble constitue l'une des plus importantes bibliothèques
numériques accessibles gratuitement sur l'Internet. Les
fonds de Gallica sont extraits de la bibliothèque numérique
de la BnF. Ils ont été choisis de manière à
dessiner une bibliothèque patrimoniale et encyclopédique.
Cette collection rassemble des éditions prestigieuses, dictionnaires
et périodiques. Elle concerne de nombreuses disciplines telles l'histoire,
la littérature, les sciences, la philosophie, le droit, l'économie
ou les sciences politiques.
Les
sites sélectionnés par la Bibliothèque Centre Pompidou
Retrouvez
les sites sélectionnés par la Bpi, classés par catégories
et sous-catégories.
ARTFL
Project
At
present the database consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic
works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical
writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally
represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well
as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
Poésie
française
Le site Poésie française est créé par Webnet,
société de conseil et d'ingénierie e-business. Plus
de 6000 poèmes de langue française, du Moyen Âge au
début du XXème siècle.
textes
rares
Témoignages sur le monde de l'édition du XVe au XIXe siècle,
textes et images / Texts and pictures from the 15th to the 19th century.
L'annuaire
de l'UREC
L'annuaire de l'UREC est un annuaire consacré aux services WWW concernant
l'Enseignement Supérieur et la Recherche en France, publics ou privés.
Athena
Textes
Français. A large collection of e-texts produced and organized
by Pierre Perroud.
Web Resources - Contemporary French Culture
Le Monde.fr Blogs
Blogs supported by Le Monde newspaper - a rich source of contemporary French culture.
La Bibliothèque virtuelle de périodiques
La Bibliothèque virtuelle de périodiques est un projet franco-québécois développé et mis à jour par une quinzaine de bibliothécaires et documentalistes. À ce jour, elle répertorie environ 650 revues et magazines électroniques offrant leur contenu sur Internet.
frenchculture.org
Art, books, cinema, music, education, performing arts, tv & radio. Includes links to lots of online content.
Radio France
France's primary radio network. Has stations for different regions as well as stations for different kinds of programming, all broadcasting on the internet as well as by radio in France.
L'Internaute
Le magazine de l'internet, des loisirs, de la culture et de la découverte.
Chronic'Art
Le webmag culturel
Aujourdhui.com
Qu'yu a-t-il d'excitant sur le web...
French Wikipedia
A separate Wikipedia, all in French, generated by French people. Lots of information on French topics of interest.
Where to go in the Library if you want to browse...
Browsing the library stacks can be a great way to make new discoveries.
The UMD library is organized according to the Library of Congress Classification System, which uses alphabetic codes to divide the collection by subject. The "D" class is where European History and Culture is located, with French History and Culture in subclass "DC." French Colonial America (mainly Quebec, but also parts of the Caribbean) is found in F 1170. History of other French colonial areas can be found in the history sections for Asia (subclass DS) and Africa (subclass DT). Those books are all located on the 3rd floor of the library. The "P" class is devoted to Language and Literature, and those books are on the 4th floor.
PC 2001 to PC 3761 has books on the French Language
PC 2700 to PC 3708 has French dialects and provincialisms
PC 2813 to PC 2898 : Old French
PC 3201 to PC 3366 : Provencal (old)
PC 3371 to PC 3420.5 : Modern patois of Southern France
PC 3420.8 to PC 3495 : Langue d'oc dialects
PC 3721 to PC 3761 : Slang, argot
PQ 1 to PQ 3999 French literature
PQ 1 to PQ 771 History and criticism
PQ 1 to PQ 150 : General
PQ 151 to PQ 221 : Medieval. Old French
PQ 226 to PQ 317 : Modern
PQ 400 to PQ 491 : Poetry
PQ 500 to PQ 591 : Drama
PQ 601 to PQ 771 : Prose and prose fiction
PQ (781) to PQ (841) : Folk literature
PQ 845 : Juvenile literature
PQ 1100 to PQ 1297 : Collections
PQ 1100 to PQ : 1145 General
PQ 1160 to PQ : 1193 Poetry
PQ 1211 to PQ : 1241 Drama
PQ 1243 to PQ : 1297 Prose
PQ 1300 to PQ 1595 : Old French literature
To ca. 1500/1550
PQ 1300 to PQ 1391 : Collections
PQ 1411 to PQ 2726 : Individual authors and works
PQ 1411 to PQ 1545 : To 1350/1400
PQ 1551 to PQ 1595 : (14th to ) 15th century (to ca. 1525)
PQ 1600 to PQ 2726 : Modern literature (Individual authors)
PQ 1600 to PQ 1709 : 16th century
PQ 1710 to PQ 1935 : 17th century
PQ 1947 to PQ 2147 : 18th century
PQ 2149 to PQ 2551 : 19th century
PQ 2600 to PQ 2651 : 1900 to 1960
PQ 2660 to PQ 2686 : 1961 to 2000
PQ 2700 to PQ 2726 : 2001 to
PQ 3800 to PQ 3999 : Provincial, local, colonial, etc.
Your Librarian for Foreign Languages and Literatures is ...
Rory Litwin
Library Rm. 268
218-726-7896
Email: rlitwin@d.umn.edu
Please contact him with any questions that you may have about information resources in Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Faculty members in the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures have their own resource page.
Page updated 3/17/2006
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