Key Electronic French Language
Primary Source Collections

• ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/databases/TLF/
  A broad collection of approximately 2000 French literary, religious, philosophical, political and scientific works, mostly from the 16th through 20th centuries that was created  for the compilation of the historical dictionary Le trésor de la langue française.
  
  
• Autour du Romantisme: Le Roman 1792-1882
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/databases/bibliopolis/rom/
  and CD-ROM in ETS
  Large collection of French romantic prose literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.
  
  
• Biblionet: Cent classiques de la literature francaise
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/databases/bibliopolis/biblionet/
  Small searchable collection of classic works of French literature from the major French e-text publisher Bibliopolis.
  
  
• Corpus de la Literature Medievale en langue d’oïl des origins à la fin du XVe  siècle
  CD-ROM in ETS
  Broad searchable collection of French prose, poetry and drama of the Middle Ages.
  
  
• Descartes, René.  Oeuvres completes
  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databases/2804438.html
  English translations of some of these works are available at this same site in the Continental Rationalists collection.
  
  
• Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/encyc/
  Searchable text of the Encyclopedia produced under the direction of Diderot between 1752 and 1771.
  
  
• French Women Writers
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/FWW/
  Collection of approximately 100 works by French women authors of the 16th through 19th centuries.
  
  
• Proust: oeuvres romanesques completes
  CD-ROM in ETS
  The complete works of the French novelist.
  
  
• Provencal Database
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/databases/PROV/
  Searchable database of 38 works of Provencal poetry.
  
  
• Romanciers réalistes et naturalistes
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/databases/bibliopolis/rrn/
  and CD-ROM in ETS
  Large searchable collection of French realist prose literature of the 19th century.
  
  
• Textes de Français Ancien
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/TLA/
  Searchable database of 14th and 15th century French texts created at the University of Ottawa.
  
  
• Théâtre du Grand Siècle: Corneille, Molière, Racine
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/databases/bibliopolis/tgs/
  and CD-ROM in ETS
  Collected works of the three leading French dramatists of the 17th century.
  
  
• Voltaire Electronique
  http://efts.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/VOLTAIRE/
  and CD-ROM in ETS
  Collected works of the 18th-century philosophe.