Académie des Sciences (France). Index biographique de l'Académie des Sciences du 22 décembre 1666 au 1er octobre 1978. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1979.
Kline Q46 A2 A6 1979

Archives biographiques françaises. Ed. Susan Bradley. London; New York: K.G. Saur, 1988-1990.
SML Reference Fiche B2252

Over 180 original biographical reference works dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Cumulation of all the complete entries in a single alphabetical sequence.

Guide: Index biographiques françaises. Ed. Helen and Barry Dwyer. London; New York: K.G. Saur, 1988-1990.
SML Reference CT1003 +A83 1988 Index (LC)
Provides basic biographical information, a listing of biographical citations, and fiche reference numbers for each individual--a comprehensive biographical dictionary in its own right. In English.

Continued by: Archives biographiques françaises II = Französisches Biographisches Archiv. Neue Folge. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1993-2000.
SML Reference Fiche B3203

Continued by: Archives biographiques françaises jusqu'a 1999. Munich: K.G. Saur Verlag, 2001- .
SML Reference Fiche B4157

Biographical dictionary of French political leaders since 1870. Ed. David S. Bell, Douglas Johnson, and Peter Morris. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1990.
SML Reference DC342 B56 1990

Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne; ou, Histoire, par ordre alphabétique, de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes. Paris: Michaud freres, 1811-62. 85 v.
SML Reference CT143 B56 1811 (LC)

Biography index. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1946/1949- .
SML Reference Z5301 B56 (LC)

Biography Index, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in more than 3,000 periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, some 2,500 current books (annually) of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities. The print volumes cover 1946 to the present, and the online version (see below) covers 1984 to the present.

Biography index. Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson.
Available online to members of the Yale community

Bouyer, Christian. Dictionnaire des reines de France. Paris: Perrin, 1992.
SML Stacks DC36.7 B68 1992

Caratini, Roger. Dictionnaire des personnages de la Révolution. Paris: Le pre aux clercs, 1988.
SML Reference DC147 C37 1988
SML Stacks DC147 C37 1988

Dictionnaire biographique français contemporain. 2 ed., 1954-55. Paris: Pharos, 1954.
SML Stacks DC406 D5

"A dictionary of contemporary French biography, with an index by profession, society membership, etc. Bibliographies are usually given of works by a writer, but only occasionally are works about a person listed." (Sheehy AJ199)

Dictionnaire de biographie française. Ed. J. Balteau, M. Barroux, M. Prévost. Paris: Letouzey et Ane, 1933-1998.
SML Reference CT143 +D53 (LC)

"An important dictionary of national biography; planned to be a much more extensive work than the corresponding dictionaries of English and American biography. Articles, are signed with the writers' names, and nearly all have bibliographies, some of which are very extensive." (Sheehy AJ194)

Dictionnaire des maréchaux de France: du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Paris: Perrin, 1988.
SML Stacks DC44.8 D537 1988

Biographies of c.350 miltary figures. Dictionnaire des ministres de 1789 à 1989. Paris: Perrin, 1990.
SML Reference JN2681 D53X 1990 (LC)

Dictionnaire national des communes de France. Paris: A. Michel, 1892- .
SML Stacks DC14 D54 [Latest volume in Reference]

Dictionnaire national des contemporains: contenant les notices... de toutes les personalités vivantes, françaises ou demeurant en France, qui se sont fait connaître... Paris: Office General d'Education, 1899-1906. 5 v.
SML Microform Film B2852 1

Supplemented by: Dictionnaire national des contemporains: contenant les notices... de toutes les personnalités vivantes, françaises ou demeurant en France, qui se sont fait connaître...: Supplément. Paris: Office General d'Edition, 1914-1918.
SML Microform Film B2852 2

Dittmar, Gérald. Dictionnaire biographique illustre de la commune de Paris de 1871. Paris : Dittmar, 2004.
SML DC317 .D577X 2004

Dictionnaire de Parlementaires (1789-1889)

Fierro, Alfred. Bibliographie analytique des biographies collectives impriméees de la France contemporaine (1789-1985). Geneva: Slatkine, 1986.
SML Reference Z5305 F8 F54 (LC)

"A bibliography of collective biographies of French figures of the 1789-1985 period. More than 2,500 citations, many with brief descriptive notes, are arranged in three main sections: (1) general works of collective biography subdivided by period; (2) biographical works grouped by profession (with chronological and other subdivisions as appropriate); and (3) works of local and regional coverage. Index of authors and titles." (Sheehy Supp. AJ53)

Joly, Bertrand. Dictionnaire biographique et géographique du nationalisme français (1880-1900): boulangisme, ligue des patriotes, mouvements antidreyfusards, comités antisémites. Paris: H. Champion, 1998.
SML Stacks DC342.1 J65 1998

Jourquin, Jacques. Dictionnaire des maréchaux du Premier Empire: dictionnaire analytique, statistique et comparé des vingt-six maréchaux. Fourth revised and expanded edition. Paris: Christian/JAS, c1999.
SML Stacks DC198 A1 J68 1999

Labarre de Raillicourt, Dominique. Nouveau dictionnaire des biographies françaises et étrangères. Paris: D. Labarre de Raillicourt, 1961- .
SML Stacks CT143 L33 (LC)

Lentz, Thierry. Dictionnaire des ministres de Napoléon: Dictionnaire analytique statistique et comparé des trente-deux ministres de Napoléon. Paris: Christian/JAS, 1999.
SML Stacks DC202.5 L46 1999

Maitron, Jean. Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français. Paris: Editions ouvrieres, 1964-1996.
MUDD Ndv95 F6 964M

Mayeur, Jean Marie and Yves-Marie Hilaire. Dictionnaire du monde religieux dans la France contemporaine. Vol. 9, Les sciences religieuses. Paris: Beauchesne, 1996.
SML Reference BR846.3 M39 1985 (LC)

Biographical dictionary of 19th-century figures who contributed to the development of sciences religieuses in this period.

Nouveau dictionnaire national des contemporains. Paris: 1961-1968. 5 v.
LSF DC412 +N68

Robert, Adolphe and Gaston Cougny. Dictionnaire des parlementaires français comprenant tous les membres des Assemblées françaises et tous les ministres français depuis le 1er mai 1789 jusqu'au 1er mai 1889: avec leurs noms, état civil, états de services, actes politiques, votes parlementaires, etc. Slatkine Reprints, 2000. 5 v.
SML Stacks JN2771 D53 2000 (LC)
SML Microform Film B3151

Reprint: Originally published Paris, 1889-1891.

Continued by: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français; notices biographiques sur les ministres, sénateurs et députés français de 1889 à 1940. Ed. Jean Jolly. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1960-1977. 8 v. in 5.
SML Reference JN2785 D53 (LC)

Continued by: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français: notices biographique sur les parlementaires français de 1940 à 1958. Paris: Documentation francaise, 1988-1994.
SML Stacks JN2786 D53 1988 (LC) Six, Georges. Dictionnaire biographique des généraux & amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Empire (1792-1814). Paris: G. Saffroy, 1934. 2 v.
SML Reference DC151 S59

Who's who in France. Paris: J. Lafitte, 1955- .
SML Stacks DC705 A1 W46 [1957/58-1975/76]
SML Stacks DC705 A1 +W46 [1953/54, 1977/78- . Latest volume in Reference]

A note on the annotations:

Balay = Guide to reference books. Edited by Robert Balay. 11th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.
Shelved at Reference Desk

Sheehy = Guide to reference books. Edited by Eugene P. Sheehy. 10th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1986.
Shelved at Reference Desk