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French History Research Guide
PRIMARY SOURCES

A. PRINTED SOURCES

1. BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES

Bertier de Sauvigny, Guillaume de. Bibliographie critique des mémoires sur Restauration écrits ou traduits en français. Genève: Droz, 1988.
SML Stacks Z2178 B47 1988 (LC)

Franklin, Alfred. Les sources de l'histoire de France. Notices bibliographiques et analytiques des inventaires et des recueils de documents relatifs à l'histoire de France. Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1877.
SML Stacks Z2176 F73 (LC)
LSF Z2176 F73 (LC)

Houghton Library. Mazarinades: a catalogue of the collection of 17th-century French civil war tracts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Ed. James E. Walsh. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1976.
SML Reference Z2181 M47 H33 1976 (LC)

Lindsay, Robert O. Mazarinades: a checklist of copies in major collections in the United States. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972.
Beinecke Reference Z2181 M47 L5 (LC)

Monod, Gabriel. Bibliographie de l'histoire de France. Catalogue méthodique et chronologique sources et des ouvrages relatifs à l'histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'en 1789. Paris: Hachette et cie, 1888.
SML Reference Z2176 M65 (LC)
SML, Andrews History Study (Room 214-215) X567 888M
Useful guide to collections of primary sources listed according to general as well as regional categories, types of documents as well as subject and period. Valuable for lists of regional learned society series which often published the edited documents vital for local and regional history.

Moreau, C. Bibliographie des mazarinades. Publiée pour la société de l'histoire de France. New York: Burt and Franklin, 1965. 3 v.
SML Reference Z2181 M47 M67 1966 (LC)
SML Reference Z2181 M47 M67 1966 Supplement (LC)
Reprint of the edition published in Paris, 1850-1851.
Supplement is a reprint of the 4 supplements issued by Moreau in the Bulletin du bibliophile, 15. sér., 1862; by Ph. Van der Haeghen in Bulletin du bibliophile belge, 1859; by E. Socard in Cabinet historique, t.22, 1876; and by E. Labadie in Bulletin du bibliophile, 1903-1904.

Newberry Library. A checklist of French political pamphlets, 1560-1644, in the Newberry Library. Chicago, IL: The Newberry Library, 1950.
SML Reference Z2174 P2 N48 (LC)

Supplemented by: -----. A second checklist of French political pamphlets, 1560-1653, in the Newberry Library. Chicago, IL: The Newberry Library, 1955.
SML Reference Z2174 P2 N48 Suppl. (LC)

Les sources de l'histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'en 1815. Ed. A. Molinier et al. Paris: Picard, 1901-1935. 18 v.
SML Reference Z2176 S69 (LC)
SML, Andrews History Study (Room 214-215) X567 901
Part 1: Des origines aux guerres d'Italie. 6 v.
Part 2: Le XVIe siècle (1494-1610). 4 v.
Part 3: Le XVIIe siècle (1610-1715). 8 v.
"A valuable bibliography listing printed sources. The volumes to cover the period 1715-1815 were never published." (Sheehy DC138)

Updated by: Les sources de l'histoire de France des origines a la fin du XVe siecle. Paris: Editions A. et J. Picard, 1971- .
SML Reference Z2176 S753 (LC)

Stein, Henri. Bibliographie générale des cartulaires français ou relatifs a l'histoire de France. Manuels de bibliographie historique, IV. Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1907.
SML Reference Z2178 S85 (LC)

Tulard, Jean. Bibliographie critique des mémoires sur le Consulat et l'Empire, écrits ou traduits en français. Hautes études médiévales et modernes, 13. Geneva: Droz, 1971.
SML Stacks Z2179 T85 (LC)

-----. Nouvelle bibliographie critique des mémoires sur l'époque napoléonienne, écrits ou traduits en français. New revised and expanded edition. Hautes études médiévales et modernes, 67. Geneva: Droz, 1991.
SML Stacks Z2179 T85X 1991 (LC)

2. COLLECTIONS OF PRINTED SOURCE DOCUMENTS

See also:
Subject Bibliographies by Period: Revolution

Anderson, Frank Maloy. The constitutions and other select documents illustrative of the history of France, 1789-1907. Second revised and enlarged edition. Minneapolis, MN: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908.
SML Stacks Bo3A 904Ab
SML Microform Film B13040:1

Berville, Saint-Albin and F. Barrière. Collection des mémoires relatifs à la Révolution française. Paris: Baudouin, 1821-1839. 65 v.
SML Stacks Bo61 5-37
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.
Titles in the collection are also listed in Caron, Pierre. Manuel pratique pour l'etude de la revolution francaise 1940-1988, p. 74ff.

Bibliothèque des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France pendant le XVIIIe siècle. Ed. François Barrière and M. de Lescure. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1846-1881. 37 v.
SML Stacks Bo41 350
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.
Titles in the collection are also listed in Caron, Pierre. Manuel pratique pour l'etude de la revolution francaise 1940-1988, p. 77.

Bibliotheque d'histoire revolutionnaire. Paris: Societe des etudes robespierristes, 1911- .
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.
Titles in the collection are also listed in Caron, Pierre. Manuel pratique pour l'etude de la revolution francaise 1940-1988, p. 80.

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part I, From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War. Series F, Europe, 1848-1914. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1987-1991.
SML Stacks JX632 +B7475 1987 (LC)
Vols. 9-13 cover France, 1847-1913; vols. 31-32 cover the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871.

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part II, From the First to the Second World War. Series F, Europe, 1919-1939. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1990-1996.
SML Stacks JX632 +B7488X 1990 (LC)
Vols. 16-23 cover France, March 1919-January 1940.

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part II, From the First to the Second World War. Series H, The First World War, 1914-1918. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1989- .
SML Stacks D621 G7 B758 1989

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part II, From the First to the Second World War. Series I, the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1989-1991.
SML Stacks D645 B73 1989+

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part III, From 1940 through 1945. Series F, Europe. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1997- .
SML Stacks JZ632 +B766X 1997 (LC)

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part III, From 1940 through 1945. Series L, World War II and general. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1998. 5 v.
SML Stacks JZ632 +B7694X 1998 (LC)

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part IV, From 1945 through 1950. Series F, Europe 1946-1947. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 2000- .
SML Stacks JZ632 +B7753 2000 (LC)

Buchon, J.A.C. Choix de chroniques et mémoires sur l'histoire de France. Paris: A. Desrez, 1836- .
LSF Bo3 0355

Centre d'études de la révolution française, Paris. Cahiers de la révolution française. Paris: Sirey, 1934- .
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.

Chartes et diplômes relatifs à l'histoire de France. Paris: Impr. nationale, 1908- .
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.

Classiques de la révolution française. Paris: A. Colin, 1931- .
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.
Titles in the collection are also listed in Caron, Pierre. Manuel pratique pour l'etude de la revolution francaise 1940-1988, p. 79.

Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France. Paris: Ministere de l'Instruction publique, 1835- .
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series and its several sub-series.
Over 300 volumes containing chronicles, cartularies,correspondance, reports, instructions, and revolutionary, philological, philosophical, juridical, and archeological documents.

Collection de documents relatifs à l'histoire de Paris pendant la révolution française. Paris: Quantin, 1888-1907.
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.
Titles in the collection are also listed in Caron, Pierre. Manuel pratique pour l'etude de la revolution francaise 1940-1988, p. 46.

Commune de Paris. Procès-verbaux de la Commune de 1871. Paris: E. Leroux, 1924.
SML Stacks Bo77 4

France. Commission de publication des documents relatifs aux origines de la guerre 1939-1945. Documents diplomatiques français, 1932-1939. Paris: Impr. nationale, 1963-1986. 2 v. in 32.
SML Stacks D741 F73
First series 1932-1935; second series 1936-1939.

Continued by: Documents diplomatiques français. Paris: Impr. nationale, 1987- .
SML Stacks DC404 D62

-----. Commission d'histoire économique et sociale de la révolution française. Collection de documents inedits sur l'histoire économique de la révolution française. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1906- .
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.
Titles in the collection are also listed in Caron, Pierre. Manuel pratique pour l'étude de la révolution française 1940-1988, p. 32.

French Revolution Documents. Ed. J. M. Roberts and R. C. Cobb. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966-1973. 2 v.
SML Stacks DC141 R63
French texts with preface and notes in English.

Histoire générale de Paris. Paris: Service des travaux historiques de la ville de Paris, 1866- .
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.

Maurepas, Arnaud de and Florent Brayard. XVIIIe siècle: les français vus par eux-mêmes; anthologie des mémorialistes du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Laffont, 1996.
SML Stacks DC33.4 A17 1996

Mémoires et documents (Société de l'école des chartes (France)). Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1896- .
SML Stacks DC1 P37

Nouvelle collection des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1836- .
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.

Petitot, M. Collection complète des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France. Paris: Foucault, 1822.
SML Stacks Bo3 15
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.

Publications de la Société de l'histoire de la guerre.
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series.

Recueil des historiens de la France. Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
Searching in Orbis under the series name produces a list of titles in this series and its several sub-series.

Recueil des instructions données aux ambassadeurs et ministres de France depuis les traités de Westphalie jusqu'a la révolution française. Paris: F. Alcan, 1884- .
SML Stacks Bo49 25

Societe de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile-de-France. Paris: H. Champion.
SML Stacks Bo94 15

Stewart, John Hall. A documentary survey of the French Revolution. New York: Macmillan, 1951.
CCL DC141.7 S74
Key documents in English aranged by phases (consituent assmebly, Terror, etc.) Useful commentary; index.

Thompson, J.M. French Revolution: documents, 1789-94. Oxford: Blackwell, 1933.
CCL DC141 T46
Key documents in French all arranged chronologically. 3. NEWSPAPERS

Albert, Pierre. Documents pour l'histoire de la presse nationale aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Paris: Centre de documentation sciences humaines, 1977.
SML Stacks PN5177 +A4
In two parts: statistical tables of publication data for newspapers and journals between 1803 and 1944, and an essay on correspondents from the regional papers for the Parisian press.

Dictionnaire des journalistes: 1600-1789. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999. 2 v.
SML Reference PN4820 .D5 1999+ Oversize

Dictionnaire des journaux, 1600-1789. Paris: Universitas, 1991. 2 v.
SML Reference Z6956 F8 D527 1991 (LC)+ Oversize

Hatin, Louis Eugène. Histoire du journal en France 1631-1853. Second revised and expanded edition. Paris: P. Jannet, 1853.
SML Stacks Ham34 846hb

-----. Histoire politique et littéraire de la presse en France. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise, 1859-61. 8 v.
SML Stacks Ham34 859h

Journaux de la periode de la commune. Paris: A.C.R.P.P.
SML Microform Film An J8275
A collection of newspapers published in Paris, 1871. For titles included see holdings cards in main card catalog.

Journaux éphémères de la période de la révolution. Paris: A.C.R.P.P., 1967.
SML Microform Film S1271
SML Microform Film S1272
Guide: SML Microform DC140 J68 (LC)

Journaux éphémères 1848-1849. Paris: A.C.R.P.P.
SML Microform Film S882
A collection of periodicals published in Paris in 1848 and 1849. For titles included see holdings cards in main card catalog.

Le Monde. Index. Reading, England: Research Publications, 1988- . Monthly.
SML Reference, Index Case AI21 M547 (LC)+
A detailed subject index with brief annotations, referring to date, page, and column. Lists reviews by type (livre, film, etc.). (Balay AE120)
Covers 1969- . Earlier years are indexed by Index Analytique (see below).

Le Monde. Index analytique. Paris: Le Monde, 1967-80. Irregular.
SML Reference, Index Case AI21 M55 (LC)+
SML Stacks A93 M744
Years indexed: 1944-1951, 1958, 1965-1968.

Pluet-Despatin, Jacqueline. La presse trotskiste en France de 1926 à 1968: essai bibliographique. Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1978.
SML Stacks Z6956 F8 P58 (LC)

Le temps. Paris: Imp. Schiller, 1861-1942. 82 v.
SML Microform Film An T24

Guide: Institut français de presse. Section d'histoire. Tables du journal Le Temps. Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1966- .
SML Reference, Index Case AI21 T45 (LC)

Yale University. Library. Newspaper Holdings. Part I: Albania - Zimbabwe (excluding USA and British Isles). New Haven: 1992.
Available at the Reference Desk and at the service desk in the Microform Room. Contains a list of all newspapers published in France held by the Yale Libraries, with the exception of those held at the Beinecke Library, those bound and in the Sterling stacks, and those which may appear as part of microform collections, pp. 150-281.

4. PRINTED DOCUMENTATION ON CONTEMPORARY FRANCE

L'année... dans Le Monde. Paris: Gallimard.
SML Stacks DL423 A52

Baleste, Marcel. L'économie française. Eleventh edition. Paris: Masson, 1991.
SML Stacks HC276.2 B26 1991 (LC)

Bulletin analytique de documentation politique, économique et sociale contemporaine. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1946- .
SML Stacks Xn11 +B94 [1946-1969]
SML Stacks Xn11 B94 [1970- . Current issues in Periodical Reading Room, Section 5]

Les cahiers français. Paris: La documentation française, 1965- .
SML Stacks DC398 C36+ [Current issues in Periodical Reading Room, Section 5]
Covers current social and economic issues.

Les chiffres clés de l'industrie dans les régions. Paris: SESSI, 1989- .
SML Stacks HC271 C49 (LC)

Contours et caracteres. Paris: INSEE.
Good series on current socio-economic and political topics. Volumes catalogued individually; selected topics include:

Agriculteurs, portrait social, 1993.
SML Stacks HD 8039 F32 F18X 1993 (LC)

Enfants de moins de 6 ans, 1992.
SML Stacks HQ 792 F7 E547 1992 (LC)

Etrangers en France, portrait social, 1994.
SML Stacks HD 8438 A2 E77X 1994 (LC)

Familles monoparentales, 1994.
SML Stacks HQ759.915 F35X 1994 (LC)

Femmes, 1991.
SML Stacks HQ 1613 F44X 1991 (LC)

Personnes agees, 1990.
SML Stacks HQ 1064 F7 P47X 1990 (LC)

Villes et campagnes, 1988.
SML Stacks HA 1224 V55X 1988 (LC)

Daily report. West Europe. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. National Technical Information Service, 1987-
Social Science Library paper copy [3 most recent years only] shelved in FBIS Room
Government Documents Center Fiche and CD-ROM Index
English translations of news events from foreign press. Dictionnaire: histoire, economie, finance, geographie: hommes, faites, mecanismes, entreprises, concepts. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1995.
SML Stacks HB61 D515X 1995 (LC)

Eléments de géostratégie et défense de la France. Paris: Association des profésseurs d'histoire et de géographie; Service d'information et de relations publiques des Armées, 1995.
SML Stacks UA700 +E54 1995 (LC)

L'Etat de la France. Paris: Editions La Découverte, 1992- .
SML Stacks HC276.3 E86 (LC)
This excellent annual offers a summary of the current state of affairs in France. Areas covered include politics, the economy, social conditions, the family, education, employment, health, recreation, and more. It also covers the individual regions of France. The book includes many useful statistical tables, maps and charts, and a chronology. Etat de la francophonie dans le monde. Paris: La documentation francaise, 1986- .
SML Stacks PC2002 R36 1986

L'executif en France. Paris: Compaigne europeene d'editions et publications periodiques, 1992,1994-
SML Stacks JN 2687 E93 (LC) [Latest in Reference]
Biographies of French cabinet members and ministers. France and EC membership evaluated. Ed. Francois Dreyfus and Jacques Morizet. London: Pinter Publisher; New York: St, Martin's Press, 1993.
SML Stacks HC241.25 F8 F69X 1993 (LC)

La France et ses regions. Paris: Insee, 1988- .
SML Stacks HC271 F735 (LC) [Library has 1990, 1993]

Journal de l'année. Paris: Larousse, 1966/67- .
SML Stacks D410 J65
This yearbook provides chronologies and summaries of the most important events of the past year. It covers all major countries, but emphasizes France. Areas covered include politics, social issues, the economy, science and technology, culture, and sports. Some statistics are included.
Panoramiques. Condé-sur-Noireau: Arléa-Corlet.
SML Stacks AP20 P36 (LC)
Good series on special topics. Selected topics include:
Ailleurs, l'herbe est plus verte : histoire des migrations dans le monde.
Les ambiguites de l'humanitaire : de saint Vincent de Paul aux french doctors.
Comment peut-on etre franc-macon?
Depassees, les valeurs catholiques?
Et alors, l'ONU?
Existe-t-il des reservoirs d'emplois?
Formation : la fin d'un mythe?
Jeunesses d'en France.
Pour une mort plus douce.
Le pouvoir médical.
Psychanalyse: cent ans de divan.
Rural: une carte pour la France.
La société française au miroir de son cinéma: de la débâcle à la décolonisation.
Sources de l'ecologie politique.
Sur le quai: (la vie dans le metro parisien).
Picq, Jean. L'etat en France: Servir une nation ouverte sur le monde. Paris: La documentation francaise, 1995.
SML Stacks JN2451 P52 1995 (LC)
Report to Prime Minister.
Le repertoire de l'administration française. Paris: La documentation francaise.
SML Stacks JN 2303 R46 (LC) [Latest --53rd edition (1995) -- in Reference]
Names and addresses of governemnt offices, departments, and officials. B. MICROFORMAT

Europe and NATO: special studies, 1970-1980. Edited by Paul Kesaris. Frederick, Md. : University Publications of America, 1982. (The Special studies series)
Microform Film B14829

Supplemented by: Europe and NATO: special studies, 1980-1985 : supplement. Edited by Michael Davis. Frederick Md. : University Publications of America, 1986.
Microform Film B14828

Europe and NATO: special studies, 1985-1988 : supplement. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1989. (Foreign nations, the Special studies series)
Microform Film B14827

Europe and NATO: special studies, 1989-1991 : supplement. Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, 1992. (Foreign nations, the Special studies series)
Microform Film B14826

Europe and NATO: special studies, 1992-1994 : supplement. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1995.
Microform Film B18871

French political pamphlets (microform): from collections in the Newberry Library. Wooster, OH: Micro Photo Division, Bell & Howell, 1968.
Microform Film B5012

French political pamphlets, 1547-1648. New Haven: Research Publications, 1978- .
Microform Film B2993
The target numbers in this project were based on the item numbers in: Robert O. Lindsay, French political pamphlets, 1547-1648; a catalog of major collections in American libraries (see below). Some pamphlets identified with the Lindsay numbers were not available for inclusion. See Lindsay for contents, index and reel numbers .
Lindsay, Robert O. French Political Pamphlets, 1547-1648 ; A Catalog of Major Collections in American Libraries. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.
Reference Z2177.5 L55 (LC)
Microform Reference Z2177.5 L55 (LC)

French Political Pamphlets, 1547-1648 : A Supplement : Listing the Microform Additions to the Original Edition. Comp. Robert O. Lindsay, John Neu. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1981.
Microform Reference Z2177.5 L55 Suppl (LC)+

New York Public Library. French revolutionary pamphlets: a check list of the Talleyrand and other collections. Washington, DC: NCR Microcard Editions, [1950?].
Microform Fiche B1327
Guide: Microform Reference Z2178 N47 (LC)

The papers of Queen Victoria on foreign affairs, 1841-1900. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1993.
Microform Film MISC 1212
Part 5 of the six parts covers France and Belgium, 1848-1900 (12 reels).
Guide: Microform Reference DA550 +V524 1993

United States. Dept. of State. Confidential U.S. State Department central files: France: foreign affairs, 1945-1949 (inclusive).
Microform Film MISC 1307
The records consist of telegrams, airgrams, instructions, inquiries, studies, memoranda, situation reports, translations, special reports, plans, and official and unofficial correspondence.

Continued by: United States. Dept. of State. Confidential U.S. State Department central files: France: foreign affairs, 1950-1954 (inclusive).
Microform Film MISC 1359
The records consist of telegrams, airgrams, instructions, inquiries, studies, memoranda, situation reports, translations, special reports, plans, and official and unofficial correspondence. Also included are State Department internal documentation, correspondence between the Department and other federal departments and agencies, Congress, and private individuals and organizations. These records document France's relations with the United States and other nations.

Supplemented by: United States. Dept. of State. Confidential U.S. State Department central files: France: internal affairs: part I: political, governmental, and national defense affairs, 1945-1949 (inclusive).
Microform Film MISC 1356
These records document France's political system, government, judiciary, laws, and military.

United States. Dept. of State. Confidential U.S. State Department central files: France: internal affairs: part I: political, governmental, and national defense affairs, 1950-1954 (inclusive).
Microform Film MISC 1358
The records document France's political system, government, judiciary, laws, and military.

United States. Dept. of State. Confidential U.S. State Department central files: France: internal affairs: part II: social, economic, industrial, communication, transportation, and science,1945-1949 (inclusive).
Microform Film MISC 1357
These records document France's customs, economy, finance, agriculture, natural resources, industry, communications, transportation, and media.

University of Pennsylvania. Library. Maclure collection of French revolutionary materials: a reel index to the microfilm edition of the Maclure French Revolutionary Collection housed at the University of Pennsylvania Library. New Haven, CT: Research Publications, 1972.
Microform Reference Z2178 +P45 1972 (LC)

C. ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND IMAGES

ARTFL Project, University of Chicago. Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, University of Chicago.
Available online to members of the Yale community
The ARTFL project and datebase are described at this site. At present the corpus 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. Genres include novels, verse, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data include page references to these editions.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Document From Western Europe --Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
Selected documents include:
Declaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen (1789; transcription of French original) Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789; English translation)
Post-Commune France: A Narrative Letter of Jenny Marx (Karl's daughter) (1871; transcription)
French responses to Germany's invasion of Poland (Sept. 1939; translations)
Yalta Conference Agreement (February 1945; transcription)
Paris libere --The liberation of Paris (25 August 1945; transcriptions, facsimiles, and a map)
Preambule de la constitution du 27 Octobre 1946 -- Provisional preamble to a constitution (27 October 1946; transcription)
Constitution francaise de la Cinquieme Republique -- Constitution of the Fifth Republic (4 October 1958; transcription) French Constitution (4 October 1958, amendments to 25 June 1992; English translation).
Texte de la loi Toubon (1994 regulations on French language usage; transcription)
Historical Maps of Paris (GIF-files)

French Revolutionary Pamphlets.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/mark/fr_rev.html
This site is an experiment in rare document distribution. Texts include:
[L'Abbe de Cournaud], De la Propriete, ou La Cause du Pauvre, Plaidee au Tribunal de la Raison, de la Justice et de la Verite. (Paris, Rue Jacob, vis-a-vis celle S. Benoit, Faubourg Saint-Germain, No. 29, 1791).

[Sylvain Marechal], Dame Nature a la Barre de l'Assemblee Nationale. (Paris, Chez les Marchands de Nouveautes, 1791).

M. Dufourny de Villiers, Cahiers du quatrieme ordre celui des pauvres journaliers, des Infirmes, des Indigens... ([Paris], 25 avril, 1789).

Gallica. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
http://gallica.bnf.fr
80,000 digitized documents including texts and images, monographs and periodicals covering the Middle Ages to the 19th century.
Great literature. Los Angeles, CA: Updata, 19??-
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center CD-ROM PN6014 G74 1992 (Inquire at Reference Desk)
Contains 2,000 works of literature including some by French authors such as Voltaire, Descartes, and Tocqueville.

 

Imaging the French Revolution
An introduction to the French Revolution and an archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.

 

Northwestern University Library. Special Collections. The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871.
http://www.library.nwu.edu:80/spec/siege/
This WWW page contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris ca. 1871. In addition to the images in this set, the Library's Siege and Commune Collection contains 1500 caricatures, 68 newspapers in hard-copy and film, hundreds of books and pamphlets and about 1000 posters. Additions are made regularly. The originals are located in Special Collections in the Deering Library at Northwestern University.

Le Monde diplomatique
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/index.html
Access to the archives of the Monde diplomatique, which contain issues from Jan. 1994 - Aug. 1995. Indexed by month, by subject. "Le Monde diplomatique publie chaque mois des etudes de fond sur les evenements politiques, economiques, sociaux et culturels en France et a l'etranger".

Past masters. Charlottesville, VA: InteLex Corp., 1998- .
Available online to members of the Yale community
Full-text, searchable versions of many important philosophical writings, including such authors as Descartes and Rousseau. Access restricted to the Yale community.

D. MANUSCRIPT AND ARCHIVAL SOURCES

1. GENERAL GUIDES

Archives contemporaines et histoire : journees d'etude de la direction des archives de France Vincennes, 28-29 novembre 1994. Paris: Archives nationales, 1995.
SML Stacks CD1191 A76X 1995 (LC)

Archives nationales (France). Etat des inventaires. Paris : Archives nationales : Diffuse par La Documentation francaise, 1985- .
Reference CD1196 1985 (LC)

-----. Guide du lecteur. Fourth edition. Paris: Archives nationale, 1985.
Reference CD1193 F8 1985 (LC)

Updated by: -----. Guide du lecteur. Sixth Edition. Paris: Archives nationales, 1993.
Reference CD1193 F8 1993 (LC)

-----. Inventaire sommaire et tableau methodique des fonds conserves aux archives nationales. 1 ptie., Regime anterieur a 1789. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1871.
SML Stacks Bo3 0342 1
Microform Film B13013

-----. Les inventaires des Archives nationales [microform]. Paris: Chadwyck- Healey France, 1988- .
Microform Fiche B2255

The set reproduces more than 700 finding aids -- lists of contents -- to important collections of the Archives Nationales de Paris; most (95%) have never been published before. The guide lists the finding aids by the series in which they belong in the Archives, and indexes every finding aid by name of collection, names of persons appearing in each finding aid, subject, and institutional origin. It also contains a history of the collections, an introduction to the use of the Archives Nationales, and a bibliography of research guides.

Guide: Carbonnel, Isabelle. Guide de l'utilisateur des inventaires des Archives nationales. Paris: Chadwyck-Healey France, 1988.
Microform Reference CD1196 C37 1990 (LC)

Supplemented by: Archives nationales (France). Les inventaires des Archives nationales [microform]. Supplement. Paris: Chadwyck-Healey France, 1992.
Microform Fiche B3934

Les archives publiques en France, au 30 juin 1992. Paris: Archives nationales, 1992.
SML Stacks CD1190 A73X 1992 (LC)

Blanc, Brigitte. La seconde guerre mondiale: guide des sources conservees en France, 1939-1945. Paris : Archives nationales, 1994.
SML Stacks Z6207 W8 B57 1994 (LC)

Chauleur, Andre. Bibliotheques et archives: comment se documenter?: Guide pratique a l'usage des etudiants, des professeurs, des documentalistes et archivistes, des chercheurs... Second edition. Paris: Economica, 1980.
Reference Z797 A1 C47 1980 (LC)

Direction des archives de France (Paris). Les religions et leurs archives : Enjeux d'aujourd'hui. Journées d'étude de la direction des archives de France, Paris, collège de France, 11-12 mars 1999. Paris : Direction des archives de France, 2001.
CD1218.A2 D57X 2001 (LC)

Dore, Robert. Etat des inventaires et repertoires des archives nationales, departementales, communales et hospitalieres de la France a la date du 1er decembre 1919. Paris: E. Champion, 1919.
SML Stacks CD1196 1919 (LC)

Etat des inventaires des archives départementales, communales et hospitalières au 1er janvier 1983. Paris: Archives nationales, 1984. 2v.
Reference CD1192 A2 E72 1984 (LC)

Langlois, Charles Victor. Les archives de l'histoire de France. Manuels de bibliographie historique I. Paris: A. Picard, 1891 [1893].
SML stacks Bo1 25
Microform Film B1303:5
In 3 parts: 1. Les archives de l'histoire de France en France. 2. Les archives de l'histoire de France a l' etranger. 3. Les archives de l'histoire de France dans les bibliotheques de manuscrits.

La Recherche historique en archives: XIXe et XXe siècles, de 1789 à nos jours. Gap, France: Ophrys, c1996.
SML Stacks DC33 R386 1996
Covering the period from 1789 to the present, this manual is an excellent introduction to the organization of contemporary archives, libraries and documentation centers as well as to major collections and different types of documents. Emphasizes methodology, problems of documentation and interpretation. Contains technical information, glossary, addresses, and brief bibliography for each chapter.
La recherche historique en archives: XVIe-XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles. Gap: Ophrys, c1993.
SML Stacks DC33 R385X 1993
A practical guide and introduction to the archives of the ancien régime. Covers archival services (major repositories, classification systems, guides and research tools); archival collections of many types; types of acts and documents with historical interpretive possibilities; obstacles to using archives (language, dating, paleography, symbols, etc.). Each topic and subtopic has a short bibliography. Welsch, Erwin K. Libraries and archives in France: with 1991 supplement. New York : Council for European Studies, 1991, 1979.
Reference Z797 A1 +W44 1991 (LC)

2. GUIDES TO SPECIFIC COLLECTIONS OR TYPES OF RECORDS

Archives de guerre 1940-1944. Paris: Institut national de l'audiovisuel, 1996.
SML Stacks D802 F8 A68 1996

Archives de la présidence de la République. Ve République: Georges Pompidou, 19 juin 1969- 2 avril 1974. Paris: Archives nationales, 1996.
SML Stacks DC421 +A73 1996

Archives Nationales. (France). Archives du général de Gaulle, 1940-1958 : la France libre : la France combattante : le gouvernement provisoire de la République française : les années 1946-1958 / Archives nationales ; [inventaire établi par Brigitte Blanc ... et al.]. Paris: Centre historique des Archives nationales, 2003.

SML Stacks DC420 A72 2003+ Oversize (LC)

Archives Nationales. (France). Archives Nationales: Etat General des Fonds. Paris: Archives Nationales, Diffuse par la Documentation Francaise, 1978- .
Reference CD1196 1978 (LC)

-----. Etat des inventaires. Paris: Archives nationales, 1985- .
Reference CD1196 1985 (LC)

-----. Guide des papiers des ministres et secretaires d'etat de 1871 a 1974. Paris: Archives nationales, 1978- .
SML Stacks CD1196 1978B (LC)+

-----. Guide des papiers des ministres et secretaires d'etat de 1871 a 1974. Paris: Archives nationales, 1984.
SML Stacks CD1196 1984 (LC)

-----. Guide des papiers prives d'epoque revolutionnaire. Paris: Archives nationales, 1987.
SML Stacks CD1196 A2 1987 (LC)

-----. Layettes du Trésor des chartes. Reprint ed. 1977.
SML Stacks CD1196 1863 1977 (LC)

-----. Registres du tresor des chartes; inventaires analytique etabli par les archivistes aux Archives nationales sous la direction de Robert Fawtier. Paris: Impr. Nationale, 1958- .
SML Stacks CD1196 1958 (LC)+

Boissonnade, Prosper. Les etudes relatives a l'histoire economique de la revolution francaise (1789-1804). Paris: Librairie Leopold Cerf, 1906
SML Stacks X569 906

Bordier, Henri Leonard. Les archives de la France: ou, histoire des archives de l'empire, des archives des ministeres, des departements, des communes, des hopitaux, des greffes, des notaires, etc., contenant l'inventaire d'une partie de ces depots. Paris: Dumoulin, 1855. [Geneva: Megariotis Reprints, 1978]
SML Stacks CD1191 B673 1978 (LC)

Dartevelle, Raymond and Francoise Hildesheimer. Archives: aux sources de l'histoire des entreprises. Paris: Epargne, 1995.
SML Stacks HF5736 D255X 1995 (LC)

Direction des archives de France. Etat sommaire des papiers de la periode revolutionnaire conserves dans les archives departementales: Serie L. Paris: Impr. Nationale, 1907-1908.
Microform Film B3607

-----. Etat sommaire des versements faits aux archives nationales par les ministeres et les administrations qui en dependent (Serie F, BB justice et AD xix). Nendeln: Kraus Reprint, 1977.
SML Stacks CD1196 1924B (LC)

Dreyfus, Michel. Guide des centres de documentation en histoire ouvriere et sociale. Paris: Editions ouvrieres, 1983- .
SML Stacks Z797 A1 D74 (LC)

Ducret, Anne and Elisabeth Perrier. Justice: les archives contemporaines de l'administration centrale: guide de recherches. Paris: Ministère de la Justice, Direction de l'Administration générale et de l'Equipement, Service des Archives, 1997.
SML Stacks KJV3721 +D83X 1997 (LC)

Les étrangers en France: Guide des sources d'archives publiques et privées, XIXè-XXè siècles. Ed. Pierre-Jacques Derainne, Patrick Veglia. Paris: Génériques/Direction des archives de France (DAF), 1999.
Reference DC34 .D45 1999

Félix, Joël. Economie et finances sous l'Ancien Régime : guide du chercheur, 1523-1789. Paris: Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière, Ministères de l'économie et du budget, c1994.
SML Stacks HC275 F45X 1994 (LC)

France. Archives des affaires étrangères. Inventaire sommaire des archives du Département des affaires étrangères. Mémoires et documents. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1883-96.
Microform Film B13028:1

-----. Archives du Ministere des Affaires Etrangees. Etat numerique des fonds de la correspondance politique de l'origine a 1871. Paris: Imprimarie nationale, 1936.
SML Stacks Bo3 O346

-----. Armée. Service historique. Guide des archives et sources complémentaires. Vincennes: Service historique de l'armee de terre, 1996.
SML Stacks CD1206 A836 F68 1996 (LC)

-----. -----. -----. Inventaire des archives de la guerre, série N, 1920-1940. Vincennes: Ministère de la défense, Etat-major de l'Armée de Terre, Service historique, 1981- .
SML Stacks CD1206 1981 (LC)

Supplemented by: -----. -----. -----. Inventaire des archives de la guerre: supplement de la série N, 1872-1940. Vincennes: Service historique de l'Armée de Terre, 1997- .
SML Stacks CD1206 1981 Suppl. (LC) -----. -----. -----. Inventaire des archives de la guerre, série P, 1940-1946. Vincennes: Service historique de l'Armée de Terre, 1994- .
SML Stacks CD1206.A836 F7X 1994 (LC)

-----. Direction des Archives. Guide des recherches dans les fonds judiciares de l'ancien regime. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1958.
SML Stacks X568 958F

-----. Ministere des affaires etrangeres. Etat general des inventaires des archives diplomatiques. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1987.
SML Stacks CD1201 1987 (LC)

-----. Ministere des affaires exterieures. Archives et documentation. Les archives du Ministere des relations exterieures depuis les origines: histoire et guide: suivis d'une etude des sources de l'histoire des affaires etrangeres dans las depots parisiens et departementaux. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1984-1985.
SML Stacks CD1201 1984 (LC)

-----. Ministère des relations extérieures. Archives et documentation. Les archives du Ministère des relations extérieures depuis les origines: histoire et guide: suivis d'une étude des sources de l'histoire des affaires étrangères dans les d&eacut;e;pôts parisiens et départementaux. Paris: Impr. nationale, 1984-1985.
SML Stacks CD1201 1984 (LC)

Guide des sources de l'histoire des transports publics urbains à Paris et en Ile-de-France XIXe-XXe siècles. Ed. Henri Zuber. Histoire de la France aux XIXe et XXe siècles, 43. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1998.
In process #FME7304

Herelle, Georges. Documents inedits sur les Etats-generaux (1482-1789), tires des Archives de Vitry-le-Francois et publies avec une introduction et des notes. Paris: H. Champion, 1879.
Mudd Op82 879h
Microform Film B12207:3

Maurepas, Arnaud de. Economie et finances au XIXe siècle: guide du chercheur 1789-1870. Paris: Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France, 1998.
SML UNCAT073781

Paravicini, Werner. Das Nationalarchiv in Paris: ein Fuhrer zu den Bestanden aus dem Mittelalter und d. fruhen Neuzeit. Dokumentation Westeuropa, Bd. 4. Munchen; New York; London; Paris: Saur, 1980.
SML Stacks CD1196 1980 (LC)

Pitman, Paul, M. A short guide to the archives of the Quai d'Orsay. Paris: Association des amis des archives diplomatiques, 1993.
SML Stacks CD1201 1993b (LC)

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

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